- 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".
- She studied under the sculptor and professor Otto Hitzberger until 1950, learning modelling, carving and relief techniques with a variety of materials. She met her future husband, the Irishman Ian Stuart there in 1948; he also studied under Hitzberger and became a significant Irish artist in his own right.
- She was elected Saoi ("wise one") by Aosdána in 2015 as the highest honour that can be bestowed by the state-supported association of Irish creative artists.
- She designed the sculpture in the town square of Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare.
- Growing up in wartime Berlin and encouraged by her father, she became interested in drawing and sculpting at a young age.
- Mainly working in wood and stone, but also in bronze, clay and terracotta, she is best known for her work in creating church settings.
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