- Samuel Walsh
Samuel Walsh was born in
London ,England to Irish parents, his mother from Limerick his father from Ennis. He was educated in London andLimerick . He lived in Limerick from 1968 to 1990 and he now lives and works in Co. Clare.He studied at the
Limerick School of Art & Design , Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick and the National College of Art & Design,Dublin .He is closely associated with the beginnings of the Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) and is founder of Quadrant, an annual exhibition for young artists held in the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick every December, initiated in 1993. In 1987 he founded the
National Collection of Contemporary Drawing that hangs in the Limerick City Gallery of Art.Walsh has dealt with a variety of subject matter usinmg an abstract visual language in his career ranging from the Stations of The Cross ('Fourteen Points of Entry', 1991, now in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin), the encroachment of and into an indivdual's personal space ('Ambit' paintings, 2001-2002), his father's wartime experiences ('Airborne Drawings' 2002), to his interpretations of ancient classical art motifs ('Frieze' paintings and drawings 2006-2007). In November 2007 a major body of work by the artist based on 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri opened at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. The Inferno section will travel to CIAC, Pont-Aven, Brittany, France in May 2008.
In 1997 he was elected a member of
Aosdána , a body set up by the Irish Government through the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon to recognise outstanding contributions by individuals to the creative arts in Ireland. He is a Fellow of theBallinglen Arts Foundation , Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.He has been selected for international artist residencies, most notably in Switzerland in 1990 and France in 1995 & 2002 and will take up a Josef & Anni Albers Foundation residency in New Haven CT, USA in Spring 2009.
He taught drawing at the
Limerick School of Art & Design from 1987 to 1997. In 2005 he was the Professor of Drawing for the Autumn semester at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, FRANCE. He has also been a visiting lecturer to this college and to the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and theBurren College of Art , Co. Clare. He will be a lecturer on the Drawing Studies course at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin in Spring 2008.ee also
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Aosdána
*External links
* [http://www.samuelwalsh.com Official site]
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