Artist

Alice Maher

Alice Maher was educated at the University of Limerick and Crawford College of Art Cork. She was awarded a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster and shortly after a Fulbright Scholarship to San Francisco Art Institute. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography and installation. She has exhibited widely in Ireland, England and the United States, and represented Ireland in the 22nd São Paolo Bienal.

In 2008, The David Nolan Gallery in New York hosted a solo exhibition of new drawings and sculptures titled Hypnerotomachia. In 2007, a large survey show of her work titled Natural Artifice was held at the Brighton and Hove Museum. Also in that year she completed a major drawing installation, The Night Garden, for the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

Earlier exhibitions include: Orsola, an installation at the Oratorio di San Lodovico, Venice in 2006; Rood at the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin in 2005; Portraits at Purdy Hicks Gallery, London in 2003; Gorget at the David Nolan Gallery, New York in 2000; Knot at Dublin City Gallery - Hugh Lane, Dublin in 1999; Swimmers at Le Credac Centre d’Art, Ivry-sur-Seine in 1996; and Familiar at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin in 1994.

She lives and works in Ireland.