Margaret Kilgallen

Margaret Kilgallen is a very well know artist who blended folk art with contemporary art. The major influences of her work are old signs and old folk culture. She was well know for her creation of signs which she made the old fashion way instead of using modern methods. Many of her pieces were created on found object and paper, such as books. She wall also well know for her graffiti with which she tagged under various names. Her artwork is very traditional in that it seems to focus on objects and pictures carefully made by hand. Calling her a purist would probably be going to far but her work seemed to emphasize the amount of effort it took to make old signs and pictures. It is this emphasis on the old that mad her work stand out. Looking at it now it looks like stuff made during the 1920's and 30's.