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Alice Hanratty (1939 – 13 May 2025) was an Irish artist who specialised in
printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...
, especially involving etching.


Life

Alice Hanratty was born in
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in 1939. She studied painting and printmaking at the
National College of Art and Design The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution, offering the largest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the country. Originating as a drawing school in 1746, many of t ...
, Dublin, and the
Hornsey College of Art Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey. From 1955 to 1973, when it was me ...
,
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. She spent some time working in East Africa in the late 1960s, which had some influence on her work. She was a member of
Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association or academy of artists, each of whom must have produced a distinguished body of work of genuine originality. It was created in 1981 by the country's Arts Council on the initiati ...
, the academy or affiliation of Irish artistsAosdána short biography
and was for a time, a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. As well as exhibiting work in major Irish group shows, she represented Ireland at exhibitions such as the ''International Impact Exhibition'',
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in 1989; the ''Works on Paper Group Exhibition'' at the Armory,
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in 1992; the ''London Original Print Fair'',
Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...
, in 1995; the ''International Biennale of Print'',
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in 1998; and the ''Estampe International Print Exchange'',
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, in 2001. Her work was also included in group shows at home and abroad, including ‘The Delighted Eye’ in London (1979); ‘Irish Artists’ in Chicago (1980); ‘Irish Women Artists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day’ in Dublin (1987); ‘International Impact Exhibition’ in Kyoto (1989); ‘London Original Print Fair’ at the Royal Academy of Arts (1995); and the Estampe International Print Exchange’ in Paris (2001). Hanratty died on 13 May 2025.The death has occurred of Alice Hanratty
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Works in collections

Her work is held in several major collections, including those of
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, the
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and the
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.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanratty, Alice 1939 births 2025 deaths Aosdána members 20th-century Irish painters 21st-century Irish painters Artists from Dublin (city) Alumni of the National College of Art and Design 20th-century Irish women painters 21st-century Irish women painters