Alice Maher
b. Cahir, 1956
Place of BirthCahir, County Tipperary
BiographyAlice Maher was born in Cahir, County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland.She studied art at the Crawford Municipal College of Art in Cork, the University of Ulster, Belfast, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited throughout Ireland and also in Britain, The USA, Japan, Germany, Poland, Finland and China. In 1994 she was selected to represent Ireland at the Sao Paulo Bienal and in 1996 was shortlisted for the IMMA Glen Dimplex Artist's Award in Dublin. Also in 1996 her work was featured in the major celebration of Irish culture in France, l'Imaginaire Irlandais, where her solo exhibition Swimmers took place at le Crèdac d'Art. She also participated in a large outdoor exhibition Art Grandeur Nature with the Japanese artists Endo and Teiichi Tahara.
She works in a variety of media, as a painter, sculptor and printmaker, some of her work overlapping between these categories. She has a tendency to use materials which "carry their own history", particularly materials associated with rural labour or holding strong cultural significance, and issues of feminist concern arise through much of this work.
