This was an exhibition of the work of the six artists shortlisted for the 1997 Glen Dimplex Artists Award – sculptors Stephen Craig and Dorothy Cross, painter Willie McKeown, multi-media artist Maurice O’Connell, photographer Paul Seawright and Phelan/McLoughlin, who work in time-based art forms.
The £15,000 award, designed to mark a significant level of achievement or development in the work and practice of exhibiting artists, is open to Irish artists who have exhibited in Ireland or elsewhere and to non-Irish artists who have exhibited in Ireland in a stated period.