Maud Cotter (born 1954) is an Irish artist, active in

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drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and

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. She is a member of Aosdána, an Irish association of artists. Maud-cotter-hugh-lane-gallery-2021-denis-mortell-domobaal-01

Early life

Cotter was born in

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in 1954.

Career

Cotter studied at the Crawford Municipal College of Art and Design in Cork (graduating in 1975). In 1989 she was a co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory, with Vivienne Roche, Eilis O'Connell and Danny McCarthy. A visit to

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in 1991 ignited an interest in sculpture. She was elected to Aosdána in 2000. Cotter is chiefly known for her work in

. Her work has been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Crawford Art Gallery and at the Hugh Lane Gallery. In 2022 she will exhibit at the Irish Arts Center in New York City and also at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida USA. 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". Her practice is represented by domobaal, domobaal gallery in London.

Personal life

Cotter is married to Peter Foynes.

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