AT the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday night, an exhibition of works by the four artists shortlisted for the £15,000 Glen Dimplex Awards opened to a supportive crowd. Individual spaces have been allocated within the gallery for the artists' work, be it video, audio, text, or photography.

Orla Barry's Knots 1998, a series of 80 slides, grabbed everyone's attention as they stood watching the intermittent flashing images. Barry is currently exhibiting at Gaswork in London.

Catherine Yass's vivid photographic transparencies were also a talking point of the evening; she is also nominated for her work, called Services, at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. Susan McWilliam and Hiroshi Sugimoto are the other two nominees.

Among those mingling in the gallery were the Mexican ambassador, Daniel Dultzin; Sheila Pratschke, director of the Irish Film Institute and Adele Dalsiner from Boston College, who was taking a break from the WERRC conference.