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Public Forum on Amalgamation

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2009

Venue: Irish Museum of Modern Art   

A public forum on the amalgamation of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, announced by the Government in 2008, will be held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 18 November. The event is being organised by IMMA both as a means of exploring further the possible impact of the decision on the Museum and in response to the many queries which IMMA has received on the subject from visitors, artists, collectors and other stakeholders.

The forum aims to provide a cross section of perspectives on the amalgamation, both for and against, from a wide-ranging panel of speakers. In addition to drawing together the various strands of opinion on the issue, it will also make available the experience of international colleagues who have operated within, or been involved in setting up, an amalgamated structure and will give interested parties within Ireland the opportunity to contribute to the debate.

Programme

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2009

9.30     Participants arrive. Tea/coffee available

10.00   Chair, Terry Prone welcoming address

10.05   Eoin McGonigal, Chairperson, IMMA.

10.15   Two international directors speak of their personal experience of
            operating within/setting up an amalgamated structure

            Michael Houlihan, Director General, National Museum Wales

            Sune Nordgren, Founding Director of the National Museum of Art,
            Architecture and Design, Oslo, currently Project Manager at the Kivik Art
            Centre and the Museum Vandalorum in Sweden.

11.00   Noel Kelly, Director, Visual Artists Ireland.
            Jacinta Lynch, Director, Broadstone Studios
            Patrick T Murphy, Director, Royal Hibernian Academy

11.30   Tea/coffee

11.50   Jim Power, economist
            Pat Cooke, Director, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University
            College Dublin

12.20   Mike Fitzpatrick, Head of School, Limerick School of Art and Design.
            Brian Fay, artist, lecturer and member of IMMA’s Artists’ Panel

12.40   Lunch (including time for media interviews)

13.45   Anthony Cronin, writer and Saoi of Aosdána

13.55   Hughie O’Donoghue, artist
            Jaki Irvine, artist
            Jerome Ó Drisceoil, Director, Green on Red Gallery

14.25   Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA.

14.40   Tea/coffee

15.00   Round table discussions (or general open questions and answers)

15.30   Feedback from round tables

16.00    Chair draws forum to a close, with summary of conclusions