Pictiúr our popular children’s book illustration exhibition closed last weekend with a celebratory family day.  Katy Fitzpatrick, Children’s Programme Coordinator, reflects here on the exhibition and the va...

One of the unique aspects of the Irish Museum of Modern Art is its location within the historic building and grounds of the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham. At the end of 2013, through a project calle...

It’s like fishing. You have to show up. This is how Mark Wall, a licensed amateur radio operator of South Eastern Amateur Radio Group (SEARG), describes the process of communicating with Morse code via shor...

Moving away from the traditional focus on the look and construction of buildings, IAF@IMMA provides a forum for the dissemination and discussion of architecture’s culture, offering critique and support in eq...

[caption id="attachment_158" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Sarah Browne, Remembering Gray, 2013, In collaboration with Alice Lyons and South East Amateur Radio Group (SEARG), Installation shot showing Mar...

Illustration is a brilliant and unique artform, and for many people, book illustration is their first taste of the wider world of visual art. The reputation of our children’s writers and illustrators has gro...

Working on In the Line of Beauty, an exhibition of contemporary Irish art in the East Ground galleries at IMMA, has been a great experience. The show was in development for almost two years, so it was wonder...

Action all Areas – IMMA invites families of all ages to join us in our eight days of action! [caption id="attachment_109" align="aligncenter" width="611"] Priscila Fernandes, Calibration Circle, 2012, video ...

[caption id="attachment_104" align="aligncenter" width="611"] Signage going up at IMMA for the Reopening! Photo: Mark Maguire[/caption] We are in the final stages of preparation for our reopening on October ...

At the opening of our most recent exhibition The Celtic Surrealist, the first retrospective in Ireland of the works of Leonora Carrington, artist Alice Maher delighted visitors with her opening address.  It ...

This week Sophie Byrne, IMMA’s Assistant Curator for Talks recaps our highly successful Seminar Rediscovering Leonora Carrington held last Tuesday 17 September preceding The Celtic Surrealist exhibition open...

I am really honoured to have the enviable job of curating the forthcoming exhibition from the IMMA collection. Someone once asked me if curating from the collection was like being a kid in a sweetshop; in so...

This weekend through Monday 26 August, the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival is taking place where, together with IMMA's National Programme, Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Beckett's pla...

Welcome to our first post on the IMMA Blog!We thought we would start the blog rolling by asking Exhibitions Curator Seán Kissane about the upcoming Leonora Carrington exhibition, The Celtic Surrealist.  We h...