The American film maker and sculptor Matthew Barney has won the £15,000 Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2001.
Barney was nominated for his film 'Cremaster 2' shown at Temple Bar Properties in Meeting House Square in May 2000.
Commenting on the awards Head of Exhibitions at IMMA, Brenda McParland said Matthew Barney was chosen "for his vibrant presentation of photographs in the exhibition and in acknowledgement of the originality of his 'Cremaster' series, in which he has created some of the most arresting images of our time."
The Irish Painter Basil Blackshaw recieved the award for a Sustained Contribution to the Visual Arts in Ireland and was presented with a specially-commissioned set of polished candelsticks made by silversmith Seamus Gill.
The awards were presented this evening at the Irish Museum of Modern Art by the poet and writer Anthony Cronin.
