Professor Sarah Glennie ∙ Director

NCAD WORKS 2025 provides a portal to the full breadth of work by our extraordinary graduates from across our four schools of Fine Art, Design, Education, and Visual Culture and encompasses students graduating from our broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and CEAD programmes.

We are extremely proud of this year’s graduating students who each in different ways demonstrate NCAD’s belief in the vital contribution that creative practice makes to our society as a force that creates space for care, reflection, innovation and new thinking—all of which are essential to a cohesive and dynamic society and economy.

NCAD’s graduates are the pipeline that drive Ireland’s creative and cultural sectors and their work will have an impact across society in years to come.

Their own lived experience of our complex world is central to our graduates’ work. As part of their journey, NCAD students have the opportunity to develop their creative practice beyond the walls of campus through long-term engagements with community partners and collaborators in a range of settings. These collaborations expand their experience and understanding of key societal issues such as housing, cultural identity and social cohesion and climate crises, and are reflected in their final projects.

The work of this generation of NCAD students not only provides critical insights into society today, but also reminds us that the possibility of transformation exists with fresh, solution-focused thinking. Their creativity reinforces the power of art and design to influence and inspire real change.

We hope you enjoy this digital experience of the work of our extraordinary graduates.

We are extremely proud of all that they have achieved, and we look forward to following their creative journeys in the future.

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Courses on show:

BA Fashion
BA Jewellery & Objects
BA Textile & Surface Design
Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
BA Graphic Design
BA Illustration
BA Moving Image Design
BA Interaction Design
BA Product Design
BA Applied Materials
Textile Art & Artefact
Hard Materials (Ceramics & Glass)
Media
Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
BA Visual Culture
MA Interaction Design
Prof. Dip. Service Design

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Plás Parthalán, Tallaght
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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art

Sculpture & Expanded Practice

Elizabeth Bartlett

she/her

Watch(ed) Closely

I have this horrible, nagging feeling that I am being watched at all times.

I often feel the weight of eyes on me in public; observing, cataloguing.

The eyes I can mostly manage. Each pair of eyes is only attached to one body after all.

It’s the lenses I can’t stand.

CCTV, phone cameras, live street webcams…lenses follow me wherever I go, with untold bodies behind screens observing me.

In public, a toilet stall is the only refuge I have from the eyes, and from the lenses.

For someone with such a deep fear of perception, public art is a strange choice.

But with sculpture I can build.

So I will build a room where I can hide, and conceal the videos that the lenses capture of me.

A toilet stall, where no eyes or lenses can follow.

Where I can watch the crowd, without it watching me back.

Installation of box room, pictured is the back of the room, with door, mirror, and cyanotypes of security cameras on the side, 200 x 200 x 200cm

Inside of room, with — Inside of room, with "toilet" seats, sink, and projected security videos. Mirrors on outside revealed to be one-way, with a window on the inside providing a private view of the studio.

The front of the room, with large mirror/window, and cyanotypes on the side

Back of the room with the door open, allowing the video to be seen.

Each cyanotype on the outside of the room is of one of the webcams I recorded through. This one is the webcam on Temple Bar.

Research

<p>Researching live street-webcams. This image shows a live video of Temple Bar, 24/7, accessible to anyone on the internet. There are no signs warning those on the street that their faces are being broadcast online.</p> — Researching live street-webcams. This image shows a live video of Temple Bar, 24/7, accessible to anyone on the internet. There are no signs warning those on the street that their faces are being broadcast online.

<p>Building the room from MDF, rough timber, and perspex</p> — Building the room from MDF, rough timber, and perspex

<p>Assembling the room</p> — Assembling the room

Early cyanotype experiment made while learning the process.

<p>More research on live webcasts. This image is in my local church, and also runs 24/7, accessible to anyone online.</p> — More research on live webcasts. This image is in my local church, and also runs 24/7, accessible to anyone online.