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NCAD Graduate Exhibition 2018 Foreword: Director
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Exhibition Locations
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School of Design
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Foreword: School of Design BA (Hons) Visual Communication
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BA (Hons) Fashion Design
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BA (Hons) Jewellery & Objects
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BA (Hons) Textile & Surface Design
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BA (Hons) Product Design
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MA Interaction Design
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MSc Medical Device Design
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MFA Design
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School of Education
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Foreword: School of Education
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Joint Hons Fine Art or Design & Education
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Foreword: Professional Master of Education
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Professional Master of Education
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School of Fine Art
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Foreword: School of Fine Art
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BA (Hons) Fine Art (Applied Material Cultures)
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BA (Hons) Fine Art (Print)
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BA (Hons) Fine Art (Media)
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BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)
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BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture)
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Foreword: MFA in Digital Art
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MFA in Digital Art
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Foreword: MFA in Fine Art
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MFA in Fine Art
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School of Visual Culture
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Foreword: School of Visual Culture
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BA (Hons) Visual Culture
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First Year Art & Design Studies
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Continuing Education in Art & Design (CEAD)
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Foreword: Director
Students, Family and Friends, on behalf of An Bord and all the staff of NCAD, I am delighted to welcome you to the NCAD Graduate Exhibitions 2018, including exhibitions by the First Year students, our graduating undergraduate and post-graduate students and our Continuing Education (CEAD) students. An education at NCAD is the starting point for generations of creative minds that have made an enormous contribution to society in many different ways in Ireland and globally. The Graduate Exhibition is the moment every year when we have the privilege of experiencing the next generation of creative talent and appreciating, at first hand, the dedication and critical enquiry that underpins all their work. On behalf of all of the staff at NCAD, I would like to state how proud we are of the achievements of these graduates – evident for visitors within this Exhibition and to us, as staff, across their time at the College. We have been witness to their inventiveness, their sense of adventure and willingness to take risks, and appreciative of the rigour with which they have approached their creative enquiry. Educating generations of graduates who interpret the world in a challenging and alternative way is vital to NCAD’s identity as a research-led university. Creative practice can be a lonely and challenging place. Across all the wide range of disciplines taught, NCAD supports its students to continually challenge themselves, to ask the difficult questions of themselves and others, and to expose and test their creative practice within a safe environment. We also support and encourage them to start to engage their practice in different contexts across society.
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NCAD students, be they undergraduates or postgraduates, show remarkable initiative and professionalism – seeking out, developing and responding to opportunities to engage their practice in real world situations before ever they graduate from the College. The exhibitions they have created, the research they have undertaken in collaboration with industry, the consideration they have given to the ways in which they engage with communities beyond the walls of NCAD – in classrooms, in cultural organisations, in the immediate locality – all contribute to the breadth and depth of this exhibition. Our students are emerging into a changing world where the potential of creativity across society is increasingly valued and the boundaries between different disciplines and professions are increasingly blurred, so these experiences of collaboration will equip them to make significant contributions to the paths they choose to follow after graduation. Friends and families of these graduates have witnessed at first hand how hard they have worked throughout their time at NCAD, and the intensity of their final year. I am sure you will join us in congratulating the Class of 2018. We are all proud of your achievements and celebrate your inspiring creativity, curiosity and willingness to question. These are qualities that will serve you well as you leave here to forge a path as an artist, as a designer, as an educator, as a critic, or as a creative thinker in whatever career you pursue. We hope you enjoy this celebration of your achievements and of everyone in the College, and we wish you every success in the future. Professor Sarah Glennie Director 5
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Exhibition Locations
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Jewellery & Objects
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Fashion Design
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Product Design
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Textile & Surface Design
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Visual Communication
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MFA Design
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MA Interacation Design
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MSc Medical Device Design
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School of Visual Culture Visual Culture
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School of Design
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Design creates a better world. It shapes our daily lives, influencing how we interact with each other and with our environment. At its best, design is a powerful catalyst for change. The School of Design at NCAD offers the most comprehensive range of design disciplines on the island of Ireland, with student’s studying courses in graphic design, illustration, moving image design, jewellery, fashion, textile & surface design, product design, medical device design and interaction design. This dynamic environment helps create a design culture that thrives on new ideas, new ways of doing things and new areas of expertise. The work on show clearly demonstrates the ability of our graduates to experiment and embrace risk to create innovative ways of working within, and beyond, their design disciplines. This creative experimentation is complemented by their outstanding work with leading companies and organisations including Diageo, River Island, Brown Thomas, Irish Distillers Group, Newbridge Silverware and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The quality of our graduates continues to be recognised, with students winning awards such as the Design and Craft Council of Ireland’s Future Makers awards and International Society of Typographic Designers student assessments, and with the college being ranked in the top 50 Art and Design colleges in Europe by the QS World University Rankings. Innovation is essential to the sustained economic, social and cultural development of Ireland and the wider world. Design is by its very nature innovative: it involves examining how things work and how they can be improved, a process that continually generates new ideas and combinations. The show captures this process and presents the work of our talented graduates as they begin their professional creative careers. I hope you enjoy the show.
Professor Alex Milton Head of the School of Design
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION DESIGN BA (HONS) VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Visual Communication
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KEILAH CASS Here and Then Through different mediums, I have developed creative outcomes that are a result of in-depth research on the topic of home. Analysing nostalgia, sense of place and issues of home. Image caption: Illustration from a recipe book about issues with home Instagram: keilahcass
GAVIN CONNELL Fundamentalism: Don’t Drink the Kool Aid This project explores the trials and tribulations that cults go through, which commonly leads to their tragic demise. The content is predominantly investigated through illustration. Image caption: Illustration about Scientology Instagram: gavconl
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CLIODHNA DEMPSEY Imbalance This project highlights the gender imbalance within ballet, which is heavily populated by females, to inform how a skewed ratio causes a hindrance to both men and women’s dancing careers. Image caption: Still from moving image design Boys in Ballet Behance: cliodhnadempsey
CONOR DEMPSEY Facing Fur Farming This work is based on the topic of active Irish fur farms, raising much needed awareness on the issue, hoping to inform and inspire; working towards the industry’s closure. Image caption: This picture sums up the industry’s barbaric and inhumane nature Photographed by: Joanne McArthur Email: condemps7@hotmail.com
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MATTHEW DILLON The Light of Darkness Darkness affects us all in many different ways, some positive and others negative. By taking the theme of darkness I aim to shed light on this subject in a comprehensive manner. Image caption: What is darkness? Drawing by Matthew Dillon Instagram: matthewdillon__
CIARA ERSKINE Conversation
Conversation celebrates focus, connection and humanity. It explores distractions and barriers to conversation and interventions that can be implemented to encourage unfiltered, meaningful engagements between people. Image caption: Photograph demonstrating the distraction phones pose to conversation Instagram: ciartishere
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REBECCA FAHEY Flawless Flawless explores the obsession with perfectionism in today’s youth, in terms of social media and leisure. Image caption: Still from film Extra Flawless Website: rebeccafahey.com
DAVID GILMORE Sleep Deprivation Exploring sleep deprivation and the effects it has, such as sleep paralysis, through illustration, installation and moving image design in an effort to make the intangible, tangible. Image caption: Sleep deprivation and what it does to the human mind Email: Dboystudios@gmail.com
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TOMAS GUDAUSKAS We Are One This project focuses on migration, anti-racism and anti-nationalism. We live in the 21st century, where there should be no separation. This project will promote togetherness, the way humanity should be. Image caption: Illustration from children’s book Migrating Bird Website: behance.net/TomasGudauskas
SOPHIE HUGHES Misplaced This project explores what defines a weed and asks why weeds are treated so differently to plants. Image caption: Image from project photobook Website: sophieannhughes.com
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COLUM JORDAN Thinking Inside the Box This project aims to ascertain how creatives in various disciplines generate ideas through oblique methods and restrictions, selfimposed or otherwise, which can make the process easier or harder. Image caption: Cover for accompanying publication Website: columjordan.com
SAM KAY The Impact of Labels ‘Art is an empirical relationship of humans to object and objects to objects in relation to humans,’ Lawrence Weiner. Labels can alter our perceived interaction with objects and people. Image caption: Poster Instagram: sam_k_sam_k
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SORCHA KELLY Things Are Not What They Seem The media presents a world of paranoia and fear. Inspired by post-WW1 German Expressionism, my work explores a similar narrative in relation to our contemporary experiences post-9/11. Image caption: The Watchful Eye of the Higher Authority Email: sorchakellyy1996@gmail.com
JONATHAN KELLY Nest
Nest is a local cultural publication, which offers a unique perspective on creative life in Dublin, while encouraging a new level of appreciation of the city. Image caption: Vanessa Power aka ‘Signs of Power’ sign-painting at an event Photographed by: Rónan Hennigan Instagram: dijon_kelly
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AIDAN LYNCH Gender Polarisation A body of work designed to highlight political ideologies and restart proactive conversation and even discourse in today’s increasingly polarised world. Instagram: aidanlynch96
CHRISTOPHER MCDONAGH From 1916 to 2018; the trouble could be about to begin once again. This campaign aims to highlight the potential effects of Brexit, North and South of the border. Image caption: Photo from the BBC documentary of the Troubles in the North Instagram: chrisviscom
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CHLOE MCGANN Parkinsons This project aims not only to create awareness about Parkinson’s, but to help others understand this degenerative neurological disease. Image caption: Still from Unite for Parkinsons Animation Website: behance.net/chloemcgance66
RACHAEL MCGINTY Design in the Dark This project explores life with a visual impairment, tackling accessibility for the partially sighted in graphic design and celebrating the creatives who work with limited sight. Image caption: Braille image taken from The Blind Photographer by Gerardo Nigenda Photographed by: Gerardo Nigenda Instagram: rchlmcgnty
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EVELYN MCGRILLEN A Valuable Thing An archive is a treasure trove of information. Information was always important and always worth something; it is crucial that we preserve it. Image caption: Part of James Nash’s archive, which was due to be destroyed Website: evelynmcgrillen.com
KATELYN MCKENNA The Concern for Privacy Privacy is necessary for human society to function. This project questions the risks of exposing personal information online as well as highlighting ways to protect it. Image caption: Illustration included in GDPR awareness posters Website: kmckdesign.wordpress.com
