{"id":8570,"date":"2002-09-28T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T12:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8570"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:58:18","slug":"alice-maher","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=alice-maher","title":{"rendered":"Alice Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mnemosyne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swansea Museum<\/p>\n<p>Alice Maher was intrigued by a Victorian painting hanging in Swansea Museum called \u2018The Death of Sarah Dillwyn\u2019. It is a group portrait of all the living members of the child&#8217;s family ranged around her bed at the very moment of her death. The artist\u2019s effort to &#8216;freeze the moment&#8217; was particularly poignant and set Maher off on a similar quest, but toward an entirely different type of art work &#8211; a large scale sculpture that investigates the form of &#8216;bed&#8217; and the meaning of &#8216;memory&#8217; through the action of freezing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018MNEMOSYNE\u2019 is a frozen object which hums quietly in the middle of the main gallery at Swansea Museum while layers of frost creep over the surface to chill the air with associated ideas\u2019.<br \/>\nAlice Maher 2002<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemosyne<br \/>\nSwansea Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13069,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[412],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8570","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13070,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8570\/revisions\/13070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}