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- Imogen Stuart was born on May 25, 1927 in Berlin, Germany. She died on March 24, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland.
- With Vicki Donovan she designed the silver tabernacle in St. Mel's Cathedral, Longford, Longford.
- Stuart spent most of the remainder of her life in Ireland, occasionally returning to live in Berlin for extended periods, and she was one of Ireland's best-known sculptors with work in public and private collections throughout Europe and the U.S.
- A professor of sculpture at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, she was also a member of Aosdána, and received honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin (2002), University College Dublin (2004), and NUI Maynooth (2005).
- Imogen Stuart was a German-Irish sculptor, influenced by 19th century Expressionism and early Irish Christian art.
- In 2010 she was awarded the McAuley medal (named after Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy in 1831) by the Irish president Mary McAleese, who paid tribute to her "genius", crafting "a canon of work that synthesises our complex past, present images and possible futures...as an intrinsic part of the narrative of modern Irish art".
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