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Alice Maher

Alice Maher (Born 1956) is active/lives in Ireland.  Alice Maher is known for Social issue themed abstract painting and sculpture.

Alice Maher (b.1956)

The Irish painter and sculptor Alice Maher was born in County Tipperary.  After taking a BA in European Studies at the University of Limerick, she studied drawing and painting at the Crawford College of Art in Cork.

Later she received an M.A. in fine arts from the University of Ulster, and then, in 1987, won a Fulbright scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute*.  As well as drawing and painting in oils and other media, Maher often creates works with materials like hair and rope, exploring themes of memory and identity.

Alice Maher is a member of a new generation of Irish female artists whose interests include effecting changes in what they consider to be a male-dominated establishment (eg. the Royal Hibernian Academy* has traditionally been slow to admit women despite the preponderance of female talent in artist organizations such as the Society of Dublin Painters and the Irish Exhibition of Living Art).

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