The original catalogue from Mary Farl Powers’ posthumous exhibition at IMMA in 1995 has been digitised and is now available to read below. The re-publication of this book, which contains rare writings on Powers’ work, coincides with the current  display of a selection of her works from the IMMA Collection in the exhibition  ‘A Fiction Close to Reality’ (running until 14 October 2019).

'Personage' and 'Holy Show' are two new poems by Sarah Clancy, commissioned by IMMA and written in response to Janet Mullarney’s exhibition, 'Then and Now: Janet Mullarney', 15 Feb-29 Sept 2019. Personage relates specifically to the white child figures that feature in Janet sculptures ‘Domestic Gods I’ and ‘Domestic Gods II’, both part of the IMMA Collection, while Holy Show responds to the exhibition more generally.

The exhibition A Vague Anxiety at IMMA invited a range of emerging Irish and international artists to consider the macro and micro anxieties that inform a certain experience of the world today. In this essay, curator of the exhibition Seán Kissane considers some of the ways that the technologies that drive our daily lives influence that experience.

Walker and Walker have collaborated professionally since 1989 and have become one of Ireland’s most highly regarded artists internationally. Nowhere without no(w) showcases a number of pre-existing works from the artists’ extensive 30 year career with a series of new works responding to their ongoing research into language, its meaning and its construction. Here Joe Walker provides a detailed contextual walkthrough of the exhibition, exploring individual works in depth.

In association with IMMA's 2019 programme, Dublin based writer and researcher Eva Kenny explores overlapping themes of borders - Northern Ireland, Brexit and Civil Rights, that comes to the fore in Cammock’s current exhibition The Long Note presented in the Project Spaces.

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, writer and Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish at University College Dublin, examines the work of Fergus Martin as part of the IMMA Collection: Then and Now series.