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.

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BA Fashion
BA Jewellery & Objects
BA Textile & Surface Design
Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
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BA Illustration
BA Moving Image Design
BA Interaction Design
BA Product Design
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MA Design for Body & Environment
MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design

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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Wed 14 June 10am–8pm
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Media

Through my work I explore how everything is connected, how our external world is a reflection of our inner reality and how all things come into being through relationships and interactions.

Our world is one of communication, networking, interactions and reflections. With the inclusion of mirrors in this large-scale installation, the boundaries between exhibit and individual dissolve. The viewers become both observers and actors with narratives being continuously refreshed by their presence.

A core area of my research is how perception occurs – more often than not as a best guess – and how one’s opinion of a particular reality greatly influences one’s experience of that reality. Science tells us that we are primed to see the world as we do, primed that is by all our accumulated life experiences and by our conscious and unconscious biases. What we know affects what we see!

My process-based practice is positioned in the affective domain of experience, where I explore new possibilities of seeing and understanding. The work begins with colour – with applications of translucent, opaque and gestural layers of oil paint – and colour
gives life to the forms that grow on canvas, as three dimensional sculptural elements and as written texts. A variety of materials are utilised including oil paint, metal, resin, foam and porcelain.

I feel that it is through questioning, criticality and seeking explanations that we humans continue to evolve and to create meaningful, empathic lives on our own terms.

Karen Ebbs

Apropos of Everything

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*Desperately Seeking Connection*, oil paint on linen, 95 x 95cm

Desperately Seeking Connection, oil paint on linen, 95 x 95cm

*Installation View 1*, oil paintings on linen, porcelain, aluminium sculptures and mirrors

Installation View 1, oil paintings on linen, porcelain, aluminium sculptures and mirrors

*Installation View 2*, oil paintings on linen, porcelain, aluminium sculptures and mirror

Installation View 2, oil paintings on linen, porcelain, aluminium sculptures and mirror

*Installation View 3*, oil paint on linen, aluminium sculpture and mirrors

Installation View 3, oil paint on linen, aluminium sculpture and mirrors

*Installation View 4*, oil paint on linen and mirrors

Installation View 4, oil paint on linen and mirrors

*Wild and Untethered*, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

Wild and Untethered, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

*Immersed in the Act of Becoming*, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

Immersed in the Act of Becoming, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

*A World of Many Small Things*, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

A World of Many Small Things, oil paint on linen, 230 x 180cm

*Installation View 5*, oil paint on linen and mirrors

Installation View 5, oil paint on linen and mirrors

*Compendium of Narratives*, oil paint on linen, 95 x 95cm

Compendium of Narratives, oil paint on linen, 95 x 95cm

Apropos of Everything, The Annexe, Dublin, June 2023
I AM more blue that YOU, YOU ARE more green than ME, exhibition at Farmleigh September 2022
Wild Accumulations, The Lab Gallery, DCC March/April 2022