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

Print

Niamh O'Reilly

she/her

Frameworks

My work is inspired by tessellation and geometry in architecture. Through the use of repeated shapes and patterns, I create reflections of abstract architectural possibilities. My current body of work is imbued with the materiality of drawing, using stencilling and soft ground etching to develop forms persuaded by line direction.

'Frameworks' expands upon the boundaries of the copper plate, constructing illusions of three-dimensional forms. These works interrupt the limitations of traditional print, making the embossing of the copper plate an innate part of the work itself. Rooted in the concept of the built environment, this installation incorporates wood as both a matrix and a method of display, creating a conversation between ephemerality and the urban landscape.

This work explores structures from the outside looking in, focusing on the impact windows have on architectural aesthetics, windows are the eyes of a building, offering a glance into the soul of a structure.

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Cubicles, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm — Cubicles, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm

House, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm — House, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm

Networks, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm — Networks, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm

Pentagon, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm — Pentagon, soft ground etching on hahnemuhle, mounted on birch plywood, 38 x 37cm

Foundations, graphite stencil on birch plywood, 122 x 60cm — Foundations, graphite stencil on birch plywood, 122 x 60cm