Editing Imogen Stuart (section)

==Legacy==
A professor of sculpture at the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]], [[Dublin]], she was also a member of [[Aosdána]],<ref name="a1">{{cite web|url = http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Stuart.aspx |work=[[Aosdána]] | title = Aosdána – Members – Imogen Stuart|access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref> and received honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin (2002), University College Dublin (2004), and NUI Maynooth (2005).<ref name="IAc">"[https://www.artscouncil.ie/News/The-Arts-Council-expresses-its-sadness-at-the-passing-of-Aosdana-member-and-Saoi,-sculptor-Imogen-Stuart/ The Arts Council expresses its sadness at the passing of Aosdána member and Saoi, sculptor Imogen Stuart]". Arts Council of Ireland, 25 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024</ref> 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.<ref name=saoi>{{Cite news |last=Duncan |first=Pamela |title=Imogen Stuart, Edna O'Brien and William Trevor elected Saoithe |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/imogen-stuart-edna-o-brien-and-william-trevor-elected-saoithe-1.2353089|work=Irish Times |date=16 September 2015 |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref>

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".{{sfn|Scally|2010}} The biography ''Imogen Stuart, Sculptor'' on her work and life was published in 2002 by the art critic and writer [[Brian Fallon (critic)|Brian Fallon]], and included a foreword by the archaeologist and historian [[Peter Harbison]].{{sfn|Robinson|2002|pages=215—222}}