Crawford gallery to get slice of new €1m acquisition fund

Crawford director Mary McCarthy said it would allow the Cork gallery and IMMA to continue to promote artists and their work by adding to the national collection.

The fund will enable Crawford and IMMA to purchase artworks from contemporary Irish artists, or artists based in Ireland.

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork will be one of two Irish institutions to benefit from a €1 million fund established for the purchase of new works of art.

Announced this morning by Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Art, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the Cork gallery is to get €400,000 of the fund, with the other €600,000 going to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.