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TAYLA MCNAMEE Safe Space The project aims to dissolve the normalisation of sexual harassment on nights out. Through the collection of stories, it visually conveys the reality that nightclubs today are not a safe space. Image caption: Illustration of a moment of harassment in a nightclub Instagram: taylamcnamee
SHANE MELLY Affective Machines
Affective Machines raises concerns regarding the double edged sword of ‘affective computing’. Its goals include replicating human emotion via bio data collection of willing and potentially unwilling individuals. Image caption: No Emotion Found, illustration by Shane Melly Instagram: bit.sharp
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SUZY MENTON Displacement This project focuses on and interrogates the negative impact that gentrification has on society. It looks closely at antigentrification anarchists groups and people who have been subjected to this process. Image caption: Projections of Anarchy and Crisis Associated with Gentrification Instagram: suzy_menton
SARAH MOONEY Body Not Gender ‘Body Not Gender’ is a brand created to express and advertise gender neutral clothing within the Irish market. Image caption: Logo for brand BNG (Body Not Gender) Email: sarahmmooney95@gmail.com
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ANNIE MORIARTY Hot Dog This project celebrates all things about the dog, including delving into a dog’s psychic side and astrological sun signs. The project aims to encourage a greater appreciation for these complex pooches. Image caption: Poster Website: anniemoriarty.com
JESSICA NEVILLE T.R.E.A.T yourself: Thrive, Relax, Eat, Act, Trust This project aims to inform about the side effects of breast cancer surgery; educate on ways to deal with issues that may occur; stimulate conversation; and encourage awareness on this subject. Image caption: Still from an animation piece on breast cancer Instagram: jessicaeneville
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LAUREN SHANNON O’BRIEN Every Now & Then Memories of time and events throughout our lives will eventually get blurry with no more exact detail. This is one of my personal fears, forgetting moments of importance. Image caption: I never thought about it being me next Instagram: laurenredderhead
SARAH O’NEILL Grey Area: A Catalyst for Conversation This project aims to highlight the prominent role of women in architecture and examines why there is a large discrepancy between the number of female graduates and practicing professionals in Ireland today. Image caption: Poster for Gender: An Architectural Agenda student-led exhibition. Behance: sarahoneil0fc0
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AMBER OOSTHUIZEN The Life of a Cow This work challenges the public to imagine their beloved house dog living the life of a cow in a creative and thought-provoking manner. Image caption: Frame from the animation The Life of a Cow Instagram: amberleigh_movement_
NATHAN O’SHEA The Wool, The Ash & The Willow To better understand my own identity as an Irish designer, I have studied, from scratch, the processes involved in craft and design, which are inherently Irish. Image caption: The Basket-Maker of Aran Email: nathanoshea.design@gmail.com
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CLODAGH OXLEY Fuinseog A celebration of one of Ireland’s most common trees – Ash. This project explores all aspects, from the spirtual and historical significance of the ash, to its use in the woodcraft industry. Instagram: clodaghoxley
LIV RÜGER What Won’t You Tell Me? For more efficient communication in the workplace, we need to learn how to read nonverbal signs correctly. This course will help in understanding the different body language of common archetypes. Image caption: Archetypes of nonverbal communicators should efficiently work together like building blocks Website: livrueger.wordpress.com
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REBECCA REZNOR Wrespect
Wrespect is a project aimed at bringing respect to the sport of pro-wrestling. Wrespect aims to inform the public of the hard road of training, injury and passion that goes into pro-wrestling. Image caption: Wrespect; the Men and Women Behind the Gimmicks. Photographed by: John Morrissey Instagram: RebeccaReznor
LORCAN RUSH Public Dancing & All That Jazz This work explores Ireland’s archaic attitudes towards public dancing, epitomised by the 1935 Public Dance Halls Act. Dancing as a social and cultural activity in Ireland is damaged by this Act. Image caption: Speculative Design for Future Dancehalls Website: lorcanrush.com
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SAOIRSE SUVARI Who are the Kurds? A project about the Kurdish people. The aim of the project is to educate and inform Irish people about Kurdish history; their years of oppression and genocide. Image caption: Still from moving image piece Who are the Kurds? Instagram: SaoirseSuvari
EMILY TREACY How To Start Your Own Country Throughout history, nations have been separating and getting smaller. For this project, I will be starting my own country and showing you how to do the same. Image caption: Three suggestions from Leo Varadakar Website: emilytreacy.com
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DAVID TYRRELL Fight or Flight
Fight or Flight is a look at Irish creatives at home and abroad; the opportunities available to them, and their reasons for leaving, or returning, to Ireland. Image caption: At Work Instagram: daveytyrrell_
EVA VERHULST From Scissors to Strand
From Scissors to Strand investigates the personal relationship we have with our hair. It aims to push past the comfort zone and explore the unique style within every strand. Image caption: Illustration from the publication A–Z of Hairstyles and Every Strand In-between Instagram: eva_underconstruction
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BA (Joint Hons) Design (Visual Communication) & Education Joint Honours Fine Art (Visual Communication) & Education
SHARON O’HORA Student Accommodation in Dublin This project aims to inform, communicate and create awareness of the absurd and ridiculous facilities and conditions third level students deal with while renting in Dublin. Image caption: Illustration Instagram: sharon_ohora
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN FOR BODY & ENVIRONMENT BA (HONS) FASHION DESIGN
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RACHAEL BEGLEY From Adam’s Rib Inspired by generational perceptions of the Bible & its stories, this collection juxtaposes garments which are poignantly ecclesiastical in form with disproportionately oversized tailoring, creating a silhouette reminiscent of playing dress-up as a child. Image caption: Grey wool coat, cotton organdie dress, downproof cotton bib Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: rachaelcbegley@gmail.com
MEGAN CAMPION Rooted The concept underpinning this collection is ‘earthing’; a holistic healing method involving direct interactions with the environment. Aimed at constructing a restorative tactile experience, it integrates organic resources and handmaking techniques. References include handcrafted leather, basketry and flora. Image caption: Tussah silk top with pressed flower detail, cork trousers with handcrafted strapping/interlocking seams, hessian bag Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: meganccampion@gmail.com
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SIRANEE CAULFIELD – SRIKLAD An Imagined Community : 66353 This collection is inspired by my Asian/ Irish heritage. Ethnicity can be difficult to define when one’s identity lies between two cultures. Through an exploration of shape and fabrication, this collection aims to translate this cultural confusion into conversations on the body. Image caption: Thai silk shirt and sabai, printed silk organza shirt with wool trousers Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: siranee.caulfieldsriklad@gmail.com
AMY DINNEEN N.I.N.A A historical investigation into anti-Irish sentiment prevalent in mid 19th century America inspired this contemporary collection of transformable garments. The subject of discrimination and fear remains current in our society. Image caption: Black cotton detachable sleeves with oversized wool coat and lilac under dress Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: amydinneen@gmail.com
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ROISIN DOCKRY Gleoiteog A collection inspired by the unique concave structure of the Galway hooker, curved seams and voluminous shapes are re-created in luxurious silks and neoprenes. Block and tackle details inspire the perspex accessories which punctuate this cohesive collection. Image caption: Voluminous neoprene trousers tied at the waist with lazercut perspex Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: roisindockry@gmail.com
NIAMH FLYNN ‘Same Same But Different’ My purpose as a designer is to use fashion as a platform to provoke conversations that challenge our unconscious racial bias. This collection of transformable sportswear pieces challenges the wearer to consider alternative interactions with clothing. Image caption: Mesh leotard with organic navy ‘backpack’ dress and cherry wood waistband Photographed by: Aron Cahill Website: niamhflynn.portfoliobox.net/
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JORDAN HANNON What can you do when you live in a shoe? A reflection on my social experience growing up in the Liberties. Particularly rooted in the dress of the teenage boy, brought to light through vibrant colours inspired by flamboyant trainers. Image caption: Quilted jacket under cape with elasticated pocket detail Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: jordanhannon44@gmail.com
SARAH HERAUGHTY Pellicle ‘A Disused Shed in Co.Wexford’ – Derek Mahon, is the inspiration underpinning this menswear collection. Through a multiplicity of fabrication techniques these garments acknowledge the fading eco symbiosis of rural communities. Image caption: A deconstructed utilitarian cotton drill boilersuit with tea painted surface texture, buckram bib Photographed by: Aron Cahill Instagram: sarahheraughty
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CIARA MASTERSON Rougham Celebrating, through photography and surface texture, traces of a life once lived on family farmland in West Cork. The collection is driven by the pressing issue of over-consumption in the fashion industry and is an investigation into how clothing can be more versatile and sustainable. Image caption: Waterproof reversible coat with adjustable sleeves, holding plasticencased knitted backpack Photographed by: Aron Cahil Instagram: ciaramasterson
COLTON MCGUIRK ‘Boy’s Who Don’t Wear Pink’ Inspired by undergarments from the 18th century. Pinpointed elements of corsetry with a juxtaposition of male and female construction to inform silhouette. The collection highlights the queer culture at the time with reference to drag and non-binary trends. Image caption: Silk blouse, organdie corset dress, embellished corset with organdie jacket Photographed by: Aron Cahill Instagram: coltonmcg.damseldv
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INDIA MCHUGH Pieces of Ann My collection is inspired by memories of my grandmother and the objects that defined her. A blend of sportswear shapes and feminine details, using lace embellishments on knit and quilted grounds. Image caption: Quilted wool coat over knit embellished jumper and shorts Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: indiamchugh@gmail.com
SUSAN ROGERS Gate 49: Now Boarding A womenswear collection inspired by familial memories of growing up in a sectarian environment in Belfast. Through exploration into my grandparents’ occupations during The Troubles and my personal experiences, this work attempts to visually capture an emotional past. Image caption: Hand dyed, felted knit dress with buckram over-piece Photographed by: Aron Cahill Website: wearbyser.com
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ALEKSANDRA SATALA Haft My collection is inspired by traditional Polish clothing. The decorative textures and details of these garments are reinterpreted as modern occasion wear using laser cutting, cement pleating, 3D crochet and embroidery. Image caption: Laser cut embroidery layered over a satin cement pleated skirt with gathered tulle petticoat Photographed by: Aron Cahill Instagram: aleksandra.satala
ALA SINKEVICH Existential Nomad The collection is based on the nesting dolls principle. Inspired by archetypes of nomadic cultures around the world, timeless garments executed in sustainable materials using heritage techniques, reflect on personal multicultural experience and migration. Image caption: Sculptural hand-felted coat layered over quilted linen caftan and dress Photographed by: Aron Cahill Website: alla.ie
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DARYL O’DEA In the land of green and blue A homage to Howth Harbour, a constant in my childhood. Hand dyed yarns are juxtaposed with sturdy cottons, linens and balsa wood strips to produce a collection of knitwear and structured pieces. Image caption: Hand dyed jumper with linen skirt and balsa wood Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: odeadaryl@gmail.com
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN FOR BODY & ENVIRONMENT BA (HONS) JEWELLERY & OBJECTS
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SAVANNAH FOX Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there Just because you don’t see something, doesn’t mean it’s not there. This collection of jewellery aims to raise awareness of issues surrounding mental health. Curiosity leads to understanding. Image caption: Earrings: Silicone, sterling silver, acrylic Instagram: savannahfox_jewellery
FIONA NEVIN Impression Fiona’s work is informed by the mark making on her everyday environment. Through exploring textures, colours and forms, she shows how traces left behind have created new senses of place. Image caption: Brass and leather earring set Website: fifinev.wixsite.com/mysite-1
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ELŽBIETA PRANSKUTĖ Break the Mould My work explores the topic of selfimage. Pieces of nylon filament breaking through the silicone ‘mould’ symbolise the fact that it is okay to deviate from society’s ideals. Image caption: Necklace: Silicone, nylon filament, rose gold plated gilding metal Instagram: lizzy_pranskute_jewellery
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HEATHER MARTIN DALY Protrusions When exploring Toronto I was drawn in by the architecture protruding from the surface of the city. This inspired me to design a collection of architectural jewellery encasing fimo pieces. Image caption: Ring: Silver, fimo Email: h_martindaly@hotmail.com
Joint Honours Design (Jewellery & Objects) & Education
RAMINTA MIKULIČIŪTĖ Lunaria My work is inspired by the Botanical Gardens. Through the investigating of organic shapes and unexpected lines of seedpods, I combine thin silver and embossed paper to create my jewellery collection. Image caption: Earrings: Silver, embossed paper Instagram: r_m_jewellery_art
