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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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

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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School of Education

Professional Master of Education

Maire Byrne O'Hara
Sorcha Carey
Alanagh Clegg
Sarah Egan
Rachel Louise Gartlan
Julia Jacob
Maura Lennox
Sophie Lundkvist McCormack
Jack Meagher
Michaela Monahan
Siobhan Murphy
Sinead Power
Katie Reddy
Katie Staniford
Rebekah Wall
Rebecca Warren
Rebekah Waters

The Professional Master of Education (PME) is a two-year master’s programme which leads to a professional qualification to teach Art and Design at second level. The conceptual framework that underpins the delivery of the PME programme operates on the principle that "art teacher education is not centrally concerned with the teaching of art, or teaching about art, but rather is expressly committed to teaching through art" (Granville 2012, p.2).

The question, what does it mean to teach and make art that is of and for our time? anchored the PME cohorts’ experience of the programme. It was explored through many facets including their design and delivery of the curriculum in post primary education; research inquiries and learning encounters that involved peer tutoring, Inclusive Education and engaging with the gallery as a pedagogical site.

The programme is orientated around a sustained immersion in one’s practice as artists and designers. Essentially how the student teachers think, contextualise and make work as artists and designers informs their methodology as future teachers. The annual Change Lab experience and exhibition in the NCAD Gallery gives the student teachers the opportunity to do just that. The Change Lab is an Ubuntu funded project, http://ubuntu.ie/, that was designed as a model of practice to integrate Global Citizenship Education (GCE) into the heart of learning in the Professional Master of Education (PME) programme. The Change Lab instils in our student artist-teachers a strong commitment and motivation to teach for social justice and sustainability through the lens of their practice as artist, researcher and teacher. Each year the Change Lab consists of the student artist-teacher working in groups in the NCAD Gallery space, for a three week period, to create a body of artwork that critically reflects social injustices and unsustainable practices that define our time.

The Change Lab website  https://thechangelab.ie was created to showcase the students' lab experience and the multiple layers that the project involves.The site also acts as a pedagogical repository and a digital archive for past iterations of the Change Lab experience. Please view our film https://vimeo.com/755596971/e609609a1e which captures the evolution of the students' working process to present how they research, respond and articulate the visual art curriculum through a GCE lens.

Granville, G. (2012) Trajectory, Torque and Turn: Art and Design Education in Irish Post Primary Schools. In Gary Granville (Ed) Art Education and Contemporary Culture: Irish Experience, International Perspectives. Bristol: Intellect Books.