This year’s IMMA International Summer School focuses on the theme of containment and takes place online between 21 June and 9 July 2021. In this article Lisa Moran and Nathan O'Donnell outline this multi-ann...

As part of  IMMA's 30th Birthday celebrations Helen O'Donoghue, IMMA's Head of Engagement & Learning, shares with us the story of Studio 10, IMMA's longest running Engagement & Learning Programme which start...

This piece, The Last Ferry, was conceived for The Maternal Gaze series and hinges on the ways O’Halloran’s mother’s ethics and love of nature shaped her practice. The personal essay and accompanying images f...

In this second Green Journal entry, Sandra Murphy from our Visitor and Engagement team , will keep you updated on some of the seasonal changes on the grounds at IMMA. Topics include some tips on how to creat...

Sarah Allen, curator at Tate Modern interviews Jan McCullough, IMMA Residency artist, about the role of photography in her work, what informs her methodology with the artform, how her practice has evolved wi...

IMMA's Head of Collections, Christina Kennedy, introduces us to The Artist's Mother, a project created in responses to the Freud Project. Inspired by Lucian Freud’s paintings of his mother, Lucie, the projec...

In association with the Visual Voices Project 2021 presented at IMMA, we invited Julie Daniel, the coordinator of the DCU University of Sanctuary Mellie programme with Veronica Crosbie, to share her insights...

In this first Green Journal entry, Sandra Murphy from our Visitor Engagement Team, will keep you updated on some of the seasonal changes and recent arrivals on the grounds of IMMA.

Patricia Brennan, Visitor Engagement Team at IMMA and PG student at TCD, continues to engage with the art of renowned realist painter Dame Paula Rego, in an introduction to Rego’s solo exhibition Obedience a...

Patricia Brennan, Visitor Engagement Team at IMMA and PG student at TCD, engages with the art of renowned realist painter Dame Paula Rego, in an introduction to Rego’s solo exhibition Obedience and Defiance ...

Beth O’Halloran, Visitor Engagement Team at IMMA/lecturer at NCAD, looks at the transgressive role of female artists as cultural ethnographers – in particular the artist as flâneuse. Included are references ...

In this article Lisa Moran, Curator of Engagement & Learning Programmes at IMMA, considers the current debates about the role of statues and monuments in terms of the role of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham as...

Over recent weeks IMMA has been preparing for re-opening, as restrictions have been reduced nationwide, we are delighted that the grounds at IMMA are now once again fully open to the public. In this article,...

Besides such places as The Stonewall Inn, there are few physical places that are part of LGBTQ I+ cultural history - Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage is one of them. Writer and filmmaker Susan Thomson takes u...

Seán Kissane, Curator of Exhibitions at IMMA, looks back at the exhibition on Patrick Hennessy he curated in 2016. Hennessy was one of the first Irish artists to depict his life as a gay man in the face of s...

On 28 June 1969 police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich village New York, the 200 patrons resisted against the discriminatory police raid and rioted. A year later a committee was formed to co...