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN FOR BODY & ENVIRONMENT BA (HONS) TEXTILE & SURFACE DESIGN
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EVE BRADBURY Tactility My work is inspired by textured surfaces within nature. This printed textile interior collection explores tactility and lighting qualities through various techniques on fabrics, such as devore etching onto velvets. Image caption: Close up of textured print on transparent window treatment Instagram: eve_bradbury_textiles
NIAMH COYLE Muted Cities This interior textile collection is motivated by the issues surrounding noise pollution in urban spaces. By exploring acoustic and tactile materials, my collection will help improve how we experience a space. Image caption: Discharge print on Irish Linen Instagram: niamhcoyletextiles
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SIMONE EVERITT Plants, Health and Healing An interior textile collection inspired by healing plants, which is intended for boutique hotels and spa environments. Print techniques are explored on sheer cottons, linens and silk organza. Image caption: Screen designs and fabric sampling Instagram: simonedrop
SHEILA FINNAMORE Coast ___________ Line Through my designs and techniques I aim to create textiles that stimulate a sensory response through tactile engagement. Light travels through the fibres creating different forms, organic movement and transparency. Image caption: ‘Dillisk’ – Copper Tide Email: sheilafinnamore@eircom.net
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ANNA GARDINER Amarelo I have created a collection of handwoven throw designs with ‘Big twills’, fringe trims and floats, using hand-dyed merino wool, mohair, and wool tops. Textures inspired by the West of Ireland are infused with the vibrant colours associated with Brazil. Image caption: A mixture of colours and textures woven together to create flamboyant throws Instagram: annag_textiles_
LINDSEY HOGARTY Complex order A screen and digitally printed interior textile collection for all who enjoy colour and complexity. I am inspired by the meticulous complexity within which individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder tend to get lost. Image caption: Pigment printed on heavy cotton Email: lindseyhogarty1@gmail.com
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NICOLA HUTCHINSON A Numbers Game This is a printed fabric collection for fashion that aims to question the contemporary norm of evaluating human worth in the digital age through emphasising bold colour and idiosyncratic tactility. Image caption: Pigment and puff on Neoprene Instagram: nicola_hutchinson
CLAIRE MALONE Rare imprints My fashion textiles collection explores rarity and questions what is precious in today’s society. By taking inspiration from Dublin’s archival collections, the beauty of the natural world is communicated. Image description: Laser cut gold leatherette Email: clairemalonedesign@gmail.com
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CILLIAN MORRISON A Classic Endeavour High quality fabrics, an eclectic mix of influences and unusual printing processes combine to offer lovingly crafted forever fabrics. Image caption: Silk satin, illumination acid print Website: softbones.studio
LUCY O’BRIEN Margin My collection is inspired by modern architecture. I take abstract shapes and linear qualities from my photography and bring them into my woven designs using plant based materials only. Image caption: Details of large woven piece using organic cotton and bamboo Email: lucyobrien090@gmail.com
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HELEN O’KEEFE Juxtaposition An Autumn Winter unisex collection exploring the relationship between hypermodernity and dereliction and the meeting point between sleek and rough, matt and waxed, order and disorder. Image caption: Detail of screen printed striped cotton for Autumn Winter collection Instagram: helen_okeefe_design
PATIENCE UBA Ethical This is a collection of woven fabric for contemporary boutique hotel interiors. Inspired by buildings and abstract imagery from Dublin City, and influenced by African design and traditional weaving methods, the aim is to create luxurious fabrics for curtains and bed throws that can be produced by hand-weavers on narrow back-strap looms. Image caption: Spun silk woven with tassel edging for bed throws Email: patienceuba887@yahoo.co.uk
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Joint Honours Design (Textile & Surface Design) & Education
JULIE BOYLAN JuJu Julie’s work explores the juxtaposition of colour and texture inspired by sushi. Structure and order is also contrasted with fun and playfulness to create a cohesive and considered collection. Image caption: Woven sample using unconventional materials Email: jb07--@hotmail.com
Joint Honours Design (Textile & Surface Design) & Education
NÓIRÍN O’BRIEN Next Year Inspired by the playful and optimistic spirit of New Year festivals, this versatile and fun fashion textile and accessories collection employs weave, screen, digital and sewn construction elements. Image caption: Woven scarf samples, paper construction and flock on velvet Email: noirinob@gmail.com
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SARAH MCALEVEY Leagan Iom
Leagan Iom (Laid Bare) is a collection using only natural fibres. It consists of rug designs for the home that are constructed using handmade yarns and a variety of woven techniques. Image caption: Series of natural, undyed linen spools that were used in my collection Email: sarahmack94@hotmail.com
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCT DESIGN BA (HONS) PRODUCT DESIGN
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BA (Hons) Product Design
MALISA DEVEREUX Nectar
Nectar is a card-based cashless system that facilitates extremely convenient donations to the homeless, which can be used to pay for a predefined range of essential goods and services. Imagine caption: Nectar card prototype in context Email: malisadev864@gmail.com
JAMES GILMARTIN SafeSkin
SafeSkin encourages foot safety in low risk areas such as retail and service. It allows the wearer to comply with employer regulations whilst maintaining the identity and comfort of their regular lifestyle shoes. Image caption: Process Website: linkedin.com/in/jamesgilmartin-b2960375/
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LIAM TRAYNOR EcoDome
EcoDome is a smart aquaponics system designed for urban living. The system grows small food gardens with minimum effort whilst educating the user about fish and plant care. Image caption: A working Prototype Behance: liamtrayno3826
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School of Design
SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCT DESIGN MA INTERACTION DESIGN
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The MA Interaction Design is a one-year studio based masters, which focuses on the design of digital applications, products, experiences, systems and services. Led by a human-centred approach, the MA brings together candidates from a range of creative and technical fields and prepares graduates to play a leading role in the development of emerging technology in society. This exhibition highlights some of the aspects of Interaction Design that the programme engages with including user experience design, service design, physical computing and speculative design. This year the students have collaborated with a range of external partners including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), S3 Connected Health, and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. In the display of the EPA project, the students have showcased not just the final outcomes, but also the design process behind the work. The projects on show also demonstrate a range of applied skills in the areas of coding and physical computing. Throughout their work the students question how we interact with new and emerging technology and seek to create new and meaningful experiences through design. The work captures a sense of their practice, which is fundamentally based on research and understanding, on testing and iteration, and on creativity tied to a sensitivity for the user.
Emma Creighton and Dr Marcus Hanratty MA Interaction Design Coordinators
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MA INTERACTION DESIGN STUDENTS The Graduate Exhibition features sample project work from the 1 year master’s programme Beth Alexander Maverick Andaloc Conor Bergin James Brady Mark Ennis Fiona Finegan Eoin Fitzpatrick Lexa Gallery Ronan Healy Shannen Keane Susan Kenny Paul O’Shaughnessy Siobhan Perry Ciara Reid
Conor Bergin, Customisable Dublin Bus Real-Time Display, 2018
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SCHOOL OF DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCT DESIGN MSC MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN
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MSc Medical Device Design
The MSc Medical Device Design is a one-year studio based masters which focuses on the design of medical devices, products, systems and experiences. Led by a human-centred approach, the MSc brings together candidates from a range of creative and technical fields and prepares graduates to play a leading role in the development of medical devices and associated technologies. During the course of the year the Medical Device Design students have completed projects with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI), Teleflex Medical, S3 Connected Health, The Mater Hospital, St. James’ Hospital, Hollister Medical and Medtronic. Much of this work is proprietary and commercially sensitive, however this years exhibition shows a selection of the work which is not and highlights the design process adopted by the students. The projects demonstrate a range of applied skills in the areas of human focused research, ideation, prototyping, testing and final design detailing. All of the projects exhibited are collaborative outputs from students working in teams. Each student has selected a project which they feel best showcases their design capabilities developed during the programme to date. Enda O’Dowd and Derek Vallence MSc Medical Device Design Coordinators
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MSC MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN STUDENTS The Graduate Exhibition features sample project work from the 1 year master’s programme Taufeeq Diju Erik James Goulding Clodagh Hogan Carolina Skemas De Britto Arthur Linnane Vivienne McNulty Kieron LeMen Timothy O’Sullivan Harry Osborne Ryan Paetzold Cristina Simona Purtill Sean Toomey Orla Trainor Rory West Robert Wylie
Intestine Model – Development of open appendectomy training simulator for RCSI by MSc MDD students
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School of Design
SCHOOL OF DESIGN MFA DESIGN
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The MFA in Design at NCAD provides an interdisciplinary framework for students who wish to master their design discipline in a two-year long studio setting. A major objective of the masters is to provide an environment that is broad, yet with enough rigour and focus to enable students to engage with the challenges of contemporary creative practice in the design professions. The programme encourages students to integrate research, creative practice and critical theory, and develop a body of professional work that positions the student on the global stage. This year we have had the pleasure of welcoming a number of visiting students from across Europe to join the programme, helping create a dynamic international studio culture. The students have developed a personal creative and professional identity and proficiency in design and technique. This has been supported through a mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials and live projects. The work on show captures this creative journey, and focuses on exploring the diverse range of design processes and methods being used and developed by the MFA in Design students across a range of disciplines including service design, product design and communication design. Professor Alex Milton Head of the School of Design
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MFA DESIGN YEAR 2 STUDENT Rachel Marsden
MFA DESIGN YEAR 1 STUDENTS The Graduate Exhibition features a curated selection of work in progress Richard Belton Aaron Connolly Andrea Cullen Katie Hanlon Saara Kantele Eleanor McMahon Amber Penders Karina Vitina Ze Ting Wang Shauna Woods
RACHEL MARSDEN Death Wishes
Death Wishes breaks down the taboos associated with discussing death. It facilitates conversation and encourages users to plan ahead for what is one of life’s few certainties. Image Caption: Death Wishes Kit, H105 x W230 x D55mm Email: marsdenr@tcd.ie
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School of Education
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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The School of Education in NCAD provides two initial teacher education (ITE) programmes for the artist or designer who wishes to become an art teacher. These professional teaching qualifications (recognised by the Teaching Council) enable our students to develop their capacities both as artists and designers, while also preparing and honing their skills for second level teaching. The four-year BA Joint Hons in Fine Art or Design and Education (the concurrent model), and the postgraduate two-year Professional Master of Education (PME) (the consecutive model) provide a variety of school placements within the programme. We also offer a Further Education (FE) teaching qualification for those interested in working in the field of adult education at postgraduate level. Alongside the full time pathways, we provide a range of evening programmes in art and design through our Continuing Education in Art and Design (CEAD) programme. The School of Education at NCAD recognises that learning through the subject discipline of art is an essential factor in the student’s successful identity formation as artists, designers and as teachers. For our students, it is the distinctive qualities of art-making and art-thinking, alongside an engagement with their pupils that attracts them to teaching. The nature of this qualification means that graduates from the School of Education in NCAD may continue to extend their subject knowledge beyond teaching, into various art-related practices, or even have concurrent careers as practitioners and teachers. Professor Dervil Jordan, Head of the School of Education
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION BA (JOINT HONS) IN FINE ART OR DESIGN & EDUCATION
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JULIE BOYLAN
DEIRDRE BRACKEN
Joint Honours Design (Textile Surface Design) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
St. Mary’s Diocesan School, Drogheda, Co. Louth
St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin
C.B.S James’ Street, Dublin 8
St. Aidan’s Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24
The Donahies Community School, Grange, Dublin 13
Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown, Dublin 12
