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

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Plás Parthalán, Tallaght
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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

Marika Sheridan

she/her

Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine (there's many a thing more lasting than a person)

This work explores the cyclical relationship between a painting and its painter. Being able to listen, understand and respond to what the painting needs. This mirrors the relationship we once had with land - a relationship that has become distant and fractured. I’m trying to return to this closeness and ground myself both mentally and physically.

The paintings begin on the floor, bringing me physically closer towards the ground. Working this way, with fluid, thin paint has allowed me to develop this cyclical conversation with the paintings, allowing paint to be free flowing - determining its own course during the making.

‘Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine’ is a saying used by the people of the Aran Islands, borrowed from a book by writer Tom O’Flaherty. It highlights the impermanence of human life in comparison to the land and how fragile and precious our time is here.

Installation

Studio shot, sewing work, photo by Daniel Richardson-Lawless

Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, diptych, acrylic and oil stick on calico, installation shot, photo by Ewan Power — Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, diptych, acrylic and oil stick on calico, installation shot, photo by Ewan Power

Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, detail shot, photo by Daniel Richardson-Lawless — Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, detail shot, photo by Daniel Richardson-Lawless

Almost Pindan, acrylic and oil stick on calico, detail shot, photo by Ewan Power — Almost Pindan, acrylic and oil stick on calico, detail shot, photo by Ewan Power

In The Nettles, acrylic on calico, partial installation shot with reeds, photo by Ewan Power — In The Nettles, acrylic on calico, partial installation shot with reeds, photo by Ewan Power

Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, detail shot of stitching, photo by Ewan Power — Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine, detail shot of stitching, photo by Ewan Power

Plait it into my hair, mold it under my feet, 2025, acrylic and oil stick on calico, detail shot, photo by Ewan Power — Plait it into my hair, mold it under my feet, 2025, acrylic and oil stick on calico, detail shot, photo by Ewan Power

Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine (there’s many a thing more lasting than a person), NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view, photo by Ewan Power — Is ioma ní is buaine ná an duine (there’s many a thing more lasting than a person), NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view, photo by Ewan Power

Almost Pindan & An Tulchan, 2025, installation shot, photo by Ewan Power — Almost Pindan & An Tulchan, 2025, installation shot, photo by Ewan Power

Research

<p>Studio shots by Ewan Power</p> — Studio shots by Ewan Power

Group critique installation view