FEATURED ASSOCIATE
Drawing deCentered invite artists, curators,
arts writers ​to feature their practice. 
​Featured Artists to date: 2024: Alice Maher (IRE) 2023 Deborah Harty (UK), Fiona Robinson (UK),  ​2022: Marleen Kappe (NLD), Marisa Rappard (NLD), Romy Muirjers (NLD) Kevin Townsend (USA), Orla McHardy (IRE); Madlen Herrström (SE), Ram Samocha (IL), Mark Joyce (IRE), Mary-Ruth Walsh (IRE) 2021; Brian Fay (IRE),​ Marie Hanlon (IRE) 2020/2021; Arno Kramer (NLD) 2019/2020, 

FEATURED ARTIST: ALICE MAHER  
​July 2024

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The Hunter_Alice Maher_the Glorious Maids of the Charnel House charcoal, pencil, chalk and ink on paper122 X 102 cms. Shown at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin

One of Ireland’s leading artists, Alice Maher works within the realms of nature and culture, subversion and transformation, mythology and memory. Her work spans drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and moving image.  She represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1994. In 2007, a large survey show of her work, Natural Artifice, was held at the Brighton and Hove Museums. Also, in that year she completed a major drawing installation, The Night Garden, for the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. In 2012 the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented Becoming,  a retrospective of the artists 30 year practice. She has made many collaborative works in theatre, dance, film and social activism.  Her works can be seen in the collections of The Neuberger Museum, The Hammond Museum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Crawford Gallery Cork, The Fogg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the British Museum, the Ulster Museum and the Georges Pompidou Centre Paris.

Alice Maher is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin. David Nolan Gallery New York. Purdy Hicks Gallery London.

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The Gardener_Alice Maher_the Glorious Maids of the Charnel House charcoal, pencil, chalk and ink on paper. 122 X 102 cms. Shown at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin
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The Great Virgin_Alice Maher_ the Glorious Maids of the Charnel House charcoal, pencil, chalk and ink on paper. 122 X 102 cms. Shown at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin
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Alice Maher, Gatekeeper
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Dryad_Alice Maher_the Glorious Maids of the Charnel House charcoal, pencil, chalk and ink on paper. 122 X 102 cms. Shown at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin
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The Paragon_Alice Maher_the Glorious Maids of the Charnel House charcoal, pencil, chalk and ink on paper. 122 X 102 cms. Shown at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin

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