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Marianne Eigenheer

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I discovered this week that the great artist and my friend Marianne Eigenheer has passed away. Marianne has been a constant support in the work of Bury Art Museum since 2006. We met that year in Reykjavik at an Alan Johnson exhibition at Safn . We actually met at the exhibition, but it turned out when we started talking that her first encounter with me had been earlier. She was walking up the main street and passed my hotel. My first time in Iceland, I was wondering how warmly one needed to dress. The hotel room window only opened ajar, so I pushed my arm out to test the temperature and Marianne, below, was fascinated by this hand inexplicably waving in the air from an upstairs window. In Bury we have shown (and have in the permanent collection) her beautifully poetic line drawings, and her video-drawing “ Dancing Chairs and a Walking Woman ” originally in the Irony of Flatness in 2008 and again as part of the Foreigners exhibition last year. Marianne was endlessly w