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The National College of Art and Design is Ireland's foremost college of Art & Design offering the largest range of art and design degrees in the State at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

04/06/2026

NCAD DEGREE SHOW 5–13 JUNE 2026 - SNEAK PEEK

Department of Design for Body and Environment
Textile & Surface Design
Top Floor, Design for Industry Building

🎥 Seán Jackson

04/06/2026

NCAD DEGREE SHOW 5–13 JUNE 2026 - SNEAK PEEK

Department of Design for Body and Environment
Fashion
Top Floor, Design for Industry Building

🎥 Seán Jackson

04/06/2026

NCAD DEGREE SHOW 5–13 JUNE 2026 - SNEAK PEEK

Department of Design for Body and Environment
BA Jewellery & Objects
Top Floor, Design for Industry Building

🎥 Seán Jackson.

04/06/2026

𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 opens tomorrow! 🎉

The countdown is on. Join us this Friday as NCAD transforms into a vibrant, campus-wide exhibition of new ideas, experimentation, and creative energy from our 2026 graduates.

From bold visual statements to thoughtful, socially engaged projects, this year’s graduate showcase captures what it means to create, challenge, and care, with work that questions, connects, and responds to the world in real time.

📅 Opening Day schedule:

Public Exhibition: 10 am - 6 pm.
Opening Celebration Night: 6 pm - 9 pm.

🎶 Don't miss our 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 music lineup featuring NCAD students from the NCAD Music Society (.music), who have done so much to keep live music thriving on campus in recent years:

6 pm - 7 pm
7 pm - 7:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8 pm
8 pm - 9 pm .ind

Great food and drinks available

Also on Saturday, 6 June, 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, the 𝗠𝗙𝗔 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 opens at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght, at 3 pm. Dublin 24, D24 KV8N. All are welcome!

Students from NCAD's Centre for Continuing Education in Art & Design (𝗖𝗘𝗔𝗗) are also presenting their work in The Annex as part of this year's graduate showcase.

📲 Visit 2026.ncad.works. Students have also organised a full 12-day programme of live events and performances. These events expand on their themes in talks, live activations, and collaborations. Find all public events in 2026.ncad.works/events.

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Rua Red

02/06/2026

Last Thursday, we were delighted to join Diageo Ireland at Roe & Co Distillery to celebrate this year's scholarship recipients. A group of our talented students were recognised for both their academic work and their contribution to the Dublin 8 community.

The NCAD Diageo scholarship winners are:

Kelly Hood
MA Art and Social Action - (community engagement in local area)

August Parish
Textile Art and Artefact - (NCAD studentship)

Ali Ward
Sculpture and Expanded practice - (socially engaged practice specifically in D8)

Ludwig Schalbe
MA Art and Social Action - (socially engaged practice with local and international components)

Megan Atkinson
MA Art and Social Action - (community development worker in D8 and D12)

Congratulations to all!

We're grateful to Diageo Ireland for their continued commitment to the community, and proud that NCAD students are part of that story.

📷 Pictured here are NCAD student Ali Ward, who attended the event in person; Jill McCann (Corporate Relations Community Project Manager, IOI, Diageo); NCAD Director Professor Sarah Glennie; and Camille Rocca, Derek McGarry and Declan Markey, all from NCAD.

Diageo

02/06/2026

Join us for as we celebrate a graduating class that reflects NCAD’s commitment to create, challenge, and care. This year’s exhibition features standout work from across disciplines, including innovative projects that push boundaries, thought-provoking installations, and explorations in art and design that address sustainability and community connection.

Rooted in our values of being bold & curious, our students are not only experimenting with new forms of creative practice but also engaging deeply with the social, cultural, and environmental issues of our time. 𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is a testament to their drive to make meaningful change for people, communities, and society.

📅 Exhibition runs from Friday 5th to Saturday 13th June.

Opening Hours:

🔹 Friday 5th June: 10 am - 6 pm
🔹 Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th June: 10 am - 5 pm
🔹 Monday 8th - Friday 12th June: 10 am - 8 pm
🔹 Saturday 13th June: 10 am - 5 pm

𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, a group exhibition by the final graduating cohort of the 𝗠𝗙𝗔 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 programme at NCAD, opens this Saturday, 6th June at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght.

📅 MFA Exhibition dates:
6 June - Opening: 3 - 5:30 pm
8-20 June: 10 am - 6 pm (Closed Sundays)

Joining the showcase in The Annex, students from NCAD's Centre for Continuing Education in Art & Design (𝗖𝗘𝗔𝗗) will also have their work on display.

Don't miss our extensive free public events, talks, and workshops throughout the exhibition.

📲The online exhibition launches Friday, 5th June, at 2026.ncad.works.

02/06/2026

NCAD WORKS is our annual celebration of graduating talent across art and design, and a chance to be introduced to our future creative leaders at the start of their journeys from College into the professional world.

NCАD Director, Professor Sarah Glennie, on this year's showcase:

💬 “We are delighted to welcome a wide audience to our Dublin 8 campus for 𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, our showcase of our graduating students across our diverse range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Ranging from fashion to sculpture, interaction design to painting, our graduates utilise their deep specialist material and digital knowledge to create bodies of work that respond to our current moment and imagine a different future. In challenging times their collective ambition to create, challenge and care reminds us of the power of the human imagination to inspire disruptive hope.”

📲 Read more on our website: https://www.ncad.ie/news/view/ncad-works-2026

Don't miss ! Opens this Friday, 5th June 2026. Free admission. All are welcome.

01/06/2026

Do you love the study of art and design?

At NCAD, our BA Visual Culture Programme focuses on the images and objects that shaped our world from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The programme views popular culture like fashion, advertising, media and cinema as being just as meaningful and significant as the works of celebrated artists, designers and architects.

Learn more about our full-time and part-time offerings today: https://www.ncad.ie/undergraduate/school-of-visual-culture/

31/05/2026

𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, a group exhibition by the final graduating cohort of the 𝗠𝗙𝗔 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 programme at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), opens next week at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght.

The show brings together 14 artists presenting work across stained glass, print, sculpture, painting, and mixed media; engaging themes of ecology, gender and sexuality, embodiment, consciousness, aesthetics, relationality, and neurodiversity.

Join us for the opening on Saturday, 6th June, 3 pm - 5:30 pm. All are welcome.

📅 Exhibition dates:
6 June - Opening: 3 pm - 5:30 pm
8-20 June: 10 am - 6 pm (Closed Sundays)

30/05/2026

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲.

𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 gives you the opportunity to see the final projects of our graduating students from a variety of disciplines.

Explore projects from the Schools of Design, Education, Fine Art, and Visual Culture, and connect with the ideas inspiring the next generation of creatives.

𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, the NCAD MFA Fine Art exhibition, will also take place at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght, opening 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, extending NCAD WORKS beyond the NCAD campuses.

Work by students from NCAD's Centre for Continuing Education in Art & Design (𝗖𝗘𝗔𝗗) will be on show in The Annex.

Check out the full schedule of public events at 2026.ncad.works/events and start planning your visit. The online platform will be available starting Friday, 5 June.

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