Professor Sarah Glennie

Director

Through this site you can explore the full breadth of work by our extraordinary graduates. We are exceptionally proud of the final-year and postgraduate students who are part of NCAD Works 2023, and in sharing their work with you we would like to pay tribute to them and the ways in which they have individually responded to the immense challenges that the last few years have posed. Their work stands as testament to the dedication, resilience and creativity that has inspired us all through some challenging years, and I know all my colleagues at NCAD are extremely proud of everything that they have achieved. 

Our students are fully engaged with the world beyond the NCAD campus and they continue to demonstrate their ambition and commitment to make work that has impact and meaning to us all in many different ways. The big challenges that face society can be traced across our graduates' work as they apply their creativity to bringing new solutions, critical thinking and reflection onto issues including sustainability, gender identity and equality, wellbeing, new technologies and our digital and material futures.  

An education at NCAD is the starting point for generations of bold and curious minds that have made an enormous contribution to society in many different ways. Experimentation in the studio, learning through doing, deep understanding of materials and processes, as well as the criticality that is embedded across all pathways, prepare graduates to thrive in and beyond the worlds of art and design. We cannot predict the kind of world our graduates will be working in, but we do know that the imagination, creativity and critical thinking they have gained during their time at NCAD will equip them to make an impact in whatever path they follow. We need thinkers and doers who are not afraid to ask questions, adapt and lead, and this generation of NCAD graduates’ creativity and resilience will benefit us all in years to come. 

So on behalf of An Bord and all my colleagues at NCAD – congratulations to all our graduating students, we are extremely proud of all that you have achieved and we look forward to following your creative journeys in the future.

NCAD Works 2023 Thomas St Campus

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Thu 15 June 10am–8pm
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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
Applied Materials
Media
Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
MA Design for Body & Environment
MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design

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Sat 10 June 10am–5pm
Sun 11 June 10am–5pm
Mon 12 June 10am–8pm
Tue 13 June 10am–8pm
Wed 14 June 10am–8pm
Thu 15 June 10am–8pm
Fri 16 June 10am–6pm

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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Fri 9 June 10am–9pm
Sat 10 June 10am–5pm
Sun 11 June 10am–5pm
Mon 12 June 10am–8pm
Tue 13 June 10am–8pm
Wed 14 June 10am–8pm
Thu 15 June 10am–8pm
Fri 16 June 10am–6pm

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ONLINE PANEL EVENT - Crafting Circularity: the Transformational Potential of the Crafts Sector with speaker Gwen Cunningham. [Online Registration Required]

15 Jun / 4:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: ONLINE LINK to register

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The World Crafts Council Europe is pleased to present the next edition of the New European Bauhaus webinar series. Following the previous two topics of sustainability and digitalisation, this webinar will focus on the theme of circularity and circular economy in craft. Guest experts will discuss the capacities of the craft sector in contributing toward building more resilient and sustainable societies and encouraging the necessary adoption of circular practices.

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In the company of a panel of speakers, join Gwen Cunningham, Lead for Sustainability and Circular Economy at the National College of Art and Design at her address to the Word Crafts Council Europe. https://wcc-europe.org/

Gwen Cunningham is the Lead at Circle Textiles Programme at Circle Economy, Amsterdam and Sustainability & Circular Economy Lead at the National College of Art and Design, Ireland.

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Word Crafts Council Europe. https://wcc-europe.org/

We promote the design-led crafts and applied arts in Europe

  • We encourage the membership to promote WCC-Europe at key exhibitions, conferences and trade related events

  • Utilise the WCC-Europe website as a resource for promotion and for critical writing about craft across Europe

  • Work with members to develop the ‘Craft Cities’ and ‘European Artistic Craft Days’ initiative

  • Analyse and highlight critical challenges facing craft in Europe

  • Play an active role in the WCC International, profiling European craft in WCC International activities

We have built up an international network of contacts in these craft fields
Find out more about our members HERE

This is accomplished through networking, promotion and communications

  • WCC-Europe provides opportunities to network and share resources through an annual General Assembly and at other relevant events

  • The WCC-Europe website aims to improve communication, visibility and awareness of WCC-Europe and its member organisations

  • We utilise our social media to promote the network and share information between members

  • We encourage members to take an active role in the development and promotion of WCC-Europe

  • WCC-Europe facilitates networking and collaboration between craft organisations in the EU in order to build capacity and promote craft

We collect and spread information across a large network of member entities

WCC-Europe aims to exchange and develop a resource of information that supports the contribution of craft to society from historical, social, cultural and economic perspectives. This is achieved by:

  • Conducting a survey to collect data from members and other sources to establish size, economic value and overall contribution of the sector to European society

  • Building on previous research to identify key opportunities and challenges to craft in Europe

  • Utilising the WCC-Europe website as a resource for data gathered and to highlight opportunities and challenges

  • We develop our website and social media to promote the network and share information between members

  • Encouraging critical writing and discourse on craft

We represent crafts at international, official, political and administrative levels

  • WCC-Europe encourages the membership to promote WCC-Europe at key exhibitions, conferences and trade related events

  • Engage with countries and craft internationally through the ‘Craft Cities’ and ‘European Artistic Craft Days’ initiative

  • Play an active role in the WCC International, profiling European craft in WCC International activities

  • Promote and engage with the WCC-BF European Prize for Applied Arts which celebrates the work of artists in the field of applied arts and design-led crafts and recognises excellence in craftsmanship


15 Jun / 4:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes

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