Maud Cotter Explained

Maud Cotter
Birth Date:
Birth Place:Wexford, Ireland
Nationality:Irish
Alma Mater:Crawford Municipal College of Art and Design
Elected:Aosdána (2000)
Known For:installation art, drawing, sculpture, landscape art
Spouse:Peter Foynes

Maud Cotter (born 1954) is an Irish artist, active in installation art, drawing, sculpture and landscape art.[1] [2] [3] She is a member of Aosdána, an Irish association of artists.[4]

Early life

Cotter was born in Wexford in 1954.[5] [6]

Career

Cotter studied at the Crawford Municipal College of Art and Design in Cork (graduating in 1975).[7] In 1989 she was a co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory,[8] with Vivienne Roche, Eilis O'Connell and Danny McCarthy.[9] [10] A visit to Iceland in 1991 ignited an interest in sculpture.[11] She was elected to Aosdána in 2000.

Cotter is chiefly known for her work in sculpture.[12] Her work has been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Crawford Art Gallery and at the Hugh Lane Gallery.[13] [14] In 2022 she will exhibit at the Irish Arts Center in New York City and also at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida USA.[15]

Her early work used glass and steel. Since the early 1990s she has used metal, cardboard, industrial rubber, clear plastic, and other industrial materials, saying that these materials help her "explore issues of definitions and boundaries, containment and space".[6] Her practice is represented by domobaal gallery in London.

Personal life

Cotter is married to Peter Foynes.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maud Cotter: a consequence of - a dappled world - Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com.
  2. Web site: Maud Cotter making sense of space. Tina Darb. O’Sullivan. 18 September 2013. Irish Examiner.
  3. Web site: La Tannerie. Créer une proximité avec l'art contemporain. 21 July 2018. Le Telegramme.
  4. Web site: MAUD COTTER - Rubicon Gallery. yumpu.com.
  5. Web site: Artland - Discover and Buy Art Online. www.artland.com.
  6. Web site: Aosdána. aosdana.artscouncil.ie.
  7. Web site: DOMOBAAL – Artists – Maud Cotter – Biography. www.domobaal.com.
  8. http://nationalsculpturefactory.com/
  9. Web site: Maud Cotter: 'There was very little arts infrastructure in the country in the Eighties'. 28 July 2021. Irish Examiner.
  10. Web site: Maud Cotter: a consequence of – a dappled world, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane free admission. www.hughlane.ie.
  11. Web site: Maud Cotter. IMMA.
  12. Web site: Treasures: Don't look past the beauty of stained glass. independent. 27 October 2017 .
  13. News: Cork's Crawford gallery to get €3.3m for restoration. Paschal. Sheehy. 27 September 2020. www.rte.ie.
  14. Web site: In the Grace of its own Shadow - Maud Cotter. IMMA.
  15. News: New York's Irish Arts Center gets a new lease of life. Gemma. Tipton. The Irish Times.