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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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
Applied Materials
Media
Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
MA Design for Body & Environment
MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design

NCAD MFA Show

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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

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

NCAD Works Grace Gifford House

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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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Media

Ro-ro, lo-lo: the design and material culture of Dublin Port with MA DHMC and Grafton Architects.


10 Jun / 2:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes

NCAD Harry Clarke House

Every year MA Design History and Material Culture students research a defined area of Dublin and create work that draws attention to the life of the city in new ways. In 2023 they collaborated with UCD Architecture and Dublin Port to analyse this huge (510 acre) area of the city including its historic architecture, mechanised processes, labour identity, representation in visual culture and future development.
At this panel, the student researchers will present their work including fantastical historic maps, an analysis of containerisation, the Poolbeg Towers as accidental icons, how the body plugs into the city via the sewage system, occupational clothing and para-uniform and ultimately the nature of the port as a space and a place.

Our featured guest speaker is Kieran O'Brien, a Director of Grafton Architects who will speak about their role as the architects and designers charged with creating a masterplan for the Port including the creation of artists' studios, experimental theatre spaces, rehearsal spaces, workshops and co-working spaces Link. Kieran will be introduced by Cliona Harmey, an artist and NCAD fine art media lecturer whose work includes Dublin Ships (2015), a temporary artwork commissioned by Dublin City Council as part of the Dublin City Public Art Programme. Link

Hosted by Lisa Godson, Programme Leader, MA Design History and Material Culture and the MA Design History and Material Culture Year 1 students: Laura Doherty, Emily O'Sullivan, Rose Bonner, Dimitrios Iatrelis, Susan Hourican, and Fiona Moran.

HMM Dublin (ship) 2020), Port of Rotterdam
HMM Dublin (ship), 2020, Port of Rotterdam