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116. Imogen Stuart RHA (b.1927)
Stillorgan Children
Bronze, 11.4cm ( 4.”) high, Signed
The eldest daughter of Germany’s leading art critic of the thirties, Imogen Stuart was born into a
cultured Berlin family and began to sculpt from a very early age. After meeting her Irish husband Ian
Stuart, the grandson of the artist Maud Gonne, through her studies in Berlin, she came to Ireland in
1949 and became interested in Irish saints and scholars and their connection to nature. She works
in wood, bronze, stone, steel, clay and terracotta and has regularly exhibited at the annual RHA and
Living Art exhibitions. A member of Aosdana since 1981, she was also elected a full member of
the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1990 and Professor of Sculpture by the RHA in 2000. She is well
known for her ecclesiastical artistic work such as the monumental Pope John Paul II in St Patrick’s
College Maynooth and the carved altar in the University College Cork chapel, but also public works
such as ‘Fiddler of Dooney’ and these figures located in the Stillorgan shopping centre, portayals of
youth, innocence and joy.
