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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Sat 10 June 10am–5pm
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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:

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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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

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

NCAD Works Grace Gifford House

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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

Strings and threads are everywhere, stitching all life together.

I am a mixed media textile artist who has grown up experimenting with a wide variety of art forms, including illustration and painting.

My current work evolves from deconstructing repurposed fabrics, through burning, tearing, slashing, and repairing. I then use the language of stitch, print and paint to tell stories of the fascinating world we live in – adding organic forms or found objects.

My aim is to show what the earth under our feet tells us: that life and death are entwined and how the threads from something broken and torn can be used for something new. In this process I aim to celebrate the diversity of life and our collective need to protect it, alongside exploring ancient narratives that connect us to the land and delve into the subterranean – those that reveal secrets about where we ourselves may have disconnected.

Jo Jo Gannon

Underland

she/her

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*Death is woven in*, mixed media embroidery on print, stumpwork, wirework and lacework on botanical cyanotype print, repurposed fabric, recycled yarn and cheesecloth mounted in wooden embroidery hoops, 25 x 48 x 6cm

Death is woven in, mixed media embroidery on print, stumpwork, wirework and lacework on botanical cyanotype print, repurposed fabric, recycled yarn and cheesecloth mounted in wooden embroidery hoops, 25 x 48 x 6cm

*Underland – Networking*, mixed media textile art, deconstructed, repurposed fabrics, heated Tyvek, found objects, acrylics, thread couching, cyanotype prints, mounted on canvas board, 42 x 75 x 2cm

Underland – Networking, mixed media textile art, deconstructed, repurposed fabrics, heated Tyvek, found objects, acrylics, thread couching, cyanotype prints, mounted on canvas board, 42 x 75 x 2cm

*The Metamorphosis of Aoife*, mixed media textile art, deconstructed repurposed fabrics, embroidery thread, inks and acrylics, 39 x 34cm

The Metamorphosis of Aoife, mixed media textile art, deconstructed repurposed fabrics, embroidery thread, inks and acrylics, 39 x 34cm

*Underland – Eye contact*, mixed media textile and glass sculpture, deconstructed, repurposed fabrics, second-hand mirror, couched recycled rope thread, acrylics, embroidered text on linen, mounted in wooden embroidery hoops, 55 x 95 x 3cm

Underland – Eye contact, mixed media textile and glass sculpture, deconstructed, repurposed fabrics, second-hand mirror, couched recycled rope thread, acrylics, embroidered text on linen, mounted in wooden embroidery hoops, 55 x 95 x 3cm

*No such thing as separation*, mixed media textile art, machine embroidered poem on a repurposed apron, embroidered heart using appliqué, 39 x 34cm

No such thing as separation, mixed media textile art, machine embroidered poem on a repurposed apron, embroidered heart using appliqué, 39 x 34cm

*Underland – Some Excavations*, mixed media textile and glass sculpture, deconstructed repurposed fabrics, found objects, acrylics, couched recycled rope thread, heated Tyvek and mirror, 60 x 30cm

Underland – Some Excavations, mixed media textile and glass sculpture, deconstructed repurposed fabrics, found objects, acrylics, couched recycled rope thread, heated Tyvek and mirror, 60 x 30cm

*Dandelion Clock*, embroidery on tulle in wooden hoop, 30.5cm wide hoop

Dandelion Clock, embroidery on tulle in wooden hoop, 30.5cm wide hoop

*Death is Woven In* (detail)

Death is Woven In (detail)

*Underland – Eye contact* (detail)

Underland – Eye contact (detail)

*No such thing as separation* (detail)

No such thing as separation (detail)