Berry Dress

The Berry Dress is a 1994 mixed media sculpture by Alice Maher.

[1] It represents a young girl's dress painted dark pink, that stands alone on a shelf.

The bottom part of the dress just under the yoke is decorated with rose hips, or berries.

The dress was created in 1994 and the berries were originally round and a blood red color but have dried into a shriveled brown crust.

Alice Maher's work often incorporates natural materials and this dress can be seen as a pendant of a similar girl's dress presented on a shelf covered in mummified honeybees.