SINÉAD BRESLIN
SARAH DEMPSEY
Joint Honours Fine Art (Print) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Print) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
Wesley College, Ballinteer, Dublin 16
Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Firhouse Community College, Firhouse, Dublin 24 St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin
Lusk Community College, Lusk, Co. Dublin
HANNAH DOHERTY
MARK DORAN
Joint Honours Fine Art (Sculpture & Expanded Practice) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Ceramics & Glass) & Education
Teaching placements:
St. Peter’s College, Dunboyne, Co. Meath
Pobalscoil Iosolde, Johnstown, Dublin 20 Loreto High School Beaufort, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 Stewarts Care, Palmerstown, Dublin 20
Teaching placements:
Ratoath College, Ratoath, Co. Meath St Michael’s Secondary School, Finglas, Co. Dublin
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HEIDI DWYER
MUIREANN HANLON
Joint Honours Fine Art (Sculpture & Expanded Practice) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Textile Art & Artefact) & Education
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St. Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Cabra, Dublin 7
Margaret Aylward Community College, Whitehall, Dublin 9 Adamstown Community College, Lucan, Co. Dublin Scoil Mochua, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
Teaching placements:
St Fintan’s High School, Sutton, Dublin 13 Rockford Manor School, Blackrock, Dublin 4
SÍLE HUGHES
FIONA HURSON
Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Ceramics & Glass) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
St Paul’s Secondary School, Greenhills, Dublin 12
St. Louis Secondary School, Tirkeenan, Co. Monaghan
St Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas, Dublin 11
St Joseph’s CBS Secondary School, Fairview, Dublin 3
The Donahies Community School, Grange, Dublin 13
Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore, Dublin 8
LAURA KIELY
CLAIRE LAMBERT
Joint Honours Fine Art (Textile Art & Artefact) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Textile Art & Artefact) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
St Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Cabra, Dublin 7
Coláiste Chraobh Abhann, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
Blakestown Community School, Coolmine, Dublin 15
Woodbrook College, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Dunshaughlin Community College, Knocks, Co. Meath
Saint John of God - Carmona Services, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
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HEATHER MARTIN DALY
SARAH MCALEVEY
Joint Honours Design (Jewellery & Objects) & Education
Joint Honours Design (Textile & Surface Design) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
Terenure College, Terenure, Dublin 6W
Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore, Dublin 8
Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown, Dublin 12 Our Lady’s Hospital School, Crumlin, Dublin 12
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School, Saint Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8
RACHEL MCCABE
REBECCA MCCARTHY
Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Textile Art & Artefact) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
Ardscoil La Salle, Raheny, Dublin 5
Loreto High School Beaufort, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
Presentation Community College, Terenure, Dublin 6W
RAMINTA MIKULIČIŪTĖ
NÓIRÍN O’BRIEN
Joint Honours Design (Jewellery & Objects) & Education
Joint Honours Design (Textile Surface Design) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
St. Joseph’s CBS Secondary School, Fairview, Dublin 3
Trinity Comprehensive Secondary School, Santry, Dublin 9
St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin
Maryfield College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
Our Lady of Mercy College, Beaumont, Dublin 9
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BA (Joint Hons) in Fine Art or Design & Education
DARYL O’DEA
SHARON O’HORA
Joint Honours Design (Fashion Design) & Education
Joint Honours Design (Visual Communication) & Education
Teaching placements:
Teaching placements:
St. Paul’s CBS Secondary School, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7
The Donahies Community School, Grange, Dublin 13
Ardscoil La Salle, Raheny, Dublin 5
Larkin Community College, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1
Sutton Park School, Sutton, Dublin 13
Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
DEBORAH STRUMBLE
JADE WALSH
Joint Honours Fine Art (Sculpture & Expanded Practice) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education
Teaching placements:
St. Paul’s CBS, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7
Scoil Mhuire, Clane, Co. Kildare Coláiste Bríde, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 Scoil Mochua, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
Teaching placements:
Holy Family Community School, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin
LEIGH WALSH
CATHY WHELAN
Joint Honours Fine Art (Sculpture & Expanded Practice) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Ceramics & Glass) & Education
Teaching placements:
Presentation College Carlow, Askea, Co. Carlow
Loreto College, Foxrock, Dublin 18 Balbriggan Community College, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin Saint John of God - Carmona Services, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
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St Leo’s College, Graigue, Co. Carlow Stewarts Care, Kilcloon, Co. Meath
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KATIE WISE Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education Teaching placements: FCJ Secondary School, Bunclody, Co. Wexford Mount Anville Secondary School, Goatstown, Dublin 14 Tallaght Community Arts, RUA RED, Tallaght, Dublin 24
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School of Hons) Education BA (Joint in Fine Art or Design & Education
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF EDUCATION 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 2103). The question, what does it mean to teach and make art that is of and for our time? anchored this PME cohorts experience of the programme. It was explored through many facets including their design and delivery of curriculum in post primary education, research inquiries and learning encounters that involved peer tutoring, special educational needs placements 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 they think, contextualise and make work as artists informs their methodology as teachers. The Change Lab experience and exhibition in the NCAD gallery in 2017, gave the student teachers the opportunity to do just that. This sought to support the teachers in exploring a global development issue through their art and design practice. The Change Lab was about the duality that exists between pedagogy and practice from the lens of the artist and, in turn, the activist-educator. Fiona King Professional Master of Education, Coordinator
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ANDREA BYRNE Research dissertation: An Evaluation of Special Education Needs Provision and Policy in an Irish Post-Primary Mainstream School Teaching placements: St. Dominic’s College, Cabra, Dublin 7 Hartstown Community School, Hartstown, Dublin 15 Image caption: Shrine to the Discarded – lino print on paper @ The Change Lab, NCAD Gallery, 2017 Website: deabyrne@gmail.com
PATRICK DEVALLY Research dissertation: Investigating the application of ICT in the post primary art and design curriculum to facilitate learning in the classroom Teaching placements: The High School, Rathgar, Dublin 6 Moate Community School, Moate, Co. Westmeath Image caption: Development Education module exhibition photograph Email: patrick.devally@hotmail.com
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Professional Master of Education
DEIRDRE DOOLIN Research dissertation: The Enablers and Challenges of Implementing Group Work in the Class: a case study in a rural school Teaching placements: Salesians College Celbridge, Celbridge, Co. Kildare Coláiste Íosagáin, Portarlington, Co. Laois Image caption: Shrine to the Discarded Website: deirdredoolin20.wixsite.com/mysite
PETER FLAHERTY Research dissertation: What Impact has Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health and Social Skills? Teaching placements: Our Lady’s School, Terenure, Dublin 6W St Joseph’s Special School, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Image Caption: Special educational needs placement mosaics Instagram: notanotherartteacher
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RHIAN FOLEY Research dissertation: The inclusion of students with diagnosed special educational needs in mainstream post-primary art education from the perspective of the art teacher in a south-east region of Ireland Teaching placements: Gorey Community School, Gorey, Co. Wexford St. Patrick’s School, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford Coláiste Bríde Secondary School, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford Image caption: Guerrilla gardening on the green, a transition year art project in Coláiste Bríde Email: rhiraone@eircom.net
CONOR HORGAN-GAUL Research dissertation: Through a Different Lens: The role of contemporary lens based media practice in promoting learner identity in Irish art education Teaching placements: Woodbrook College, Bray, Co. Wicklow Ballinteer Community School, Ballinteer, Dublin 16 ARC, SJOG Carmona Services, Glenageary, Co. Dublin Image caption: Exploring traditional photographic practice. 5th year photography project, Woodbrook College Email: chorgangaul@gmail.com
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Professional Master of Education
AGNIESZKA JAROTA Research dissertation: An Exploration of the Impact of Mindfulness on Secondary School Art Teachers Teaching placements: Pobalscoil Neasáin, Baldoyle, Dublin 13 Maynooth Post Primary, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Image caption: ‘Social Awareness Campaign – Photomontage’, 5th year mixed media project, Maynooth Post Primary Email: agnieszkajarotadesign@gmail.com
JOSH JOYCE Research dissertation: An Exploration of the Congruity between the Junior Cycle Visual Art Specification and the NCAD Portfolio Guidelines: An investigation into the tensions and synergies that exist between the two pedagogical approaches Teaching placements: St Mary’s Diocesan School, Drogheda, Co. Louth Skerries Community College, Skerries, Co. Dublin Mill Lane, Stewarts Care, Palmerstown, Dublin 20 Image caption: Small Business Shark. Comic book cover from animation class, 2017 Website: joshjoyce.ie
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AISLING LANIGAN Research dissertation: Discuss and Reflect: Exploring Social Justice Issues Through Craft Teaching placements: St Joseph’s College Lucan, Lucan, Co. Dublin Alexandra College, Milltown, Co. Dublin Image caption: A message to share, student’s work at St Joseph’s College Lucan Email: aislingstronglanigan@hotmail.com
NIAMH LAWLER Research dissertation: Gender Representation in SelfPortraiture: Investigating the value and impact of female students studying contemporary female artists Teaching placements: St. Leo’s College, Graigue, Co. Carlow Roslyn Park College, Beach Rd, Dublin 4 St. Joseph’s Mercy Secondary School, Navan, Co. Meath Image caption: Working with collaborator Josh Joyce on development education project in the Change Lab, NCAD Gallery Email: niamhlawler27@gmail.com
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CORMAC MAC ATEER Research dissertation: Is the online world an apt arena for adolescent development? Teaching placements: Sutton Park School, Sutton, Dublin 13 Colรกiste de hร de, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Image caption: Self Portrait Website: macateercormac.wixsite.com/illustrator
EVA MAHER Research dissertation: Discovering the Edge: Can the Principles of Permaculture be integrated into art and design education? Teaching placements: East Glendalough School, Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow Colรกiste Croabh Abhann, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow Image caption: 1st Year development education installation entitled Stories of Home Email: evamaher5@gmail.com
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GEMMA MCGUINNESS Research dissertation: The art teacher/art therapist perception of the potential use of art therapy methodologies within the mainstream secondary art school classroom and/ or school Teaching placements: Marino College, Fairview, Dublin 3 Inver College, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan Image caption: A Lasting Impression. Impression making in plaster Email: gmcguinness33@gmail.com
CARLY MOFFITT Research dissertation: Drawing Parallels: A Content Analysis of Junior Cycle Visual Art and QQI Level 3 Art and Design Teaching placements: St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin Lusk Community College, Lusk, Co. Dublin Image caption: Craftivism in Action, at the Change Lab. NCAD Gallery, 2017 Email: moffitt.carly@gmail.com
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MICHAEL MURPHY Research dissertation: What value is the psycho-educational assessment for the dyslexic students in Post Primary schools? Teaching placements: St. Mary’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 Synge St. CBS, St. Kevin’s Road, Dublin 8 Holy Family School for the Deaf Cabra, Cabra West, Dublin 7 Email: syngefield@gmail.com
CÓILÍN RUSH Research dissertation: Deaf Education and Mainstream Inclusion in Ireland: An Examination of Policy and Practice at Second Level Teaching placements: St. Marks Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Killinarden Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Scoil Mochua, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 Image Caption: Research for The Change Lab, NCAD Gallery, 2017 Website: coilinrush.com
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Making decisions about practice based on the research carried out, is a really important learned ability for our students. Assembling the resources necessary to follow decisions is an equally important skill and capacity. Resources can mean a multitude of things that create a space in the mind of the viewer. Art has the brilliant capacity to create meaning not only through what might be intended, but also through how it is proposed in practice. This is a fundamental act of communication and continues to shapeshift as part of our contemporary culture. NCAD educates people who are able to see wider opportunities, ideas and issues – with the potential to act on them… with others. This is to say that your peer group are also a resource and a body of people who will be in the thick of things, formally and informally, for the longer haul – who will appear again, making, doing and finding ways of making things matter that are known and not yet imagined or connected. The School of Fine Art offers a suite of Masters Programmes that will meet you in a new level of professionalisation also, when you are ready – now or later. Robert Armstrong has been connecting knowledge and experience through the language of paint and through art education. He will retire as Head of Painting after 15 years this Summer. I know I speak for all the staff and students in wishing him a compelling time ahead. His particular acumen will be missed by us all. Professor Philip Napier Head of the School of Fine Art
