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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6–14 June

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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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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

Margaret Callan Bergin

she/her

Your Move

Margaret Callan Bergin is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in theatre-making. She is intensely experimental, combining printmaking processes with collage, video, photography, and painting.

'Your Move' is a life size reimagining of the Dublin Monopoly game, investigating complex elements of social unrest in Dublin, the impact of government failures, and polarisation fuelled by sinister players feeding ugly prejudice. Depicting a city in flux, the most vulnerable are rendered more vulnerable.

Starting at ‘Go’, participants are invited to move around the board, comprising 31 photomontage images from Callan Bergin’s photographs of Dublin. The playing pieces, words, graphics, and city signs are montaged with subverted visuals to intentionally misdirect and provoke contemplation about how words, images, colours, and emblems can be misappropriated to create subliminal prejudice.

The chaos fomented by those in power is further explored in the accompanying video installation Somewhere. This work seeks to provoke self reflection on our stance, evoking empathy and compassion.

Dublins Burning, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm from Your Move installation, NCAD Works 2025

Dublins Burning, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm from Your Move installation, NCAD Works 2025

Your Move, life-size Dublin Monopoly board subverted, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Your Move, life-size Dublin Monopoly board subverted, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Conspire, digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm

Conspire, digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm

Dolly's Poem, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58 cm

Dolly's Poem, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58 cm

Your Move, life-size Dublin Monopoly board subverted, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Your Move, life-size Dublin Monopoly board subverted, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

I Predict a Riot, Blue GPO Lift Off, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm

I Predict a Riot, Blue GPO Lift Off, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm

Subliminal, photomontage digital print, 38 x 58cm

Subliminal, photomontage digital print, 38 x 58cm

Lost at Sea, fine art digital Gilcée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

Lost at Sea, fine art digital Gilcée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

The Toss of a Coin, digital Giclée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

The Toss of a Coin, digital Giclée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

The Luas is on Fire, fine art Gilcée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

The Luas is on Fire, fine art Gilcée print on Hahnemühle William Turner, 29 x 42cm

'Somewhere' from 'Your Move' NCAD Works 2025

Research

<p><em>Spire Walkers</em>, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm </p>

Spire Walkers, photomontage digital print on vinyl, 38 x 58cm

<p><em>Smoke and Mirrors</em> 2, digital photography series</p>

Smoke and Mirrors 2, digital photography series

<p><em>Your Move</em>, layout experiments in college Atrium</p>

Your Move, layout experiments in college Atrium

<p><em>Delusion</em>, digital photography series </p>

Delusion, digital photography series

<p><em>Foot Soldiers</em>, digital photography series cut and paste for photomontage</p>

Foot Soldiers, digital photography series cut and paste for photomontage