51:, overseen by the President of the Institution. Each year the Board invite a small number of distinguished artists to add their portraits to the collection for a nominal fee. Additional works of deceased artists are also purchased. The Trustees intended to publish a volume of works every decade to record the growth of the collection. The board of trustees has at various times included art-historians and critics from across the island. The fee paid to artists has risen over time and in 1997 stood at £250 to cover the cost of materials.
73:. The collection has expanded to include works by painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramicists, photographers and mixed media artists. Although comprising mainly twentieth and twenty-first century artists, the collection has also grown to include historical works from previous centuries. Each year the new artists are invited to a meal at the Jean Monnet Theatre where their works are projected onto the walls as the artists are formally introduced to the assembled audience.
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presented the same selection of works from the collection in a visiting exhibition at the Boston
University Art Gallery in 1992. In 2003 a selection of works was presented at Draíocht in Blanchardstown.
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contributions made by Irish artists in their own lifetime. The first Board of
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