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.

Thomas St Campus

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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

BA Illustration

Hannah McCormack

she/her

Spiral Beyond the Pale

Through a series of otherworldly illustrations, I have reimagined Western Ireland as a place haunted by forgotten folklore and elusive creatures born from the most natural shape there is—the spiral.

Rooted in a deep love for the landscape I grew up in, this work creates a fantasy world to lure urban dwellers out of their cities and into the wild in search of these mythical beings.

At the heart of this project is an illustrated scroll, chronicling four spiral beings that roam this fabled west. Accompanied by a poster campaign, it is designed to inspire the people of Dublin to engage with my brand of mythical tourism. A photographic record of every spiral that I saw in the wild, inspired a mixed-media animation, bringing an organic flow to my explorations.

This project is a call to unravel, to seek, and to spiral outward, towards something wilder, beyond the pale.

Spiral Scroll, deer section — Spiral Scroll, deer section

Spiral Scroll, slug section — Spiral Scroll, slug section

Spiral Scroll, fern section — Spiral Scroll, fern section

Spiral Scroll, snake section — Spiral Scroll, snake section

Hanging scroll

Have You Seen This?, poster series — Have You Seen This?, poster series

Have You Seen This?, poster series — Have You Seen This?, poster series

'Spirals In Nature', mixed media animation

Research

<p>Installing poster campaign</p> — Installing poster campaign