PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Moira’s B.F.A. was at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts. She served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and, then received an M.F.A. at Southern Illinois University. Moira has taught sculpture, drawing, weaving, and mixed media. She built and ran foundries at Notre Dame University and at the University of Arizona. She exhibits her art in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. She has public art projects in Indiana, Arizona and Australia. She was artist in residence in St Petersburg, Russia, in Zurich, Switzerland and in India on a Fulbright grant. She was represented by Lerner Heller Gallery in New York, Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago, Carson and Shapiro in Denver, and now Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson. Her works are in museum and private collections in the USA, in Europe, Africa, Australia, South Africa, and Russia. Her focus is on painting forms in nature in grid groupings of small oil paintings that explore in detail textures and forms of the environment- plant parts, seeds and pods which are crucial to our environments. Moira’s lifelong interest in minute details and textures of nature and her early work in quilt making has resulted in this series.