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.
Stuart works in wood, bronze, stone, steel, clay and terracotta and has regularly exhibited at the annu
al 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. Furthermore, she is known for public works such as ‘Fiddler of Dooney’ and the figures located in the Stillorgan shopping centre portraying youth, innocence and joy.
Imogen Stuart's work featured in "Irish Women Artists: 1870 - 1970" (2014) exhibition. Please click here to view the catalogue.
Stuart's work also featured in "Ireland: Her people and landscape" (2012) exhibition.
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