McCauley medal for Imogen Stuart
SCULPTOR Imogen Stuart RHA is to receive a lifetime achievement award in Limerick from one of her biggest admirers, President Mary McAleese. The award is Mary Immaculate College’s McAuley Medal and the ceremony will take place at the South Circular Road college on Friday September 3.
Established last year and presented then to the late Mrs Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “those on whom this honour is bestowed are recognised by the college as torch bearers, illuminating the ways in which a single individual can make an extraordinary and lasting difference in the lives of others”.
The Berlin born Imogen Stuart was the eldest daughter of Germany’s leading art critic of the 1930s. She became a pupil of the expressionist sculptor Otto Hitzberger, marrying fellow pupil Ian Stuart, son of writer Francis Stuart and Iseult Gonne.
Imogen Stuart became one of the country’s most prominent artists, known for ecclesiastical commissions such as the Stations of the Cross in Muckross and Ballintubber Abbey and the bronze reliefs in Galway Cathedral. She is a member of Aosdána and is the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Professor of Sculpture.
Six of her works are in MIC, three of them life-size statutes commissioned almost 50 years ago.
Cello strum to the History of Art
A SIGNIFICANT expansion in courses and workshops at Blueberry Art Gallery, Ennis Road, sees a Foundation Course in Architecture being offered for the coming academic year. You can also choose from Preparation Courses for Art College in Fashion and Design, and there’s a new option, a first in Limerick, in Painting towards Spirituality. Exciting times and tuition ahead for those who sign up at Oakdale House, opposite Clarion Suites Hotel.
Blueberry has already established workshops and courses with experts within the respective fields of Oils, Acrylics, Stained Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery Making. New media influences this year, from September on, include Photoshop, Web Design, Graphic Design and Photography. Music classes are another new departure.
There are more still available at this seven day gallery and framing business which is now a centre for the arts and their learning – History of Art, and Poetry are on the agenda. Email [email protected].
€10,000 for Art in the Community
2010 is first year that the Arts Council is providing a Bursary award as part of the Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. It’s worth €10,000 and aims to support individual professional artists in any artform working in the field of Arts and Older People.
Note deadline for applications is Monday Sept 27 at 5pm. Full details on how to apply : http://tinyurl.com/2uoqaa4
To find out more about the application process and eligibility criteria visit: www.create-ireland.ie. A series of talks will also take place in various venues over the next two months supported by involved agencies.
Occupy Paper, e-magazine
OCCUPY Space, the collective artists’ venue on the corner of Thomas and Catherine Streets, is now self-publishing. Occupy Paper is the online magazine in PDF format for contemporary art which will run alongside the visual art programme at Occupy Space.
The e-magazine will expand on the exhibitions and events happening in the gallery as well as provide a platform for critique and dialogue between emerging and established artists in Limerick and beyond.
Issue 2 is now available downline at http://occupy-space.blogspot.com for a review of Mary Noonan and Damien O’Connell’s show Island in Occupy Space, and interviews with Gareth Jenkins Laura McMorrow and Beth Fox.
