• Necklace of Tongues

    Necklace of Tongues
    Alice Maher, Artist’s Book

    Cover image: Necklaces of Tongues (2000), lamb’s tongues, rope
    Published Spring 2001 
    660 Copies
    46 Pages
    Hardcover book
    ISBN: 0-906630-11-8 
    Printed offset and letterpress on Cartiera di Cordenons Caneletto paper.
    Digital formatting of colour work Joe Kenny, Fethard .

    These texts and images are taken from notebooks and sketchbooks 1991–2000 with the exception of Continuous Drawing II, 2000, Mantle, 2000 and Gorget 2000, courtesy Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York, Leak­ing Head, 2001, together with the title work Necklace of Tongues, 2000. 
    The endpapers are taken from the name-panels of family tombs m Munster and Leinster written by the artist, with her left hand.