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
BA Graphic Design
BA Illustration
BA Moving Image Design
BA Interaction Design
BA Product Design
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Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
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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Media

My painting practice combines figurative painting on two dimensional surfaces with props within a framework of poetic/ narrative text.

The current work Between Land and Sea examines the hybrid figure of the mermaid, half fish, half woman that goes between land and sea, known and unknown, conscious and unconscious.

The work considers diverse cultural narratives that have contributed to mermaid mythologies, the border spaces between land and water and the significance of her associated objects: the comb and mirror. There are references also to mermaid artefacts in collections in the Horniman Museum and Buxton Museum.

Through painting installation and the accompanying written monologue 'I AM a Hybrid Being', the viewer is invited to critically engage with the representative frameworks for mermaid mythologies and to reflect on the process of identity construction on a personal and socio-cultural level.

Patricia Hennessy

Between Land and Sea

she/her

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*Elements are separated*, oil on canvas, 61 x 46cm

Elements are separated, oil on canvas, 61 x 46cm

Installation view, The Annex

Installation view, The Annex

*The Scream (after Zuiryuji Temple Mermaid)*, oil on canvas, 36 x 56cm

The Scream (after Zuiryuji Temple Mermaid), oil on canvas, 36 x 56cm

*Between Land and Sea*, oil on canvas, diptych 164 x 92cm

Between Land and Sea, oil on canvas, diptych 164 x 92cm

Installation view: *Inside and Outside*, oil on canvas; *A Curiosity (after Karukayado Temple Mermaid)*, oil on canvas

Installation view: Inside and Outside, oil on canvas; A Curiosity (after Karukayado Temple Mermaid), oil on canvas

*Pattern for a giant mermaid*, papier mâché, paint, fabric, varnish, 210 x 62cm

Pattern for a giant mermaid, papier mâché, paint, fabric, varnish, 210 x 62cm

*Mermaid Comb*, foam board, paint, fossilised rock shelf, 13 x 12cm

Mermaid Comb, foam board, paint, fossilised rock shelf, 13 x 12cm

*Mermaid Comb*, foam board, paint, fossilised rock shelf, 13 x 12cm

Mermaid Comb, foam board, paint, fossilised rock shelf, 13 x 12cm

*Boundless Space*, oil on canvas, 82 x 92cm

Boundless Space, oil on canvas, 82 x 92cm

*Distancing Device with Selkie skin*, foam board, jesmonite, paint, white rug underlay with paint, 60 x 93cm

Distancing Device with Selkie skin, foam board, jesmonite, paint, white rug underlay with paint, 60 x 93cm