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
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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
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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

Lauren Kelly

she/her

Abortion in the Spotlight

'Abortion in the Spotlight' is a collaborative project by The Performing Activism Collective, run by artist Lauren Kelly. The aim is to highlight what has been working, and what has not worked in the post-Repeal Irish healthcare system. The project has engaged with service users, service providers, students, and educators. Shaped by the research, part of this work will involve a public encounter within the Seanad Éireann. This involves presenting suggested improvements to politicians in the form of a performance.

The Performing Activism Collective was formed in 2023, based in Dublin, Ireland. Made up of working-class women who create transgressive performances to speak back to power, often seen at protests and days of action around Dublin city. This project has been supported by Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts and Creative Ireland South Dublin 2023, in the first stages of the project's research.

'Abortion in the Spotlight' workshop experimental video. ‘Activating objects’ is a creative writing piece read by workshop participants. The voice description is by another workshop participant. Consent has been given by all participants involved to use the material in this short piece.

Research

<p><em>Abortion in the Spotlight</em> <em>Manifesto on Care 2024</em> by The Performing Activism Collective</p>

Abortion in the Spotlight Manifesto on Care 2024 by The Performing Activism Collective