{"id":264,"date":"2002-09-28T04:31:50","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawrencebrown.eu\/LOCWS\/?p=264&#038;language=en"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","slug":"alice-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Alice Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mnemosyne<\/strong><br \/>\nSwansea Museum<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher1.jpg\" alt=\"maher1\" title=\"maher1\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher2.jpg\" alt=\"maher2\" title=\"maher2\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/maher\/maher3.jpg\" alt=\"maher3\" title=\"maher3\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\nAlice 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.<br \/>\n\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<br \/>\nFurther work by Alice Maher can be see at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicemaher.com\/\">www.alicemaher.com<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemosyne Swansea Museum Alice Maher was intrigued by a Victorian painting hanging in Swansea Museum called \u2018The Death of Sarah Dillwyn\u2019. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10,13],"tags":[17,54],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-installation","category-news","category-sculpture","tag-alice-maher","tag-locws-international-2002"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}