The Map: Untying the Knots

Rachel Fallon is a visual artist using sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance techniques to deal with themes of protection and defense in domestic realms and address women’s relationships to society. Her most recent work, Jelen Vangyk / I Am Present, was commissioned by the Kiscelli Museum/ Budapest Galeria, Hungary. It is a collaborative performance-based art activist piece relating to queer and female representation in public spaces. Her work is held in public collections including IMMA, the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.  She lives and works in Ireland.

Alice Maher’s work touches on a wide range of subjects often reprising, challenging, and expanding mythic and vernacular narratives. She is recognized for her experimental use of non-traditional materials, her explorations of embodiment and identity, and her incorporation of a range of literary, historical, and folkloric subject matter in a multi-various practice that spans drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and moving image. She represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1994. 

She has had solo shows at the Brighton and Hove Museum; the Djanogly Art Centre, Nottingham; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; and David Nolan Gallery, New York. In 2012 the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of the artist's 30-year practice. Her work can be seen in international collections including The Neuberger Museum, The Hammond Museum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Fogg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the British Museum, the Ulster Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.