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SCHOOL OF FINE ART DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATERIALS (CERAMICS & GLASS) BA (HONS) IN FINE ART (APPLIED MATERIAL CULTURES)
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DYLAN BEACON Melancholy City I explore the mind as a fortress and examine the internal chatter in response to bullying. These towers symbolise the melancholic side of the person’s mind where dark thoughts lie hidden and protected. Image caption: Hand-built black stoneware Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Instagram: dylanbeaconart
NAOMI BOYLAN Autonomy My interests lie in the female condition and how its cultural definition is being shaped by the current discourse surrounding events in the media and society. Image caption: Autonomy One, 2018 Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Website: naomiboylanart.com
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JILLIAN HANRAHAN Kaleida Dyslexic Using cut blown forms, my work explores the nature of light and its impact on colour and colour combinations. Kinetic movement, both visual and physical, is also important. Image caption: Optical illusion with colours Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Email: artistjillyhanrahan@gmail.com
BONNIE KAVANAGH Gehenna The necessity of grief. So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850) Image caption: Still Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Instagram: bonniek_ceramics
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SHANE KEELING Man Oh Man My work addresses the sensitive subject of suicide, particularly in young males. The intention is to open a dialogue to break the stigma of mental health. Instagram: Clay_Of_D_Day
MOIRA MCGRATH Mr. McGrath This project commenced through an exploration of my Dad’s compulsion to ration and reuse tea bags. Each work is created in the hot shop exploring gesture, form and colour. Image caption: Disregarded Photographed by: Philip Lauterbauch Instagram: thereallizzcaprani
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MEGAN MCGUIRK Deception
Deception illustrates latent morals of fairy-tale narratives. ‘Fear... the wolf... the wolf may be more than he seems’ – Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves, 1979. Image caption: Beta Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Email: meganmcguirk@yahoo.co.uk
DESTINI REDPATH Presence
Presence embraces the ephemerality and physicality of processes and materiality. Aesthetically, my works are informed through the practices of making, mapping and mindfulness. Image caption: Ensō Email: destinidoherty96@gmail.com
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MARK DORAN Uphill Struggle This work is an exploration of the burdens of everyday life. Email: markcdoran@gmail.com
Joint Honours Fine Art (Ceramics & Glass) & Education
FIONA HURSON Remnants My work explores Alzheimer’s disease and seeks to address the fragility of the mind. The disease can quickly destroy memory and alter our perception of the world. Image caption: My name is Maureen Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Email: f.hurson23@gmail.com
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CATHY WHELAN Shadow Psycles Food, alcohol, drugs and social media are commonly used as mechanisms to self-sooth and escape feelings of stress and anxiety. My work represents conflicting states of consciousness associated with excessive and addictive behaviours. Image caption: Hand built stoneware Photographed by: Philip Lauterbach Email: cathyhwhelanceramics@gmail.com
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SCHOOL OF FINE ART DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATERIALS (TEXTILE ART & ARTEFACT) BA (HONS) FINE ART (APPLIED MATERIAL CULTURES)
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AOIFE BANKS Structural Collapse
Structural Collapse follows the journey of female resistance against the patriarchal and imperial power structures prevalent in post-colonial Bangladesh’s fast fashion garment factories. Image caption: Material Investigation. Pleated cotton and concrete Instagram: aoifebanks
TRACY FLOOD One’s trash is another’s treasure Exposing the beauty and potential of leftover materials destined for landfill just because they have become redundant to others. What happens within abandoned spaces if these materials come alive? Image caption: Divine Diva Instagram: tracyfloodvisualartist
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JESSICA FRAYNE Nature’s Way An exploration of colour, texture and form, through documentation and collage of the natural world we surround ourselves in. Image caption: Hand dyed knitted sample Email: fraynejessica@gmail.com
RACHEL GRAINGER Σειρήν (Siren) The ocean is so powerful, but voiceless in society. As humans exploit and destroy it, the work questions: if the ocean could be the activist/artist, what would it say? Image caption: Photograph of performance on Sandymount Strand Instagram: rachellouisegrainger
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ENYA HAND When you forget I will remember for both of us This work explores the power, trauma and heartache of a person who suffers with Alzheimer’s disease. Mnemosyne, the Goddess of memory, could not intercede on the part of humanity. Instagram: enyaaaar
BRIGETTE HOULIHAN Journey to the Contentment of Isolation The Journey to the Contentment of Isolation represents a path combining contrasting materials to construct enclosures recording feelings of passion, regret and pure happiness through modern and conceptual architecture. Image caption: The sinking house, before it sank. Balsa Wood Photographed by: Orla Gemayel Instagram: brigette_artist
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CATHY JACKSON Metamorphose Here lies the empty carcass that once held the woman. Distressed, and abused, hanging in chains like a prisoner incarcerated. The parasites attack, and consume her internally. Image caption: The Hanging carcass Instagram: Kat.jak.art.
SUZANNE KEARNEY Natural Connection Made from compostable waste materials, this multifunctional community garden bag aims to connect urban dwellers with nature. It can be used to grow plants, vegetables or hold compost. Image caption: Hand-stitched hessian plant bag Email: suzannekearney900@yahoo.com
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AMY KEE Entering the Anthropocene This work is based on how human interference has given way to the rise of climate change adaptation, in particular the development of plant regeneration and genetic variability. Image caption: Artificial selection, hybrids and fragmented narratives through embroidered textiles Email: a.kee80@hotmail.com
MEABH KELLEGHER There’s Strength in Softness I investigated the dichotomy of strength and vulnerability through femininity. Exploring sexuality through its association with fruit; the sexual connotations implied by the representation of fruit in art, i.e. cherry = virginity. Instagram: meabhkellegher
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PATRICIA LEAHY CORCORAN Anicca – impermanence The life cycle – birth, life, death and rebirth is central to my work, as is the Theravada Buddhism belief that all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing. Image caption: Photograph: Nature left nude Email: plcsoars@gmail.com
MIHAI MAR Confetti Romeo A subversive knitwear collection inspired by unrequited affection, which takes its influence from Japan’s fetishisation of artificial beings and technology’s effects on sexual isolation. Image caption: Hand-drawn illustration Instagram: mii_haii
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MARK MOLLOY Ode A reflection on my experience so far living as a queer individual. The ones that I’ve encountered and the actions and emotions that surround us. An ode to unashamed desire. Instagram: markmolloy_
DAVID MURPHY Perfumes of Arabia My work focuses on the cultural obsession with the Tragic Female Celebrity in Western Pop Culture, and in the spectacle of their fall from grace. Instagram: davebmurphy
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GRĂ INNE MURPHY Not Everything is Black and White The value of the female tradition of making now manifests as making art by females and as such opens up a much broader discussion. Email: grainnemurphyvisualartist@gmail.com
SADHBH MURPHY Super Hyper-Feminine Team Dreamy Queer Universe This project is a celebration and an exploration of modern queer femininity through integrated text, colour, and playful wearables. The work draws from experiences of life within the queer community. Image caption: Embroidery Website: SadhbhMurphy.com
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JESS MYERS The Broken Iris Exploring the parallels between sleep disorders and the human psyche, I hope to challenge the viewers’ understanding of mental health and get people talking about this growing problem. Instagram: jessmyersart
CLÍODHNA NÍ GHABHANN Faoi Gheasa Draíochta (Under a Magical Spell) Inspired by Irish myth, legend and language; my work explores the unsettling found in nature. I place particular emphasis on using my own hair in my making. Image caption: Scuab Gruaige (Hair Brush) Instagram: cliodhna_textiles_art
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ANNE O’ROURKE A Natural Opulence Through wearable pieces, the work investigates the hazardous relationship humans have with bees, and focuses on keeping sustainability a key element in the production of the crafted outcomes. Image caption: Sample outcome in “Greed” Instagram: annie_o_r
ELLEN O’TOOLE Replicating Texture; Chaos and Pattern Inspired by feet stretching stockings. Contorting weaves in varied thickness over the body, and mapping compressions; then replicating in paint. Chaotic patterns emerge. A project with drawing, knitting, and fabric stretching. Image caption: One night, many circles. Over 12 hours, patterns emerge Instagram: Nelle_Elooto
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MUIREANN HANLON Engagement within the public realm with playful sculptures, allows participants a moment of creativity. These art objects open up a discussion on the accessibility of art and the gallery experience. Image caption: #curiosityinstilled Instagram: visualartistmhanlon
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LAURA KIELY Do Not Touch Building on the traditional rug making techniques used by the National Council for the Blind Ireland (NCBI), this project explores how combining braille with sensory materials and processes can improve how visually impaired people experience visual art. Image caption: Layered photography and Braille notebook page Website: laurakielyart.com
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CLAIRE LAMBERT Uncharted
Uncharted creates a safe space to access my private thoughts with those of perceived social barriers, and explores the relationship between escapism and artistic process. Image caption: Layered mapping, light and shadow Website: claireroisinlambert.wixsite.com/portfolio
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REBECCA MCCARTHY Grouping Assemblages that seek to reflect my personal experience of interacting with disability within an ableist society. Using unrelated materials to explore interdependence. Objects that connect, support, and interact. Image caption: Nylon, acrylic, plaster Instagram: Instagram re_ecca_
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SCHOOL OF FINE ART DEPARTMENT OF PRINT BA (HONS) FINE ART (PRINT)
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SINEAD BUCKLEY Subtracting Innocence: The Real Disney An investigation into the loss and corruption of innocence. One cannot exist without the other. A lighthearted approach to a serious issue. Image caption: Illustration from Walt Disney’s classic Snow White storybook Instagram: subtracting_innocence
KATIE BYRNE ‘So what are your plans for after college?’ A contemplative study of obsolescence in contemporary society. Image caption: Digital projection onto photographic film Instagram: katieerinbyrne
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ANDREA CALABRO ALEGRIA The silence of growing The change from child to adult is a conversion of energy. Using sculpture, printmaking and video, I physically describe the transformation from childlike creativity, to adult necessity. Image caption: Screen print on copper plate Email: andreacalabroartist@gmail.com
JULIA COLLINS Witness Dogs are applied as a vector of the human condition by using printmaking and projecting specific emotions. Certain experiences are lamented and archived in the landscape of a postapocalyptic world. Image caption: Dog in the Corner Website: juliacol.com
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SOPHIE DALY Maiden Voyage Set in 9th century Ireland when abortion was penitential under Catholicism, Maiden Voyage explores the historical shift in attitudes to abortion in Ireland, while keeping the very human story at its core. Image caption: Still image Email: sophiedaly16@gmail.com
SINEAD DOWNES Woven thoughts and memories The birth of this project surfaced after recollecting a traumatic childhood memory. Art allowed for self-expression and exploration; the result of which is a collection of hand-woven paper pieces. Image caption: Hear my voice Instagram: nadeishere
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EIMHIN FARRELL Hope Hope Castle, Lough Muckno, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan: is its ever-worsening dilapidation a shameful exhibition of our apathy towards local societal history, or a chance for nature to rejuvenate and thrive? Image caption: Hope Behind Bars by the Shore of Lough Muckno (detail) Email: eimhinfarrell@gmail.com
NATHAN FERNÉE Framing Virility A network of anonymous communication in unintelligible space. Reinterpreting the virile masculinity revered in gay culture as a rhythmic motion of passive circularity; framing digital virility as analogue frailty. Image caption: Key frame sheet Email: nathanlukefernee@outlook.ie
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CLAUDIA FREY In The Tree, Part Of The Tree An old, rusted tin box hidden among a forest of paper sheets, holding an image. The viewer ventures in to find themselves part of the image itself. Image caption: Digital print on four layers of rice paper Instagram: toko.loshe
MOYA GIBNEY Girls Just Wanna Have Fun This work explores the limits within society’s construction of gender, highlighting public femininity and one’s personal relationship with femininity. Image caption: Dolls Email: moyagibney1@yahoo.co.uk
