Aideen Barry
& Alice Maher

Aideen Barry is a practising visual artist based in Ireland with a national and international profile. Her work is predominately concerned with otherness and the monsterous often using slapstick humour to leverage conversations around dark subject matter such as mental illness and abuse. Barry has shown projects in galleries, museums and moving image spaces such as Mothers Tankstation, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Louise T. Bloudin Gallery London, Moderne Mussett Sweden, The Loop Biennale Spain, The Wexner Centre Ohio, The Royal Hibernian Academy, the Museum des Beux Arts in Lyon, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, The Butler Gallery, The Banff Centre Canada, the Headlands Centre for the Arts San Francisco, Liste Art Fair Basel Switzerland, BAC Geneva, Arco Art Fair Spain and Catherine Clark Gallery, US. Her works are in National and International collections such as the Arts Council of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the OPW and Art OMI New York. Barry is a member of Aosdána.