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

Painting

Molly Buí Hennessy

she/her

There’s no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that.

There is a quiet wildness here, both outside and internal. I ask myself, what is the value of jumping into a bathtub filled with dirt, rust, and the remaining saliva of thirsty cattle?

Drawing upon the Irish Philosopher, John Moriarty's words on wildness (2002), my work embraces spontaneity, chance and absurdity as a reaction to the world around me. I see painting as a visual poetry- a way to create metaphors and conjure meaning through make believe, a way to unlock stories in one's mind. I am interested in the act of wondering.

Can 'creating' be a way to confront feelings of apathy and disillusionment with the world as I grow up within it?

Can personifying creatures whose voices we cannot understand induce empathy?

Can fences that curl and coil be a symbol of a consciousness that exists in natural environments?

This body of work is an invitation of curiosity.

Cow cud is a twin, oil on canvas, 120 x 170cm — Cow cud is a twin, oil on canvas, 120 x 170cm

Masked and soaking in the rust and saliva of thirsty cattle, oil on canvas, 120 x 170cm — Masked and soaking in the rust and saliva of thirsty cattle, oil on canvas, 120 x 170cm

There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Suspended amidst the backbone of a dolphin, oil on canvas, 40 x 45cm — Suspended amidst the backbone of a dolphin, oil on canvas, 40 x 45cm

There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Crawling out and underneath the seas rusted crates, paper and oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm — Crawling out and underneath the seas rusted crates, paper and oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm

The salt of shells and smell of vinegar lingers inside, mixed media, 58 x 68cm — The salt of shells and smell of vinegar lingers inside, mixed media, 58 x 68cm

Turmeric on stretched polyester, crustaceons, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — There's no bone in my body shaped to the earth like that, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

This lobster exoskeleton holds a crooked landscape, oil on calico, 94 x 120cm — This lobster exoskeleton holds a crooked landscape, oil on calico, 94 x 120cm

Suspend your disbelief

Title of show taken from excerpt within video: Tommy Tiernan interviewing John Moriarty (2002)

Research

Reference photo

Sitting in a cow trough

Collage work, paper mask and poems

Washed up crates- manmade structures morphing into the landscape

Rusted crates at the bottom of the cliffside