Alice Maher

Alice Maher (born 1956) born at Kilmoyler, near Bansha, County Tipperary, Ireland, is a noted artist who uses a wide variety of media including sculpture, photography and installation.

Education

Alice Maher received her early education at Ballydrehid National School and at Coláiste Chríost Rí, Cahir. She later graduated from the University of Limerick and the Crawford College of Art in Cork. Then she did an MA at the University of Ulster, Belfast from 1985-86.[1] She spent time in San Francisco Art Institute in 1986 as a Fulbright Scholar and represented Ireland at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1994.

Works

The Axe (and the Waving Girl) by Alice Maher, 2003

Alice Maher is a contemporary Irish artist who works in a wide range of media, often from outside the tradition of fine art and more from the natural and domestic world, such as hair, nettles, bees, thorns.[2] More recently she returns to her roots in drawing and videos of her drawings. She has been adventurous in her explorations of themes of childhood and death, such as Mnemosyne, 2003, wherein she creates a bedlike structure constructed from refrigerator coils; when the coils become frosty they gleam a brilliant, luminous white sheen. She is interested in how identities, particularly gendered identities, are constructed from the peculiar texture history and culture give to artefacts that surround us. Her book Reservoir (Dublin: Roads Publishing, 2014) will bring the collection of sketchbooks that she has created over many years to the public's attention for the first time.

Work in collections or on display

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Deepwell, Katy (2005). Dialogues : women artists from Ireland. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 136. ISBN 9781850436218.
  2. ↑ The Women Artists Slide Library Journal 22 (April–May 1988). "A review of the art criticism surrounding Painting Women, the Verbogene Museum, Women's Work, Alice Maher, Julie Umerle, Lotte Laserstein, Therese Oulton, Suzanne Treister and Gwen Hardie". Retrieved 5 November 2014

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