Alice Maher
Alice Maher was born in Tipperary. She studied at University of Limerick and Crawford College of Art, Cork before undertaking her MA at University of Ulster in Belfast in 1986. She won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1986 and spent time at San Francisco Art Institute. She is internationally recognised and celebrated as one of Ireland’s most respected and influential artists. Her work spans a range of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and animation. Indeed, central to her practice is material transformation and the interrogation of her subject through various media. This investigation turns up evermore complex readings of the world around us, and notably, the ‘world within us’.
Central to her work is the female experience through female agency. She says of her practice that ‘Since about 1990, I’ve been trying to position the female at the centre of the work as a thinking, autonomous figure, not just a model….Because that’s how most of us had experienced it through culture. That the female was just a figure to be projected onto.’
Her work utilises a wide and unusual source of material, from bees, snail shells, hair and nettles, all taken from the natural world contriving to find a language through materials for the female voice.
She has exhibited internationally and her work is in a plethora of prestigious collections including the Arthur Goldberg Collection, US; the British Museum, UK; Fogg Museum, US; Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland and more.
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Central to her work is the female experience through female agency. She says of her practice that ‘Since about 1990, I’ve been trying to position the female at the centre of the work as a thinking, autonomous figure, not just a model….Because that’s how most of us had experienced it through culture. That the female was just a figure to be projected onto.’
Her work utilises a wide and unusual source of material, from bees, snail shells, hair and nettles, all taken from the natural world contriving to find a language through materials for the female voice.
She has exhibited internationally and her work is in a plethora of prestigious collections including the Arthur Goldberg Collection, US; the British Museum, UK; Fogg Museum, US; Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland and more.
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