Anita Groener was born in The Netherlands and lives and works in Dublin. Forthcoming exhibitions in 2009 include Gilgamesh in Rubicon Gallery Dublin and West Cork Arts Centre Skibbereen and the group exhibition Into Irish Drawing which will tour from Limerick City Art Gallery Limerick Ireland, to Civic Arts Gallery Hengelo The Netherlands, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris France and Millennium Court Art Centre Portadown Northern Ireland. Her last major museum show was Crossing in 2006, curated by Patrick T. Murphy and presented in the RHA Gallagher Gallery Dublin (publication available).

The artist applies the idea of ‘The Moving Observer’ in her work, which Lakoff and Johnson have called the second major metaphor for time. Doing this leads us to think of time as locations in a landscape. As the observer ‘passes’ these locations so we are led to think of the observer’s motion as the ‘passage’ of time and of the distance between the observer and those locations in the landscape as the ‘amount’ of time ‘passed’" (Ciaran Benson, Crossing catalogue 2006). Images of roads, corridors, forests and other transitional places appear in her paintings and drawings as diagrams for journeying - referencing the temporal nature of contemporary life while questioning how the dual positions of home and displacement condition us as human beings.

Her work is represented in the collection of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, ABN AMRO Bank, Lease Plan Nederland NV, The Dublin Institute of Technology, The National Drawing Archive and Ulster Bank among others. The artist is a member of Aosdána and lectures in painting and fine art practice at the Dublin Institute of Technology where she also served as the Head of Fine Art from 2004-2006. She holds a Masters degree from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnheim and a BA degree from the Moller Insitute Tilburg in The Netherlands.

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