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ROSHEEN KAMEL Bardo The work of ElSaid Badawi, my grandfather, examines the journey of Arabic from its Quranic origins to its contemporary state. Bardo is a reflection of his life, from humble beginnings to a worldrenowned sociolinguist. Image caption: Detail of pattern Instagram: rplusk_art
AISLING MCDONNELL Fried Eggs and Hairy Legs A series of screen prints and sculptures exploring everyday objects that excite me. Image caption: Hairy Legs (screen print) Instagram: miss_ash_tray
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JOANNE NORTHEY Do you Dare Stare No organ is more promiscuous than the eye, and no appetite more insatiable than the hunger to look. Metamorphosis explores how gender functions completely autonomously from sex. Image caption: Metamorphosis (detail) Website: jbubble0.wixsite.com/jbubble0
JULIE O’BRIEN Entre-veillance Exploring the topic of surveillance and the illusion of privacy, my work sets out to expose the flaws in our contemporary surveillant society by questioning the malleability of power between the surveyor and the surveyed. Image caption: 53°19’54.3”N 6°15’52.9”W Instagram: artveillance
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ROSIE O’MAHONY Semper Femina ‘Varium et mutabile semper femina’ Virgil. Translation: Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. A series of works about the fragility and changeable facets of woman. Image caption: Soft ground etching with aquatint Instagram: Dozie_rosie
ELLEN PERRY Same Sh!t, Different Day An attempt to make the banal extraordinary. Image caption: Screen print Photographed by: Ellen Perry Instagram: ep_artt
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LAUREN QUIRKE Growing Pains
Growing Pains reflects the complexities of youth and friendships; how friends may grow apart and become strangers. Ephemeral materials are used to capture the dissolution of relationships. Image caption: Girl with Flowers Email: lauren.quirke77@gmail.com
CAROLINE SHAKESPEARE Are you sure? If you lucid dream you are attending to your dream as a dream, not a reality. What’s stopping you from attending to your reality as a dream? My work aims to make you question what you think you know. Image caption: Silk screen print on southbank paper Email: carolinesa12345@hotmail.com
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WALKER SHAW A Week in Time: 2018 My work is a critique of the highly automated society we live in and its detrimental effect. It looks at the question of what is worthy of the archive. Image caption: A detail of Tuesday Instagram: walker_shaw_
SEAN WHELAN Whelan’s Newagents – Nico’s Chipper My work is a study of my grandfather, and the man who bought my family’s newsagent from my grandfather in the 1970s. It is an exploration of character, of memories and experiences. Image caption: Mannequin Head
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SINÉAD BRESLIN Searching Place. Memory. Journey. Through print and performance, my work explores the meditative act of walking and metaphorical pilgrimage as a means to keep hold of something that is slipping away. Image caption: Performance Email: sineadbreslinprints@gmail.com
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SARAH DEMPSEY Shame on her? A project exploring female shame and sexuality in Western society and culture, through the mediums of screen-print and embroidery. Image caption: Artist at work Photographed by: Katie Wise Email: sarahdempseyprintartist@gmail.com
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DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA BA (HONS) FINE ART (MEDIA)
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JONAH BURKE Simulations of Heaven Have you planned your afterlife? Image caption: Aldrik Kempworth Website: templeoftheconnected.wixsite.com/ templeoftheconnected
GEORGIA CORCORAN /user/BrunetteBeautyVlogger This attempt to overanalyse Youtube beauty vloggers makes use of the large resource of repetitive imagery provided by the internet, alongside a sentient thread of thought. Image caption: Brunette_Beauty_Vlogger_in_ Bedroom_10 Website: georgiadabizz.com
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ANNE EBELING Chrysalis
Chrysalis is a film piece that consists of a series of performances exploring the human body and ‘coming of age’ in contemporary society. Image caption: Film still taken from Chrysalis Instagram: anneebelingart
JAMIE GILROY BARRETT State My work investigates the geopolitics of construction and deconstruction. Instagram: jamiegilroybarrett
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ISSEY GOOLD Check the Input Terminal When unplugged, a projector’s beam turns to default pure blue. I began to consider this blue as a gateway/ language for virtual space, this led to investigating my personal relationship with machines. Image caption: Say goodbye to your trash Instagram: isseygoold
EDEN HEALY A Woman’s Place
A Woman’s Place focuses on the invisibility of women’s experiences in our country, and the unrealistic view many have of women’s lives when viewing them from the outside. Image caption: Still from A Woman’s Place Instagram: edenhealyart
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SORCHA HICKEY O’DWYER Speech Against Society A lot of people find it intimidating to speak against society – to have their own opinion. I want people to have the conversation that is being neglected. Image caption: False Messengers, a woman surrounded by 9 anxieties Tumblr: sorchacircle@tumblr.com
ANNA KEANE You have a memory to look back on today I have an interest in spaces and the impressions that we leave behind. I work primarily with film, installations, projections, audio and textiles. Image caption: Installation shot, Interim Exhibition, 2017 Photographed by: Jonathan O’Leary Instagram: anna.keane.art
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NIALL LINTON Diffusion My work investigates the materiality of nature and the creation of hybrid objects by intertwining traditional and contemporary forms. Image caption: Fading Mediums Rendered #6 Instagram: nialllinton
GLENN MALLON Significant Erasure A ‘hierarchical’ 2D/3D animation, installation, projection and performance piece. It is about two drawing tools’ responsibilities and significance to paper. It is also about paper’s emotional impact in return. Image caption: Layered Cel Animation Frames Instagram: muteidea
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JONATHAN O’LEARY 1440 Systems and Networks are everywhere. They are an integral part of our multinational Capitalist society. Their effects may be experienced even if they cannot be necessarily touched. Image caption: Ghost Estate Instagram: Johnnyol5
SHANE O’NEILL Reflection of Memories A video installation which is projected into a water container on the studio floor. This work gives an insight into the way we record and store memories. Image caption: Birthday Email: shaneon89@hotmail.com
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FRANK PRENDERGAST Interference
Interference is an investigation into sublime effects of interference on perception. If information can be treated as a wave, the nodes of interference are where we may experience the results of competing information. Image caption: Interference Framed Website: No10.ie
CIANA SPELMAN My Incandescence The term ‘incandescence’, refers to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a hot body as a result of its temperature. This installation, entitled My Incandescence, explores the relationship that human bodies share with celestial bodies. Image caption: January Wolf Moon Vimeo: Ciana_18
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ANA VALEN Eda /animus/us/a One day I won’t be here. And I won’t feel anything. I will give in to nothingness. Where will I go? Where will I go? Image caption: Video still [featuring actress Sefora Castro] Website: anamana.me
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DEPARTMENT OF PAINTING BA (HONS) FINE ART (PAINTING)
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LAURA BRERETON Flying I paint directly from handmade newspaper maquettes of birds, using drone footage so I can get an understanding of their perspective. This also lets the viewer see from the bird’s viewpoint. Image caption: Three birds Instagram: lauradbrereton
DR VAL BRESNIHAN Our last day on earth This work imagines our last day on earth due to damage done by human action. The ordinariness of materials – plants and plastic – conveys acceptance/ ignorance of the damage we do. Email: vbresnihan@gmail.com
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ARON CAHILL An Ode From birth we are both aided and influenced by people that leave our lives; we will continue to both aid and influence others long after we are gone. Instagram: aron.cahill
GARVAN CORR The Sublime, The Space and The Subconscious This work concerns memory, space and immersion. An exploration of a personal and psychological sublime. The installation is a cryptic fusion of found objects and highly charged personal ephemera. Email: garvancorr@gmail.com
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SĂ?OFRA COVENEY Sightreading This work is made while listening to specific music repeatedly while painting. Each work is a result of a different music piece. Image caption: Hand Covers Bruise Photographed by: Sarah Murphy Instagram: siofraah
SERENA FARRELL Can I have a moment My work is about capturing moments from 70s family photographs and fashion magazines through the medium of paint and drawings on acetate. Although my work draws from the past, it is distinctly located in the present. Image caption: Summer Holiday, oil on canvas Instagram: serenafarrell_art
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GABRIEL GALWAY Calligraffiti I take elements from Japanese and Chinese calligraphy and incorporate them into an expressive graphic style very reminiscent of comic books. I wish to remove the stigmas of ‘lesser’ art forms. Image caption: Bruce Lee Instagram: Kaskando
SUSANA GARCÍA CALDERÓN The environmental impact of petroleum The devastating consequences of environmental pollution have compelled me to produce work that can raise awareness of this critical issue, while also providing me with the medium for expressing my emotions. Image caption: Matted feathers, mixed media Email: susanakuko@hotmail.com
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DĂ“NAL GEHERAN My work explores repetition and the patterns created by it. Image caption: Fragments Instagram: donalgeheran
ANDREJ GETMAN The naked male selfie as an online time capsule Exploration of the naked male selfie captured in fragments of chaos, abstraction and reality. Image caption: Untitled, oil on canvas Website: getmangallery.com
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AIDAN GREENE Geometry of the World A series of paintings created while looking at the aspects of sacred geometry and Metatron’s cube to create geometric forms and patterns. Instagram: greene_aidan
JUSTYNA GUDANIEC Madge Gill (1882 – 1961) in The Context My work combines an interest in the obsessive process of outsider artist, Madge Gill, with my own domestic experiences, to create atmospheric and theatrical installations. Image caption: Mixed media: textiles, soil, stop motion animation, projection, sculpture, installation Email: justynagudaniec@yahoo.co.uk
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LIAM HACKETT My work primarily focuses on two strands of research: consumerism and portraiture. These areas of interest, the resultant work and research, hopefully attempt to explore issues and express some comment about them. Image caption: Watercolour on paper
EMMA HAYES Evocation The focus of Emma’s work is personal attachments and anxieties based around home. The process is important to her. Both the action of making a picture and the action of applying paint informs her work. Image caption: Times That Have Been and Gone Photographed by: Andrej Getman Instagram: _emma_hayes_
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CONOR HEALY Preview Render Region I create digital renderings of drapery, which I then translate into paintings that explore our relationship with the virtual and the physical, arousing wonder in what is real and not real. Image caption: #8c312d Instagram: conorhealee
ERIKA HORVATH Borderline This project is about a personality disorder called: Borderline. My paintings represent a weird outcome in gestures and emotions, that represent mental stages which can change day by day. Image caption: Leave me alone Email: erikahorvath1975@gmail.com
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MICHELENE HUGGARD Invisibility Cloaks These paintings question the dual reality for Syrian refugees: they arrive, wrapped in silver foil, on the shore of their new country, yet are nonetheless hidden in plain sight. Image caption: Beach Email: miehuggard@gmail.com
KEVIN JUDGE I produced this using only my bare wit… ‘toaster orifice / seduce me with your steel lips / burn me if you wish’ - poem by Kevin Judge: Painter, Sculptor (but then again, no), Striker, Lighthouse Keeper. Image caption: I Would Die 4 U Instagram: seventhheavenrip
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SONJA KORHONEN Reconstructing attachment Using a minimalist style, I depict the moments of attachment between a parent and a child. Painting these attachments is a path to understanding their influence in everyday life. Image caption: First painting session Instagram: artsonjakorhonen
TONY LOCKHART Climate Change Reaction to human’s active involvement on the natural environment Image caption: Acrylic and household paint on canvas Email: tonylockhart25@gmail.com
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CARMEN MCNERNEY QUIGLEY Home is Where My Miniature statue of Queen Nefertiti is My installations focus on how we display objects in museums, galleries and homes, and how each context changes their worth. Will objects in our homes become priceless artefacts one day? Image caption: Installation detail Instagram: carquig
LOUISE MULLEN Filtered Farm My work is heavily influenced by the animals in my life and the connection they represent to my past as well as the present, with the use of colour and filters through painting. Image caption: One Three Two Eight Photographed by: Aiden Sharkey Email: mullenlouise9@gmail.com
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CHLOE MURPHY Reconstructed Memories My work consists of my attempt to construct a visual diary of memories that are created through the physical act of travelling and the intimate spaces they lead to. Instagram: chloemurphyart
SARAH MURPHY And That is the Longing The sacred figure is, for me, a lonely one; created to be held apart. Shrines become less about offerings and more about the distraction of organisation. Image caption: Only My Books Anoint Me Instagram: slaveforcave
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ROISÍN O’DONNELL The Road Taken I paint with expression. Therefore, each mark made in my paintings, whether expressive or delicate, holds significance to me. I’m interested in making paintings that create personal and collective memories and associations. Photographed by: Jonathan O’Leary Instagram: roshod_art
