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Sat 11 Nov 2002Exposing memory's limitationsFalse Memory, Willie Doherty's retrospective at IMMA, is an encapsulation of the recurring issues in his work, especially those relating to the recent history of the North, he tells Aidan Dunne.Since he began exhibiting in the mid-1980s, Willie Doherty has become one of the most highly regarded and influential Irish artists of his generation, with a formidable reputation nationally and internationally and a voluminous, impressive body of work to his credit. In False Memory, a compact retrospective of his work at IMMA, certain themes recur.