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

Rua Red

Plás Parthalán, Tallaght
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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art

Higher Diploma in Art

Geraldine Conlon

she/her

Exploring the Domestic

This project is an investigation into the domestic, told through a series of narrative vignettes that form a visual diary of daily life. Each work is adapted from a selection of recognisable inanimate objects found around my home- material artefacts shaped by nostalgic, daily interactions. There is an element of a ‘love-hate’ relationship wrapped in a small moment reverie.

Traditionally, the domestic is usually depicted through scenes of everyday life, with the significance of home as a central theme from lavish interiors to simplistic, homely acts. Here, the randomness of the chosen objects showing through is intentional, invoking sentimentality.

The resulting body of work consists of large and small-scale paintings rendered in acrylic, spray, flashe and craft paints on a selection of board, canvas and paper. There is an underlying humour present in the use of bold colours which then lead into unarranged still lives of the everyday.

Every Little Helps, 40 x 50cm — Every Little Helps, 40 x 50cm

Will we get the Denby out? 25 x 35cm — Will we get the Denby out? 25 x 35cm

Evening Glow, 30 x 80cm — Evening Glow, 30 x 80cm

Hanging Out, 30 x 80cm — Hanging Out, 30 x 80cm

Eye See You, 30 x 80cm — Eye See You, 30 x 80cm

The Sublime Ordinary, 10 x 15.4cm — The Sublime Ordinary, 10 x 15.4cm

Look into the Light 1 & 2, 20 x 20cm — Look into the Light 1 & 2, 20 x 20cm

Wooden Hill, 20 x 30cm — Wooden Hill, 20 x 30cm

Blinding, 30.5 x 23cm — Blinding, 30.5 x 23cm

Concertina book

Research

<p>Notebook process</p> — Notebook process

<p>Notebook process</p> — Notebook process

<p>Notebook process</p> — Notebook process

<p>Indian ink and bleach drawings</p> — Indian ink and bleach drawings

<p>Notebook process</p> — Notebook process