JULIETTE QUÉDEC Spilled Milk Quédec’s work is about finding humor in the everyday trials of mental illness. Inspiration is derived from her surroundings, they just so happen to be painfully mundane. Image caption: Just Hangin’ Website: paintingquedec.com
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EMMA ROONEY My work is inspired by early colour photography. Image caption: Oil on aluminum
AIDAN SHARKEY Recovery My work aims to deconstruct the benefits art has had on my mental health and symbolising my journey to recovery, by documenting my daily commute through the medium of paint. Image caption: Time Check Instagram: aidan8500
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KAREN WATTERS The Vermillion Border I am drawn to myth and the promise of a ‘Republic of Opportunity’, the contradictory, unchanging limbo that working class citizens are born and bred into, and the dichotomy of class. Image caption: Posca marker and oil on canvas Instagram: _hishka/
LENA WILLRYD Björk Using the silver birch as a symbol of my roots/attachment to my native country, Sweden, I explore its ethereal qualities through abstraction and mark-making. Image caption: Roots, oil on canvas Instagram: lenawillrydart
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MARIA Z. PARODI Glances of Tomorrow This project displays the possibilities of merging new post-human identities, spotting the desires of science and technology in looking for the perfection factor through the genetic. The work contrasts the artificial with the use of organically mixed media. Image caption: Glances of Tomorrow, Mixed media Email: mgmfly05@outlook.com
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BA (Joint Hons) Fine Art (Painting) & Education
Joint Honours Fine Art (Painting) & Education
DEIRDRE BRACKEN Interruption
Interruption reflects on the displaced and the subsequent emergence of a new landscape. Emotional and physical challenges underpin the work and prompt us to question our relationship with the unfamiliar. Image caption: Path, oil on canvas Instagram: deirdrebrackenart
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SĂ?LE HUGHES Transcription Attempting to define what makes a family through distorting childhood photographs and experimenting with collage and omission as an approach to painting. Image caption: Delectation Email: silehughes95@gmail.com
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RACHEL MCCABE The Cloud of Living Light
Aura- In Red depicts the sharp, blinding pain of a migraine. The fragmented shapes and stark whites are representative of the debilitating aura which obscures the sufferers visual field during an episode. Image caption: Aura- In Red Email: rachelnoelleno1@gmail.com
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JADE WALSH The Muses My practice investigates and explores the forms of idols, icons from previous ancient civilizations and interrogates the concept of the body and how it has been represented and revered throughout history. Image caption: Amazonia Dance (Detail) Photographed by: Aron Cahill Instagram: jadwalsh
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KATIE WISE Springtime of Life A series of paintings that depict my interpretation of childhood memories. The works visually encapsulate the feeling of euphoria when experiencing something for the very first time. Image caption: Beginning, oil on canvas Email: info.wisekatie@gmail.com
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DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE & EXPANDED PRACTICE BA (HONS) FINE ART (SCULPTURE)
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TOM CULLEN Beta Male My art practice looks at masculinity: pressure is placed on men to behave and be a certain way and that can feel like an obligation to conform to expectations and norms of being a man. Image caption: Video still Email: thomasdh94@gmail.com
HELENA DUFFY Open Circuit Under observation, human behaviour changes. My work explores the issues of power imbalance and mass surveillance in the workplace. There are those who watch, and those who are being watched. Image Title: Video still Email: helenaduffy@hotmail.com
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RACHAEL FOLEY If it weren’t for Delia The work is about the concept of legacy. Taking form in a documentary style installation, it focuses on real lives, aspirations and the dynamics of family through an agricultural lifestyle. Image caption: Untitled (2018), detail of projected print Website: rfoley96.wixsite.com/mysite
SARAH GALLAGHER Groan/Grown
Groan/Grown explores family and a familiarity that is held in sounds, décor and ornaments. These elements are particular to my grandparents’ 1930s parlour house in Drimnagh. Image caption: Detail of plaster cast ornaments Email: sarahgallagherartist@gmail.com
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KEVIN GAYNOR Semi-detached The tradition of Irish division is only too apparent in its living rooms. Converting Irish Sea water into fog, Kevin Gaynor injects this geographic border into the living rooms of Ireland, reflecting the uncertainty of this invisible/physical border, post Brexit. Image caption: Irish Sea water converted into fog on carpet Website: kevingaynorartist.com
BLACK DIAMOND HYUNKYOUNGCHOI [The Creation of Heaven and Earth, and since then I create 3D characters and art works inspired by Bible stories. They are created mainly from comics and fabrics. Image caption: Friends at the Tower of Babel Website: padlet.com/Blackdia/1h891cryzdky
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KIM MCGOVERN Clutter, Chaos, Cobble. Intrusive thoughts, body surveillance and comparing oneself to others. This series looks into themes of body image and mental health. Instagram: kimmcgovern_art
GARY REILLY Duanaire
Duanaire is the Irish word for song-book or anthology (loosely, a ‘treasury’). This artwork uses the word to convey the sense of a rich, varied corpus handed down and explored anew. Image caption: Data Performance Email: ReillyGary15@gmail.com
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DEIRDRE WATTERS Justice for the Restless Spirit Local folklore tells the tale of Darkey Kelly, condemned to haunt the 40 steps to Hell for Eternity. Life today can be stressful and confining, resulting in a constant desire for Freedom. Image caption: Work in progress Email: deirdrewatters@hotmail.com
ANDREW WIELENS Park and Art My socially-engaged art practice employs art as a vehicle for social change. Local Park and Art is a collaboration with community groups and local businesses in the creation of a new public park for Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8. Image caption: Installation view, Local Park and Art exhibition, NCAD Gallery, 2018 Website: parkandartatbridgefootstreet.com
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Joint Honours Fine Art (Sculpture & Expanded Practice) & Education
HANNAH DOHERTY Entity By placing the viewer in the apparent centre of the experience, my work investigates the supposed authority we believe to possess in our daily lives. Image caption: Video still Email: h.doherty.2017@gmail.com
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HEIDI DWYER Occipito temprol A non functioning occipito temprol causes an overload of possibilities and combinations. Letters and numbers collide; they are energetic spinning and flipping in material form. Image caption: Detail of sculpture Photographed by: Dan Coxon Email: heidi.e.a.d@hotmail.com
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ALICE ELIZABETH O’HARE Taut Attempting to construe the authoritarian figures within society and their impact. How experiences can alter our perception and how listeners can adopt these views. Illustrating the manipulation of the vulnerable, stretching materials to almost breaking point. Image caption: Stretched wool over concrete Photographed by: Aron Cahill Email: aliceelizabethsculptor@gmail.com
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DEBORAH STRUMBLE Inhale, Exhale My work looks at the archival conservation of repetitive movement, recollections, objects, documentation and healing practices. These works explore the use of light and air as a supplementary treatment for Tuberculosis in the 1940s. Image caption: Children on ‘Fresh air treatment’ in Peamount TB Sanatorium (Photographer unknown) Website: deborahstrumble.ie
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LEIGH WALSH Separating Body and Sole My practice revolves around the female body and the interrelation between The Church, The Female and Control. In it, I explore religious symbols and semiotics and the juxtaposition of sacrifice and suffering. Image caption: Detail of installation Email: leighw9@hotmail.com
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School of FineArt Art MFA in Digital
SCHOOL OF FINE ART MFA IN DIGITAL ART This year sees the first cohort of students from NCAD’s MFA in Digital Art exhibiting their graduate work. Over the past eighteen years the Media Department’s masters programmes have changed (in name and content), responding to the field’s evolving discourses. Each of this year’s students is attuned to different concerns and issues in our digital world. Camilla Fanning’s installation is a disconcerting whisper, while Sally Ryan Graver’s work is on the theme of climate change – which should be screaming loudly in our ears. The way our minds listen and absorb information underpins Natalie Anderson’s work. The graduate show is an opportunity for the students to transmit their practice out to the world. Thank you for being receptive to their work. Our hope for our graduates is that their achievements continue on from the MFA in Digital Art to be shared far and wide. Leah Hilliard MFA in Digital Art Coordinator
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NATALIE ANDERSON Neuronet An interactive installation that utilises energy in exploring our perceptions and place in the physical world. Email: nrdanderson@hotmail.com
CAMILLA FANNING Sunlight on Water Sound as material which ebbs and flows. Our bodies moving through it to complete the experience. The unadulterated repressed brought up from silence. Image caption: Sunlight on Water Email: cjfanning@cjfanning.com
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SALLY RYAN GRAVER Wasted in the Arctic How do our actions contribute to climate change and plastic pollution? These are the two questions the viewer is asked to reflect on in Wasted in the Arctic. Image caption: Ice Sculpture – Transformation of the everyday plastic Website: sallyryangraver.com
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MFA IN FINE ART ‘On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time’ The studio spaces at the Annex, 101-103 James’ Street, in the shadow of the Guinness brewing empire, are the incubation space for the artists on the MFA Fine Art and the venue for their graduate show. Over an intensive two year course, they have developed their work by presenting it in different exhibition situations to a core group of peers, tutors and public audiences. Their final projects pursue transdisciplinary questions about identity, technology, waste, the body, time travel, the phenomenon of light and the politics of space, supported by the specialist practices in painting, moving image, performance, sculpture and expanded practice and print, evident in this year’s exhibition. Their ambition asserts the relevance of contemporary art as a space for critique and change. The MFA is delivered by a team of dedicated staff and we would like to thank the numerous friends of the programme, the visiting artists, curators and arts professionals who have contributed this year, especially Hugh Mulholland, Lívia Páldi and David Beattie. Thanks also to Mark Clare, the Studio Award resident artist and Hazel Crowley who provides administrative support and beyond to the MFA. Sarah Durcan MFA in Fine Art Coordinator
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SUSAN BUTTNER Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power My work engages with the relationship of art to architecture, with spaces of interaction, and with ‘everyday power’. Sculpture as object and subject, the body in movement, awkward, difficult, present and decided. Image caption: Installation fragment, Inchicore College of Further Education, Dublin, 2018 Photographed by: Michelle Hall Website: susanbuttner.com
REMCO DE FOUW Remco de Fouw MFA Exhibition 2018 Instruments and apparatus are useful metaphors, which can both help and hinder our relationship to land, sky and communication over distance and time. The work aims to explore the slippage between imaging and imagining. Image caption: Detail of the starting point Random Access Memory I Email: remco@remcodefouw.net
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JENNIFER DE GRAAFF Dag Boek My work deals with the documentation of events, and questions how they are represented. By using common assumptions about race from a personal perspective, it reveals an inherent awkwardness. Image caption: Still frame projection Website: jenniferdegraaff.wixsite.com/online
ELAINE GRAINGER Barely Hardly There My work invites a bodily response to a space in which I am exploring simultaneously the moment of being and not being, of becoming and collapsing, through materiality, form and performance. Image caption: Formation15.08.35 Website: elainegraingerart.com
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STÉPHANE BÉNA HANLY Act Natural My attention span is the subject of my work because my work is subject to my attention span. Image caption: Representative scale model of the buildings of Prostheta Website: stephanehanly.wixsite.com/work
MICHELE HETHERINGTON The moon understands what it means to be human It is the desperate pursuit of the unknowable and the incomprehensible, which is the obsession and force inspiring the work. Embodying materials bound in time, it manifests itself in experimental moving image, video and 35mm film photography. Image caption: A desert of grey infinities Instagram: michelehetherington_
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PARAIC MCQUAID Head Space I make installations using manufactured materials normally used to build offices. These materials are barely transformed from their intended role into newly configured structures that reveal fault lines of the social system. Image caption: Wall Structure 2018 Website: paraicmcquaid.com
MUIREANN NÍ DHOMHNAILL Then as Now Weaving layered and ghostly stories, scintillating flames expose fleeting portraits of nature’s bounty mined deep in the earth, echoing the elusive identity of global accountability buried deep in digital data. Image caption: mining the buck, film still Photographed by: Eamonn O’Boyle Email: todaystasktoday@gmail.com
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REBECCA REILLY A-tonement in life and death We repress our discarded items into the shadows. Can we instead familiarise ourselves with the landfill of our universal psyche? Website: rebeccareillydance.wordpress.com/
RED REVELL Spin, Spin, Cosmosqueen We know each other better now. We are the ‘sisterbrain’. We are an out-take, a story in motion caught in a moment. We are baking a three headed bread.
