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Original Loose Sheets. Condition: Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Original Loose Sheets. This edition is based on the original and unique artist's book commissioned for the National Gallery of Ireland; with slight alterations to hand-painted color palette, different paper, and different cloth color of the box to help distinguish it from the original. "Memento Civitatem is a new collaborative work by visual artist Alice Maher and book artist Jamie Murphy. It is the first artists' book to be commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland, and has been specially designed for its display at the Gallery. Maher and Murphy were invited to create an artists' book in response to the Gallery's archives of artists who lived through the social and political developments commemorated by Ireland's Decade of Centenaries. Originating from Maher's research into the art, lives and ideals of six Irish artists - Grace Gifford, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Aloysius O'Kelly, William Orpen, Sarah Purser and Jack B. Yeats - Memento Civitatem explores our contemporary relationship to culture, citizenship, imagination and activism. Inspired by the Tarot card, a medium open to diverse and contradictory readings, the book presents twenty-one iconic image cards alongside words and phrases that are open to interpretation. Through the hand-set typography and an intuitive approach to image-making, Memento Civitatem is an ode to some of the artistic practices and the letterpress production processes of the period. â Responding to the thoughts and actions of six early twentieth century artists, Memento Civitatem is the result of an extended period of research and reflection on the meaning of citizenship as a legacy of those times, in all its complex and sometimes conflicted readings for the citizens of contemporary Ireland.' â " Alice Maher & Jamie Murphy" [National Gallery of Ireland] "[T]his special work pays homage to a number of artists who lived through the social and political developments on the island of Ireland in the early 1900's. Inspired by the art, lives and beliefs of six Irish artists - Grace Gifford, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Aloysius O'Kelly, William Orpen, Sarah Purser and Jack B. Yeats - Memento Civitatem looks to the past to explore Ireland's contemporary relationship with culture, citizenship, imagination and activism. The artists' book comprises 21 hand coloured images by Alice Maher that engage with various socio-political themes and concepts. In the format of tarot cards, the exquisite artworks explore themes such as â memory' and â the collective'. Creators of the artists' book, Alice Maher & Jamie Murphy said: "Responding to the thoughts and actions of six early twentieth century artists, Memento Civitatem is the result of an extended period of research and reflection on the meaning of citizenship as a legacy of those times, in all its complex and sometimes conflicted readings for the citizens of contemporary Ireland." [National Gallery of Ireland] QOTD from Jamie, "185 press passes later and [it's] printed." Alice Maher makes visual art that touches on a wide range of subjects often reprising, challenging and expanding mythic, historic, and vernacular narratives. Her work spans drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation and moving image. She represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1994. In 2012 the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented â Becoming', a retrospective of the artists 30 year practice. She has made many collaborative works in theatre, dance and film. Her works can be seen in the collections of The Neuberger Museum, The Hammond Museum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Fogg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the British Museum and the Georges Pompidou Centre Paris. Alice Maher is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. Jamie Murphy operates under the imprint of The Salvage Press, making books with particular attention to concept, materials and fine printing. At the National College of Art & Design his focus with students is on book-making and typographic experimentation. Collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines he produces book projects which are predominantly of Irish interest. Jamie has exhibited and spoken broadly about his work and has been the recipient of several major international awards. His books reside in private, public and institutional collections across the globe including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the Library of Congress, the Getty Research Institute, the British Library, Yale, and closer to home at the National Library of Ireland, National Irish Visual Arts Library, National Gallery of Ireland, Trinity College, UCD, and UCC. Bright and unmarred in tight and unmarred archival box. Red cloth covered solander box, colored illustrations, each folded sheet contains one inserted tarot card (plus title page, notes, and colophon). fo. np (24pp). Illus. (colored plates). Numbered limited edition of 40 copies.