[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...
Clíodhna Shaffery selected, at random, three artists from the Artists' Panel: Patricia McKenna, Beth O’Halloran and Cliona Harmey and interviewed them about their experience. She also considered written feed...
Christine Mackey, a practicing artist and a member of IMMA’s Artists’ Panel for the period 2005 – 2006 provides a unique ‘insider’ perspective on the role of the artist in a museum or gallery context. Drawin...
In his essay The Artist and the Institution, Mick Wilson, artist and writer, and currently Head of Research and Postgraduate Development in the National College of Art and Design, considers aspects of the ro...
The artist can have many roles in a museum or gallery. The focus of this series of articles for Artist's Panel 2005-6 is on those artists who are specifically concerned with the encounter between the art wor...
The Hours is a reading of the Daros-Latinamerica Collection seen from the perspective of time. It enables us to traverse different levels, spaces and times of varying intensity, with the mornings, siestas, a...
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