Artist Imogen Stuart to receive the McAuley Medal at Limerick's Mary I college
PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will visit Mary Immaculate College this Friday to present the McAuley Medal to artist Imogen Stuart in honour of her lifetime contribution to the arts.
The medal was named in memory of Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, and the inaugural recipient of this award was Eunice Kennedy Shriver, honoured in 2008 in recognition of her work in establishing the Special Olympics.
Sculptor Imogen Stuart RHA has had a relationship with the Limerick college for over 50 years, after being invited to carve three life-size statues for the college by renowned architect Andy Devane.
In recent years the college has added numerous other pieces of her work to their collection, including a large carving in pitch-pine of "The Scholar and the Blackbird", as well as a standing stone featuring the "Madonna and Child", which is inscribed with a verse in Irish translated into English by the poet Seamus Heaney.
"My relationship with the College has lasted more than 50 years.
"I am very pleased that my works are beautifully situated within the college and very well cared for, which is important to me," said Ms Stuart.
She will be presented with the award this Friday, September 3, by the President.
Her move to Ireland from her native Berlin can be credited with meeting Ian Stuart, the son of writer Francis Stuart and Iseult Gonne, the daughter of Maud Gonne. Imogen visited Ireland with him in 1949, and now lives in Dublin.
In the coming months, Tanaiste Mary Coughlan will also visit the campus to open two new buildings following a major capital investment programme worth €40 million.
Tailteann, a state-of-the-art sport, leisure and physical education building, was built two years ago and was designed by Limerick based architects Murray O Laoire, which went into liquidation earlier this year.
The second new building - Teamhair/Tara cost in the region of €24 million, and will give the college 300 and 150-seat lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, computer facilities and a 500-seat multi-purpose theatre.
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