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Anne Madden

ANNE MADDEN

b.1932, London

Born to Irish and Anglo-Chilean parents, Anne madden spent her first years in Chile but was raised in Co. Clare and in London, where she studied at the Chelsea School of Art.

With the Irish painter Louis Le Brocquy, whom she married in 1958, she moved to the village of Carros in the south of France; she painted a major work, Empyrius, on the vaulted ceiling of the International Contemporary Art Centre there in 1999, and the centre's main gallery is named after the two artists.

In 1965, she represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale. Her poured paintings from the 1960s, and the Megalith series of large abstract vertical works from the 1970s, are both in part based on the megalithic monuments in the Burren in Co. Clare. She has held more than 40 solo exhibitions, and her work is held by national museums and modern art collections worldwide. In 1994 she published Louis le Brocquy: Seeing His Way.

Over time, she has made paintings and drawings and now prints, influenced strongly by abstract impressionists she met during her time in France. She has now returned to live mostly in Ireland.

IMMA has curated an extensive retrospective of her work, showing summer to autumn 2007 at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

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Aurora Borealis I

Aurora Borealis III

Aurora Borealis II