# Alice Maher > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Maher > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Maher.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Maher > Source revision: 1339124525 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Irish artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox artist | birth_date = 1956 | education = Crawford Municipal College of Art, Cork | alma_mater = University of Ulster | known_for = Sculpture, photography, installations | spouse = Dermot Seymour | birth_place = Kilmoyler, County Tipperary | elected = Aosdána | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RHA|}} }} '''Alice Maher''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RHA}} (born 1956) is a contemporary [Irish](/source/Republic_of_Ireland) artist working in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography and installation.{{Cite web|url=https://imma.ie/artists/alice-maher/|title=Alice Maher|website=IMMA|language=en-IE|access-date=2019-04-16}} ==Education== Maher was born in [Kilmoyler](/source/Kilmoyler), near [Bansha](/source/Bansha), [County Tipperary](/source/County_Tipperary) and received her early education at Ballydrehid National School and at Coláiste Chríost Rí, [Cahir](/source/Cahir). She later graduated from the [University of Limerick](/source/University_of_Limerick) and the [Crawford College of Art](/source/Cork_Institute_of_Technology) in [Cork](/source/Cork_(city)). Then she undertook an MA at the [University of Ulster](/source/University_of_Ulster), Belfast in 1985 and 1986.{{cite book|last=Deepwell|first=Katy|title=Dialogues : women artists from Ireland|date=2005|publisher=I.B. Tauris|location=London|isbn=9781850436218|page=136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xk5C8EYuU1wC&dq=alice%20maher&pg=PA136}} Maher spent time in [San Francisco Art Institute](/source/San_Francisco_Art_Institute) in 1986 as a [Fulbright Scholar](/source/Fulbright_Scholar).{{Cite web|title = Alice Maher - Current Member {{!}} Aosdana|url = http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Maher.aspx|website = aosdana.artscouncil.ie|accessdate = 2015-10-13|archive-date = 23 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923022140/http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Maher.aspx|url-status = dead}} ==Career== thumb|right|''The Axe (and the Waving Girl)'' by Alice Maher, 2003 Maher works in a range of media, often from outside the tradition of fine art and more from the natural and domestic world, such as hair, nettles, bees and thorns.[http://journals.gold.ac.uk/make.html ''Women Artists Slide Library Journal'' '''22''' (April–May 1988). Retrieved 5 November 2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105183554/http://journals.gold.ac.uk/make.html |date=5 November 2014 }} She has explored the 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 luminous white sheen.{{Cite web|title = Circa: c104: Summer 2003 – Alice Maher, Mnemosyne|url = http://circaartmagazine.website/summer-2003-alice-maher-mnemosyne/|website = circaartmagazine.website|accessdate = 2015-10-13|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122023/http://circaartmagazine.website/summer-2003-alice-maher-mnemosyne/|archivedate = 2016-03-04}} She is interested in how identities, particularly gendered identities, are constructed by history and culture.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} === Exhibitions === Maher's work was the subject of a survey show at the [Irish Museum of Modern Art](/source/Irish_Museum_of_Modern_Art), IMMA, in 2012 titled ''Becoming''. The exhibition took place in the IMMA's temporary location at Earlsfort Terrace as the museum was undergoing renovations at the time.{{Cite news|title = Through the looking-glass with Alice|url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/through-the-looking-glass-with-alice-1.550683|newspaper = The Irish Times|accessdate = 2015-10-13}} Maher represented Ireland at the [São Paulo Art Biennial](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Art_Biennial) in 1994.{{Cite web|title = Anglo Celt - EVERYWOMAN - Innovative IMMA exhibition in Cavan|url = http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/roundup/articles/2007/12/12/25094-everywoman--innovative-imma-exhibition-in-cavan|website = Anglo Celt|accessdate = 2015-10-13}}{{Dead link|date=April 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} === Collaborations === Maher has collaborated with artists from a range of disciplines. She collaborated with the composer Trevor Knight since 1999. Knight has produced soundtracks for her animated videos. ''Visitant,'' a live show combining dance, music and visual art, was a collaboration between Maher, Knight, the [Butoh](/source/Butoh) dancer Gyohei Zaitsu and musician [Áine O'Dwyer](/source/%C3%81ine_O'Dwyer). ''Visitant'' was performed at the [Project Arts Centre](/source/Project_Arts_Centre) in 2014.