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

Noor Farsakh

she/her

Shorn

My practice explores the complex relationship between female hair, femininity, and the enduring impact of gender-based violence, with a particular focus on the cultural and historical significance of forced hair shearing in Ireland. Hair, traditionally a symbol of beauty, is reimagined in my work as a tool of humiliation and control, challenging conventional narratives around identity and bodily autonomy.

Drawing on the research of Linda Connolly, a professor and writer whose work examines the treatment of women during the Irish War of Independence, I investigate how hair holds memory and DNA, acting as an archive that reveals hidden histories of resistance, shame, and loss of bodily autonomy.

Through large-scale tapestry, silkscreen printing with unconventional materials, installation, and quilting using human hair, I tell the stories of women affected by these violent crimes. My work aims to bring attention to these often overlooked experiences, transforming symbols of shame into acts of remembrance.

Carpet, quilted human hair on cotton, hair bleach screenprinted text, 150 x 250cm — Carpet, quilted human hair on cotton, hair bleach screenprinted text, 150 x 250cm

Hairball, five layer screenprint on Somerset Satin 300gsm, 76 x 112cm — Hairball, five layer screenprint on Somerset Satin 300gsm, 76 x 112cm

Hairball II, variable dimensions, three soft human hair forms enclosed in a clear polycarbonate casing — Hairball II, variable dimensions, three soft human hair forms enclosed in a clear polycarbonate casing

Shorn, screenprinted hair bleach on quilted human hair, backed with duotone satin, 50 × 150cm — Shorn, screenprinted hair bleach on quilted human hair, backed with duotone satin, 50 × 150cm

Close-up installation view

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Bleach screenprint details on Carpet — Bleach screenprint details on Carpet

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, wall installation view