Alice Maher (born at Kilmoyler near Cahir, County Tipperary, 1956) is an Irish painter and sculptor. Cahir (An Cathair in Irish, meaning the fortified city) is a town in Tipperary, Ireland. ... County Tipperary (Tiobraid Ãrann in Irish) is a traditional county in the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Alice Maher was educated at the University of Limerick and the Crawford College of Art in Cork. She spent time in San Francisco Art Institute in 1986 as a Fulbright Scholar and represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo Bienal in 1994. The University of Limerick (UL) was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act, 1989. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...
Alice Maher often paints textiles, ropes and hair and sometimes includes these materials in her work. She is interested in how identities, particularly gendered identities, are constructed from the peculiar texture history and culture give to artefacts that surround us.
Fairytale Wall (2002), Special Investigation Unit, Level 2, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as the IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Irelands leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. ... The Arts Council of Ireland is a government funded body which promotes art in the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Aosdána short biography
Isabel Nolan (2003) review of Mnemosyne in Circa 104.
Chérie Driver (2003) review of Portraits in Circa 106.
Dorothy Walker (2002) Maher, Alice in Brian Lalor (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
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