Alice Maher was born on 1956 and is a contemporary Irish artist working in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography and installation.
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Alice Maher later graduated from the University of Limerick and the Crawford College of Art in Cork.
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Alice Maher spent time in San Francisco Art Institute in 1986 as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Alice Maher has explored the themes of childhood and death, such as Mnemosyne, 2003, wherein she creates a bedlike structure constructed from refrigerator coils; when the coils become frosty they gleam a luminous white sheen.
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Alice Maher is interested in how identities, particularly gendered identities, are constructed by history and culture.
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Alice Maher's work was the subject of a survey show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, in 2012 titled Becoming.
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Alice Maher represented Ireland at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial in 1994.
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Alice Maher has collaborated with artists from a range of disciplines.
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Alice Maher collaborated with the composer Trevor Knight since 1999.
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In 2018, Alice Maher collaborated with the poet Doireann Ni Ghriofa on the book Nine Silences published by Salvage Press.