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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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

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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

NCAD Works Grace Gifford House

9–16 June

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

Folklore and mythology is the core of my inspiration. Storytelling, childlike wonder, and the energy emanating from the land, is something that gives richness to the present and allows me to cherish life’s mundanities.

Inspired by my home in Co. Sligo, my practice hopes to expose the magical elements of landscapes and tell a story of higher powers, spirits, shapeshifters, and the mystical aspects within nature. Revealing the protective symbolism of materials used within the home, my practice aims to convey a domestic environment through the manipulation of textiles.

Grounded by life in each chimney, this installation conveys the chimney's scale and hopes to engage the superstitious elements depicted within it. This is presented through the eye of a jackdaw as the chimney’s gatekeeper, using rusting with iron, cyanotype printing, twigs, written charms and nails, and presented as a domestic like setting.

Amy Keighron

'There's more than a Jackdaw lurking in your chimney'.

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*There's more than a Jackdaw lurking in your chimney*, tapestry installation

There's more than a Jackdaw lurking in your chimney, tapestry installation

*There's more than a Jackdaw lurking in your chimney*, hanging tapestry using mixed media, rusting, cyanotype and found objects

There's more than a Jackdaw lurking in your chimney, hanging tapestry using mixed media, rusting, cyanotype and found objects

Sheep Skull, hand painted, naturally dyed

Sheep Skull, hand painted, naturally dyed

Witch bottle inspired, glass, feathers, horse hair (detail)

Witch bottle inspired, glass, feathers, horse hair (detail)

Iron horse shoe (detail)

Iron horse shoe (detail)

*Protection omen poetry*, charcoal, rusted cotton, cyanotype (detail)

Protection omen poetry, charcoal, rusted cotton, cyanotype (detail)

Research

Protect me & I will protect you too, Co. Sligo, primary imagery

Protect me & I will protect you too, Co. Sligo, primary imagery

Tool for words, typewriter, primary imagery

Tool for words, typewriter, primary imagery

The Old Mill House, Co. Sligo, primary imagery

The Old Mill House, Co. Sligo, primary imagery

Jackdaws chatting, primary imagery

Jackdaws chatting, primary imagery