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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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

Painting

Lucy Tarmey

she/her

Yesterdays Light on Today's Floor, Lace and the Landless

Lucy Tarmey is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting and crochet to explore the fragile and shifting nature of ‘home’. Her work reflects on personal and collective experiences of displacement and belonging.

She approaches ‘home’ as a fluid and unstable concept that is constantly shifting and, for many, devastatingly out of reach. Her practice is informed by the ongoing housing crisis and the global consequences of war, using art to reflect on the fragility of domestic stability.

She draws from Irish history, particularly the role of crochet lace as a survival tool during the famine, to examine domesticity and times of crisis.

In her paintings, ephemeral figures occupy transient spaces, while objects anchor the paintings in the present, becoming an entry point for the viewer. Her paintings exist outside of a fixed time, where the past bleeds into the present and the future remains uncertain.

Solas ó Inné (centre), NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — Solas ó Inné (centre), NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Walls Echoing the Past, Failing to Nurture the Future, 2025, Standing the Test of Time as These Four Walls Dissolve, 2025, each oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm — Walls Echoing the Past, Failing to Nurture the Future, 2025, Standing the Test of Time as These Four Walls Dissolve, 2025, each oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm

Walls Echoing the Past, Failing to Nurture The Future, detail section, 2025, 150 x 100cm — Walls Echoing the Past, Failing to Nurture The Future, detail section, 2025, 150 x 100cm

Glaoigh Abhaile go Luath, 2025, oil on crocheted calico — Glaoigh Abhaile go Luath, 2025, oil on crocheted calico

Arbitrary Orbit, detail section, 2025, 166 x 84cm — Arbitrary Orbit, detail section, 2025, 166 x 84cm

Standing the Test of Time as These Four Walls Dissolve, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 x 150cm — Standing the Test of Time as These Four Walls Dissolve, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 x 150cm

Solas Ó Inné, 2025, crochet lace, reverse side, Glaoigh Abhaile go Luath, 2025 — Solas Ó Inné, 2025, crochet lace, reverse side, Glaoigh Abhaile go Luath, 2025

Momentarily Magnolia (detail), 2025, oil on canvas and Walls Echoing the Past Failing to Nurture the Future, (detail) 2025, oil on canvas — Momentarily Magnolia (detail), 2025, oil on canvas and Walls Echoing the Past Failing to Nurture the Future, (detail) 2025, oil on canvas

Standing the Test of Time While These Four Walls Dissolve, detail, oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm — Standing the Test of Time While These Four Walls Dissolve, detail, oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm

Research

Studio shot

Sketchbook

<p><em>Sunkissed</em>, painting detail section</p> — Sunkissed, painting detail section

<p>Mise Lucy Tarmey</p> — Mise Lucy Tarmey