The NCAD end of year show started last Friday, June 7th and closes at Saturday June 15th at 5pm.

Here’s a few photos from the show. They don’t even begin to scratch the surface. There is so much to see. You can find more information at ncad.works where you can find a snippet of every artists work in the show, across all the shows, both undergrad and post-grad and it can be a good way to get a taste of the show if you can’t get to Dublin. And if you are in Dublin, there’s a list of events happening around the show as well.

Top row: 1. A selection of photos from Textile & Surface Design. The real pieces are in the room, 2. This was in the School of Fine Art, and I have to go back and find out who made it. 3. Folakemi Ibidokun, Applied Materials
Middle row: Emily Ní Aogáin (Hogg), Sculpture & Expanded Practice
Bottom row: 1. Alex Fortune, 2. Jay Byrne, 3. Tamara Hyland (all Illustration students)

If any of this makes you want to go to art college, NCAD has loads of evening classes and short term courses in all sorts of subjects. Evening classes follow the academic year so the next intake will be for September. You can do courses for credit or just for the joy of making things. They fill up fast, so if you are interested the best thing to do is sign-up to the mailing list to find out when bookings open.

(I know that part of series 2 of The Dry was filmed on campus, but I haven’t been it yet so I can’t comment on the accuracy of it’s portrayal of evening art classes!)

The short term professional courses have also ended for the summer break, except for Professional Cert in Art and Ecology which is a 5 credit course starting on June 21 and taking place in The Field. The other courses are listed here. They are all part of the Creative Futures Academy and most are at least partly funded by the government.