{{Cite news|title = Dark collaboration: four artists, four disciplines, one show|url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/dark-collaboration-four-artists-four-disciplines-one-show-1.1697607|newspaper = The Irish Times|accessdate = 2015-10-13}} Maher's film ''Cassandra's Necklace'', produced for her retrospective exhibition at IMMA in 2015, was based on an unpublished script by Irish writer [Anne Enright](/source/Anne_Enright) and features the actress [Charlie Murphy](/source/Charlie_Murphy_(actress)).{{Cite web|title = Alice Maher, and getting better at what you do {{!}} Pop Life|url = http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/poplife/2012/10/16/alice-maher-and-getting-better-at-what-you-do/|website = www.irishtimes.com|accessdate = 2015-10-13}} In 2018, Maher collaborated with the poet [Doireann Ní Ghríofa](/source/Doireann_N%C3%AD_Ghr%C3%ADofa) on the book ''Nine Silences'' published by Salvage Press.{{Cite web|title = 100 Archive |url = http://www.100archive.com/project/nine-silences}} ===Collections=== * ''[Berry Dress](/source/Berry_Dress)'', 1994, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin * The [Arts Council of Ireland](/source/Arts_Council_of_Ireland) including * ''Nettle Coat'' (1996) * The Crawford Gallery, Cork, including * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050211185015/http://crawfordartgallery.com/Paintings/AlMaher.html ''Irish Dancers'' (1992)] * [http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/publicart/tour/tour6.htm ''Fairytale Wall'' (2002)], Special Investigation Unit, Level 2, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast == Bibliography == * Maher, Alices, ''Reservoir'' (Dublin: Roads Publishing, 2014) was a collection of the artist's sketchbooks{{Cite web|title = RESERVOIR BY ALICE MAHER: SKETCHBOOKS & SELECTED WORKS|url = http://www.irishartsreview.com/reservoir-by-alice-maher-sketchbooks-selected-works/|website = www.irishartsreview.com|accessdate = 2015-10-13}} * Allen Randolph, Jody. "Alice Maher, August 2009." ''Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland.'' Manchester: Carcanet, 2010. * Barber, Fiona. ''Familiar'' [essay]. Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery; Derry: Orchard Gallery, 1995. * Bourne, Cecile. ''Familiar'' [interview]. Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery; Derry: Orchard Gallery, 1995. * Deepwell, Katy. "Alice Maher." ''Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland.'' London: IB Tauris, 2005. * Dickinson, Sheila. ‘Alice Maher, Rood’, ''Circa'' Magazine (Winter 2005), No. 114, pp. 86 – 87. * Ruane, Mebd. 'A Sting in the Tail.' ''Profile: Alice Maher''. Cork: Gandon Editions, 1998. 5-10. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Alice Maher}} *[http://www.alicemaher.com/ Official website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140310005353/http://www.greenonredgallery.com/artist.php?intArtistID=14 Alice Maher at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin] *[http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Maher.aspx Aosdána short biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923022140/http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Maher.aspx |date=23 September 2015 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122023/http://circaartmagazine.website/summer-2003-alice-maher-mnemosyne/ Isabel Nolan (2003) review of ''Mnemosyne'' in Circa 104.] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131244/http://circaartmagazine.website/winter-2003-portadown-alice-maher-at-millenium-court-arts-centre/ Chérie Driver (2003) review of ''Portraits'' in Circa 106.] *Dorothy Walker (2002) ''Maher, Alice'' in Brian Lalor (Ed.), ''The Encyclopedia of Ireland''. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. {{ISBN|0-7171-3000-2}} {{Authority control (arts)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maher, Alice}} Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Irish painters Category:21st-century Irish painters Category:20th-century Irish sculptors Category:Irish contemporary artists Category:Alumni of Cork Institute of Technology Category:Aosdána members Category:Artists from County Tipperary Category:20th-century Irish women painters Category:21st-century Irish women painters --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alice Maher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Maher) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Maher?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.