Alice Maher

Alice Maher (born Cahir, Co. Tipperary, 1956) is an Irish painter and sculptor.

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.

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.

Work in collections or on display

• The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• The Arts Council of Ireland including
  • Nettle Coat (1996)
• The Crawford Gallery, Cork, including
  • Irish Dancers (1992)
• Fairytale Wall (2002), Special Investigation Unit, Level 2, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

External links and references

• 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