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Exhibition: NCAD ‘Works’ – includes Annika Berglund’s Jewellery and Object Design – Plus other Students’ Work

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Graphic design featuring a blue and white checkerboard pattern in a stylised frame, overlaid on a grey background with repeated text 'NCAD Works 2026'.
Screenshot of the animated NCAD Works 2026 Poster via Instagram

Over the past year, Feltmakers Ireland guild member Annika Berglund has been attending classes in Jewellery and Object Design at NCAD. She will be showing work alongside her classmates at the NCAD Graduate Show. Editor’s Note: Their work will be displayed at the Annex on James Street, near the Guinness Gate.

The textiles and fashion graduates will also be exhibiting their work on the main campus.

Plus, there will be a series of events, talks, and performances throughout the 12-day exhibition run. For more information on these, visit here – https://2026.ncad.works/events

‘Works’ opens on Friday, the 5th of June, with a reception from 17:00 and a second opening at 18:00.

You are all welcome if you can make it.

When: Friday, the 5th of June, through Saturday, the 13th of June.

Where: In locations throughout the NCAD Main Campus, Grace Gifford Building, and The Annex on James Street. NCAD, 100 Thomas St, Usher’s Quay, Dublin 8, D08 K521. There is also the MFA exhibition at RUA Red.

More information at the NCAD website – https://www.ncad.ie/news/view/NCAD-Works-2026-Opening-Hours

Instagram: @ncad_dublin @annikaberglund.art @ncadfashion @ncad_appliedmaterials_textiles @ncadtextilessurfacedesign


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Exhibition: NCAD Gallery includes Weaving with Irish Wool and a Tour on Friday, the 17th

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A wooden weaving loom with yellow and white yarn draped over it, set against a bright yellow background.
Promotional image for the National College of Art and Design Gallery, featuring two figures in dramatic lighting. The text announces the NCAD Research Exhibition and Programme for 2026, with details about the opening event and participating researchers.

National College of Art and Design’s Staff Research Exhibition, curated by Anne Kelly, includes weaving with naturally dyed Irish wool.

This showcase positions weaving as a form of research through a process-driven, materially led collaboration between weavers, Kathy Mooney, Rachel Tuffy, and Áine Byrne. The work approaches weaving as a site for tacit investigation and “thinking through making,” where knowledge emerges through material engagement and the embodied actions of the loom.

Situated within the historic context of the Liberties, an area with a rich legacy of industrial textile production and domestic weaving studios, the action-based weaving process reflects on both the material and cultural histories of weaving practice.

Kathy Mooney has prepared a Galway wool warp, partially naturally dyed using weld foraged in the NCAD field and the local River Dodder. The warp will be tied on and gradually woven throughout the exhibition by Áine Byrne and Rachel Tuffy.

Weaving Tour

The completed textile will be unveiled on Friday, the 17 th of April. This event will be accompanied by a “research weaving” tour of weaving-related sites on campus and within the Liberties area, concluding with a demonstration of the digital TC2 Loom in the NCAD weaving department.

The show runs from 20 March to 17 April 2026, Mon-Fri, 11 AM-6 PM.

For more information, visit the NCAD gallery’s website – https://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/NCADResearchExhibitionProgramme2026

Instagram link: @ncad_dublin @ainekbyrne @tuffyrachel

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Exhibition: The 7 Senses – Laoise Carey Master’s Project

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On Tuesday, the 24th of June, Laoise Carey will hold a one-day fashion and textiles pop-up exhibition and research project as part of her Masters in Circular by Design.

Drop into the gallery at National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Dublin between 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM to experience textiles with your 7 senses:

  • touch
  • taste
  • smell
  • hearing
  • sight
  • vestibular
  • proprioception

Interact with the exhibits and share your thoughts, responses, and inspirations to help determine whether immersive experiences of fashion and textiles promote a deeper sense of empathy between us, our textiles, and the people and places that make them.

Her Instagram: @laoisecarey

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Open Call: Funded Practice-Based PhD from NCAD

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The National College of Art & Design (NCAD), in partnership with CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications – is seeking candidates for funded interdisciplinary practice-based doctoral study beginning in September 2023.

The proposed project – located at both NCAD’s Thomas Street campus and at CONNECT Centre in Trinity College Dublin – will examine the varying forms and systems of knowledge underpinning technology research, development and application.

The structured PhD is a four-year, full-time programme designed for emerging and professional artists, whose work moves across multiple arts disciplines. Funding is per annum.

Deadline: 21/7/2023 at 17:00 (Irish time 24hr format)

For more information, visit their website – https://www.ncad.ie/news/view/fully-funded-practice-based-phd-at-ncad-connect

Exhibition: NCAD Graduate Showcase

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The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) has an exhibition of graduate work. The show runs through this Saturday, the 16th of June. See the image below for gallery hours for the Sculpture graduate show.

Amongst the Sculpture and Expanded Practice graduates is a Feltmakers Ireland member – Mary Hoy. Huge Congratulations to Mary on accomplishing this!!

‘Turn the Compost’ a daily performance at 1 PM –
except Wednesday 14th
Another photo of Mary Hoy

You can see Mary perform ‘Turn the Compost’ daily at 1 PM (except on Wednesday the 14th).

To learn of other talks and performances, see here – https://ncad.works/events

For more details, visit NCAD’s website – https://ncad.works/