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

100 Thomas Street
Directions

6–14 June

Fri 6 6pm–9pm
Sat 7 10am–5pm
Sun 8 10am–5pm
Mon 9 10am–8pm
Tue 10 10am–8pm
Wed 11 10am–8pm
Thu 12 10am–8pm
Fri 13 10am–8pm
Sat 14 10am–6pm

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
Directions

7–14 June

Sat 7 June 10am–6pm
Sun 8 June Closed
Mon 9 June 10am–6pm
Tues 10 June 10am–6pm
Wed 11 June 10am–6pm
Thur 12 June 10am–6pm
Fri 13 June 10am–6pm
Sat 14 June 10am–6pm

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art

Lana Jones

she/her

I am Seaweed

My work explores mental health through metaphor, using seaweed as a symbol of the self, both fragile and resilient, grounded and afloat. Through layered intaglio printmaking processes and material experimentation with dried seaweed, fabric, laser cutting, and sound, the work reflects the emotional ebb and flow of healing.

Rooted in personal experience, the work invites viewers to slow down, look inward, and reflect on their relationship with themselves. It speaks to the quiet, non-linear process of healing, offering not solutions but space for reflection and connection.

The work aims to invite acceptance of the self, even the parts we often resist. It responds to the shared human experience of navigating inner emotions and shows that healing isn’t about fighting the tides, but learning to move with them.

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Courage and Embrace, etching — Courage and Embrace, etching

Kindness, etching — Kindness, etching

Breathe, etching — Breathe, etching

Soft Ground Seaweed, etching series — Soft Ground Seaweed, etching series

Refraction, laser cut glass within a water tank on a lightbox — Refraction, laser cut glass within a water tank on a lightbox

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Teaching Placements

St Joseph Secondary School Rush, Co. Dublin
Bremore Educate Together, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Cabra Community College, Dublin 7