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Alice Maher:
Vox Materia
VISuAl ArTS
To Saturday 05 May
Time: 10am to 5pm Monday to Friday
2pm to 5pm Saturday
Vox Materia comprises a multi-part installation of
sculpture and works on paper.
Stemming from Maher’s consideration of a 12th
Century mermaid carving at nearby Kilcooley Abbey,
this show meditates on voice and silence. The
mermaid is a hybrid creature that transgresses
boundaries between human and animal, and is often
associated with traumatic loss of voice. Maher deploys
the mermaid not as a motif, bu t as an ambiguous and
powerful conceptual tool to explore ideas of language,
embodiment, agency, and autonomy. The artist begins
by adopting and documenting contorted postures;
creating strained silhouettes that gesture towards a
language of the body in extremis.
Vox Materia exploits the tactile, contingent qualities of
woodcut and watercolour to articulate amoebic, inter-
elementary forms while a series of hand-held
sculptural forms create new material and corporeal
vocabularies.
Vox Materia is curated by Pluck Projects.
‘Vox Hybrida 7’, 2018, wood relief, hand
tinted. – Photo credit: Matt Gidney
Tipperary Bealtaine Festival presents
DISCuSSSIOn
Powerful Voices: Alice Maher in
conversation with Catriona Crowe
Thursday 03 May
Time: 7.30pm Price: FREE
As part of the Vox Materia Exhibition and
Bealtaine Festival, Artist Alice Maher speaks
with Catriona Crowe - Head of Special
Projects at the National Archives of Ireland.
The discussion will look at Alice’s work, its
influences and the private and public
contexts that inform it. Recognising the
centenary of women’s suffrage, the
conversation will also address the
relationship of artists in addressing and
enabling changes in the social and political
sphere and how this comes about through
their work and career.
Catriona Crowe
Alice Maher
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