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

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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
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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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Media

Although varying in both mood and medium, all my works explore the same themes of memory and home. In the wake of grief and loss, I immigrated to the country my grandmother had emigrated from – turning well-known places into memories and turning memories passed down through the generations into familiar places. I seek to mimic this journey in my art by memorialising the home I once knew, mourning the future I had once assumed, and honouring the home I am building for myself now.

I employ various printmaking and textile printing techniques including aquatint, drypoint, repeat patterns, digital drawing, and devoré. Using these methods, I attempt to balance familiar, traditional styles such as repeat patterns inspired by William Morris and lace patterns with the graphic and dream-like imagery of a place anonymous to others but fundamental to my own experience.

Caitlin Brown was born in 1984 in Brooklyn, New York and lives and works in Navan, Co. Meath.

Caitlin Brown

Always The Place You Just Left, Never The Place You Are

she/her

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*View from Porch (Repeat in Memory)*, digital drawing screenprint repeat pattern devoré on silk, 97 x 114cm (installation view)

View from Porch (Repeat in Memory), digital drawing screenprint repeat pattern devoré on silk, 97 x 114cm (installation view)

*View from Porch (Repeat in Memory)*, digital drawing screenprint repeat pattern devoré on silk, 97 x 114cm (detail)

View from Porch (Repeat in Memory), digital drawing screenprint repeat pattern devoré on silk, 97 x 114cm (detail)

*Point Lookout 2011 (View from Porch)*, digital drawing negative screen print devoré on silk, 32 x 48cm

Point Lookout 2011 (View from Porch), digital drawing negative screen print devoré on silk, 32 x 48cm

*Point Lookout 2011 (View from Porch)*, copperplate aquatint print, 14.5 x 21cm

Point Lookout 2011 (View from Porch), copperplate aquatint print, 14.5 x 21cm

*Enniscorthy Garden (Left for New York)*, drypoint print from milk carton, 30 x 29cm

Enniscorthy Garden (Left for New York), drypoint print from milk carton, 30 x 29cm

*Navan Garden (Left New York)*, drypoint print, 19.5 x 17.5cm

Navan Garden (Left New York), drypoint print, 19.5 x 17.5cm

*Point Lookout Beach Flags*, drypoint print, 10 x 10cm

Point Lookout Beach Flags, drypoint print, 10 x 10cm

*Pavilion and Dunes (The ‘A’s)*, copperplate aquatint print, 10 x 10cm

Pavilion and Dunes (The ‘A’s), copperplate aquatint print, 10 x 10cm

*Memories of Dunes & Tide*, multi-process print (drypoint and aquatint), 10 x 10cm

Memories of Dunes & Tide, multi-process print (drypoint and aquatint), 10 x 10cm

*The Beach Thief (Repeat with New Generation)*, digital drawing repeat printed on velvet with cotton pom-pom trim, 93 x 97cm

The Beach Thief (Repeat with New Generation), digital drawing repeat printed on velvet with cotton pom-pom trim, 93 x 97cm