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HARRY WALSH FOREMAN Mortal Engines
Mortal Engines utilises the image making contexts of contemporary comic book art, to create an immersive narrative of the people and places I have encountered throughout the MFA programme. Image caption: ‘Keith, you’re manky as that mucky snow that won’t shift!’ Website: harrywalshforeman.com
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SCHOOL OF VISUAL CULTURE
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Three years ago, this year’s graduating Visual Culture BA students made a decision to study in the setting of an art and design school. At NCAD, we not only talk about ‘study’ but also ‘practice’. In the School of Visual Culture, this means not only tracking the achievements of celebrated writers, artists and designers in the library or the lecture theatre: it also means exploring practically how one’s own ideas can find their way into the world. And in the last year, students on our BA programme in Visual Culture, and our postgraduate students on our MA/MFA Design History & Material Culture and Art in the Contemporary World programmes, and our doctoral candidates have curated exhibitions, hosted performances, spoken at conferences and on radio, undertaken residencies in national institutions, published books and won prizes for their writing. In their short statements in this year’s catalogue, graduating students on the Visual Culture BA make reference to collaborative projects that they have undertaken with artists, designers and community groups, as well as to exhibitions that they have conceived and sometimes curated. Others describe their deep and critical engagement with film, with sound, with fashion and with new forms of new media. These are the first steps in ‘practices’ which may well become full ‘careers’ in the arts. We look forward to watching their progress. Professor David Crowley Head of the School of Visual Culture
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KAYLAH BENTON BYRNE Clinical Creativity In my research, I examined art and patient-led art projects in clinical spaces. Recently, Saint James’ Hospital sought proposals for a site-specific interactive artwork. How will the transformation of a neglected space enhance patient, visitor and staff experience? Image caption: Main Concourse of St. James’ Hospital and the location for a new commemorative artwork Email: kaybenbyrne@gmail.com
ALANAH BENTON NÍ BHROIN The Men’s Shed Someone graffitied ‘Derelict for 5 Years’ on the run-down clubhouse on the Oliver Bond estate. The following week, Dublin City Council removed the truth. For my Collaborative Project, I have been working with the Men’s Shed to re-establish a local community space. Email: alanahbentonb@gmail.com
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SIOBHAN CASEY NI DHUIBHINN (Un)Dressing the Leg: The Enduring Erotic Appeal of Stockings from both a Visual and a Tactile Viewpoint Clothing stimulates sexual desire through its kinaesthetic-stimulatory properties (for the wearer) and its visual allure (for the onlooker). This research explores these effects by examining the stocking-adorned leg and its eroticisation in popular culture. Image caption: Stocking packaging, 1950s Email: siobhannidhuibhinn@yahoo.com
CHLOE CONNOLLY Temples of the Sky
Temples of the Sky is a curatorial proposal focused on the signs of the zodiac and their inadvertent representations in the visual arts throughout history to modern times. Image caption: Promotional poster for a proposed exhibition Email: chloe_connolly@live.ie
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MELISSA FENNELL Can Lucy Lippard’s theory of the dematerialized art object be applied to performance art & result in a contemporary emerging theory? An Yvonne Rainer Case Study. Lucy Lippard’s book, The Dematerialisation of the Art Object (1973), presented itself as a theory of object-based conceptual art. This study tests this theory against Yvonne Rainer’s dance work. Image caption: The Concept of Dust, Yvonne Rainer, MACBA, 2017 (CC 2.0 Licence / Flickr) Email: melissafennell182@gmail.com
CLARA HANCOCK Race and pluralism in the representation of post-Brexit national identity My research looks at the impact of Brexit on representations of national identity. I focused on the photography project Portrait of Britain to interrogate how ideas of ‘Britishness’ are understood today. Image caption: Portrait of Britain by Christopher Bethell Email: clara@hancocks.org.uk
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ANNA HIGGINS Stranger Things on The Brain: The Psychology of Nostalgia and why Stranger Things is a success This research explores the connections between nostalgia, cognition and the media by examining how the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016) captured a wide and varied television audience. Image caption: Project title in ‘Stranger Things’ font Email: annahiggins2397@gmail.com
HEIDEE MARTIN Charles Saatchi: Behind the Green Curtain Simple disdain solves nothing. Only by accepting and forensically questioning the ‘supercollector’ can we begin to regulate the power that a figure like Charles Saatchi wields over the art world. Image caption: Cartoon by Graeme Keyes Email: heidee.martin@gmail.com
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AISLING MCGUINNESS The Many Faces of Mary
The Many Faces of Mary is a thematic exhibition proposal focusing on the artistic exploration of possibly the most recognisable woman in the history of Western art: the Virgin Mary. Image caption: The Black Madonna of Częstochowa Email: aislingmcguinness96@gmail.com
MAEVE O’TOOLE WHITE Mapping Visual Culture, Art and Globalisation My research focuses on historical textiles that double as symbols of diaspora along with acting as negotiators of the issues of poverty, dislocation and forced displacement. Image caption: Art in Ruins, My Homeland is Not a Suitcase (1992) Email: maeveotw@gmail.com
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PAULA RAMOS PACHECO ‘L’écriture Féminine’ and the semantics of space: how exhibition design can be a feminist practice This research project combines the concepts of feminist writing, exhibition design theory and spatial storytelling as ways of incorporating feminist semantics in space. Email: paularamospacheco@gmail.com
EIMEAR REGAN Interstices of Light In May 2018, I curated Interstices of Light at The Complex, a show exploring themes of mental health through a series of photographs inspired by poetry. Image caption: Untitled (‘veins, cling to the one who is king’) Photographed by: Erica Coburn Email: eimearregan95@hotmail.com
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JOSSELIN de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The politics of art: The 1959 American National Exhibition seen through Pollock’s ‘Cathedral’ and Levine’s ‘Welcome home’ Investigating the art of the Cold War, I have learned how manipulation can become a very powerful weapon to change minds. Hopefully I will never have to use this, but it’s good to know it works! Email: lesalluetsleroi7@gmail.com
EVE TYRRELL Reigning Supreme: Characteristics, Processes and Relations of the Leading Brand of Streetwear This project explores Supreme’s booming underground brand community. Examining youth consumer culture and the desire to be ‘cool’, it examines the importance of community to successful brands. Image caption: Adam B, New York, 2015 (CC 2.0 / Flickr) Email: eve.tyrrell@gmail.com
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FIRST YEAR STUDIES
NCAD is a small College with a large and diverse community of art and design practitioners. In this environment, First Year Studies provides a unique inter-disciplinary programme for all our art and design students. Led in the studio by both art and design practitioners, our students are encouraged to explore new ground, expand their knowledge of materials, processes and approaches, so that they can test and find their preferences. Ultimately, they will find the right pathway for their ambitions through the diverse range of possibilities open to them among the fourteen different specialisms across art and design. In this common experience, the students develop an understanding and appreciation of the different specialisms, allowing them to form the connections for future interdisciplinary collaborations so vital to our increasingly diverse cultural and creative industries. From NCAD’s base in the Liberties, further extended connections are made with the city and all it has to offer: the museums, the galleries and more, supporting the students’ research and practice. First Year Studies encompasses studio practice, workshops, tutorials, visiting lectures, seminars, gallery visits and field trips. The studio programme is complemented by studies in Professional Practice and Critical Cultures. Mary Avril Gillan Head of First Year Art & Design Studies
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Sculpture Specialism Module
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Continuing Education in Art & Design
CEAD
Continuing Education in Art & Design (CEAD) at NCAD offers an extensive range of part-time flexible art and design summer and autumn courses. With a student body of over 600 and a programme of more than 50 courses throughout the year, CEAD caters for a range of levels from beginners to those seeking a route to professional status. Continuing Education offers part-time accredited Certificate and Diploma options for mature students. One year Certificate courses include: Drawing and Visual Investigation (D&VI), Photography and Digital Imaging (P&DI) and Visual Art Practice (VAP). Students who successfully complete a Certificate can apply to the part-time Diploma in Art. Accredited part-time programmes within CEAD are University programmes at Level 7 NFQ. Non-credit courses and workshops are offered to students who want to return to third level art and design education but need to develop their skills and knowledge, before committing to accredited options. CEAD provides continuing professional development options to students who want to up-skill and acquire further professional experience. Student’s present their course work at the annual CEAD exhibition, which takes place on campus in early July. The 2018 CEAD Show takes place from 28 June to 5 July.
Nuala Hunt Head of Continuing Education in Art & Design
Linda Schuetz, Attitude, 2018
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NCAD Graduate Exhibition 2018
Stephen Rogers, The Last Rings, 2018
Anthony Cullen, Gorge 1, 2018
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First published in 2018 by the National College of Art & Design Coláiste Náisiúnta Ealaíne is Deartha NCAD is a Recognised College of University College Dublin Copyright June 2018 All rights reserved NCAD, the artists, authors and publishers No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. Published on the occasion of the NCAD 2018 Graduate Exhibition Catalogue compiled by: Dr Emma Mahony Exhibition organised by: Madeleine Moore Typeface: Spenser by Bobby Tannam Designed by: Red&Grey Printed by: Impress Members of An Bord: Dr Richard Thorn, Chairman Designate Professor Sarah Glennie, Director Fred Goltz Darragh Hogan Dr Declan Long, Academic Staff Representative Jane McDaid Gráinne Murphy, Day Student Representative Christine O’Donovan Sonia O’Dwyer, Evening Student Representative Sinéad Ryan Rachel Tuffy, Academic Staff Representative Mark Carroll, Senior Attendant, Non-Academic Staff Observer
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