Reservoir: Sketchbooks & Selected Works - Hardcover

Alice Maher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909399353 ISBN 13: 9781909399358

Publisher: Roads Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Reservoir showcases Alice Mahers never-before-seen collection of sketchbooks and notebooks that span her entire career. These colourful, playful and evocative documents are placed alongside some of Mahers pivotal artworks, inviting the reader to examine how the artist drew from her reservoir of sketches, musings and ideas to form the cornerstones of her renowned artistic career, and to examine the complex relationship between inspiration and nished pieces. Beautifully crafted and designed with a full and innovative engagement with the material, Reservoir draws from Alice Mahers famed body of work to become a work of art in itself.

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Review:

Its a rare ability to be able to communicate equally with those interested in art and those not so interested, and is only possible because Maher is so gifted --The Irish Times

Reservoir is a visually gorgeous production that provides an intriguing glimpse into the creative thought processes of one of Irelands most important artists. --Irish Art Review

About the Author:

Born in 1956, Alice was awarded a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster and a Fulbright Scholarship to San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited widely in Ireland, England and the United States. In 2008, the David Nolan Gallery in New York hosted a solo exhibition of new drawings and sculptures entitled Hypnerotomachia. Mahers work can be seen in significant international collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the British Museum, London; the Hammond Museum, Los Angeles; and the Pompidou Centre, Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Roads Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909399353
• ISBN 13: 9781909399358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192