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

University Certificate in Visual Art Practice

Joan Maher

she/her

Hole at the Hearth

'Hole at the Hearth' is a series responding to the effects of specific aspects of climate change on small communities. The visual language is inspired by a traditional patchwork block, where strips of light and dark are laid around a central red square representing the 'hearth'. This block comes to mind on the road to the sea through the coastal village of Kilmore Quay in Co. Wexford: a road vertically bounded by dark buildings and meeting the grey tones of sea and sky on the horizontal.

Working with a 'hearth/heart' wordplay, the hole at the centre of these works speaks to the heart being torn out of small communities by sea levels rising (1) and by flood (2).

Texture and three-dimensional form are integral to my work and I create objects that ask to be touched. The work incorporates hand and machine embroidery, and transfer printing- mostly on reused or scrap fabrics.

Hole at the Hearth 1: Sea Level Rising, textiles, 100 x 100cm — Hole at the Hearth 1: Sea Level Rising, textiles, 100 x 100cm

Hole at the Hearth 2: Flood, textiles, 100 x 100cm — Hole at the Hearth 2: Flood, textiles, 100 x 100cm

Research

<p>Sea foam study paint</p> — Sea foam study paint

Sea foam study photography

Sea foam study embroidery

Flood water study photography

Moonlight on water study photography