Louise Walsh

    CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION 

1985-1986   MA Fine Art University of Ulster.
1980-1985   Diploma in Fine Art, Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork.
   
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AND SITED PARTICIPATORY ARTWORKS

2006-2008   Public Artwork and installation commemorating Derry women shirt                             factory workers.
2006-2007   Emergency Department James Hospital. Per cent for art participatory                            project.
2004-2008   Boundry Sculpture at Luas Stop, James Hospital. 40 metre long art work,                      includes Bronze Sculptures done by Local teenagers on a linked project.
2005-2006   Rosslare; Wexford County Council percent for Art project; Participatory                         project with residents. Devised a mentored residency for NCAD graduate                     artists.
1998-2001   Integrated Public Artworks at the entrance of the Royal Victoria Hospital,
                    Belfast. A large scale installation which includes a moveable sculptural
                    element, a series of text works and a designed metal balcony.
2001            Sweets and Snails, A traffic calming sculptural installation. Bronze
                    sculptures and signs, in St Finian’s Housing Estate, Lucan, Co Dublin.
2000            Imagine, A stone sculpture made in consultation with local teenagers at
                    Black Lion Swimming Jetty, Co Cavan.
1996-1997   Sculptural installation at Kilmurray Village, Bronze, concrete and resin.                         University of Limerick. Installation in public walkway Pier 4A,Terminal 1.                     Light, duratrans and colour projection. Heathrow Airport, London.
1993            Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker, Cast bronze figures, two                         metres high. Great Victoria Street, Belfast.
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1997            Offering. Video and sculptural installation, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
1995            Sounding the Depths Phase Two (with Pauline Cummins),
                    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1993            Sounding the Depths (with Pauline Cummins), Kunstlerhaus, Graz,                             Austria.
                    Tate Gallery, Liverpool.
                    Street Level Photographic Gallery, Glasgow.
1992            Sounding the Depths. Collaborative installation in three parts(with Pauline
                    Cummins), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1991            Available Resources. Exhibition from a project with shirt factory workers
                    Orchard Gallery, Derry.
1990            Louise Walsh. Arts Council Gallery, Belfast.
1988            Solo Window Exhibition. Arts Council Gallery, Belfast.
1987            Otter Gallery, Belfast.

RESIDENCIES/COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2005- 2006  Art Project with Aged out Asylum seekers in conjunction with SPIRASI,    
                    CREATE and IMMA, Devised, initiated and ran the project. It is now  
                    developing into a broader based, client led, funded program.
2004-2006   Luas, St James Sculpture Workshops. Sculpture sessions with local
                    teenagers. Project design, co-ordination, networking and fund-raising.
1999-2000   Lough McNean Sculpture Trail Bellcoo, Co Fermanagh.
1998-1999   Viking Tribe After Schools Project Buckingham Street, Dublin. Funded by
                    the Arts Council of Ireland.
1998-1999   Worked with local groups and relatives of people who have died due to
                    heroin in Dublin’s inner city, as one of four shortlisted artists proposing an
                    artwork to highlight and comemmorate that loss. Run by the Firestation
                    Artists Studios.
1998            Artist in Residence WERRC Programme, University College Dublin.  
1996            Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Artists Work Programme.
1992            Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1991            Available Resources administered by the Orchard Gallery, Derry.
1988-1990   Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
1987            Foyle Arts Centre, Derry, administered by the Orchard Gallery, Derry.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2002-2008   Board member of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.                    2007-2008   Board member of Common Ground, an arts development organization                           based in the Canal Communities area of Dublin South West.    
2005-2008   Member of the Arts Advisory Group for SPIRASI. A group formed to lend                        expert knowledge and advice to progress the development of an arts                             program for clients of the Spirtitan Initiative for Refugees and Asylum                         Seekers in Ireland.
2005-2006   Public Art Consultant for South Dublin County Council.
2005-2006   Participating as a Mentor in the Mentoring Development Project. A                                 research study and pilot project funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2002-2006   Editorial Board of CONTEXTS. A journal on Arts and Practice in Ireland,
                    published by CREATE.

PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA 

2007            Reflecting on an Evolving Practice, Irish Feminist Review 2007.                                     Published by Women's Studies Centre, National University of Ireland,                             Galway. 16 page photo and text article on my art practice.                   2007            Summer by the Strand: Cois Mara Residents Make their Mark.                                       Publication celebrates the collaborative and mentoring Public Art Per Cent                      for Art project, funded by Wexford County Council.                                    2007            Work in progress. Chapter detailing project with young asylum seekers.                        Published by the National Youth Arts Program.                                         2006            Authored essay detailed Walsh’s Art project with young Asylum Seekers                        for ‘Work in Progress’, published by the National Youth Arts Program;                           Showcasing models of good practice, designed as a resource for Artists                         and Youth Workers working with young people on arts programs.
2006            Symposium Presentation/ Symposium Paper at the Educational Studies                         Association of Ireland National Conference in NCAD
2006            Publication of presentation. Learning Labs 01 Visual Arts in Youthwork.                         (pub; Irish Youthwork Press 2006).
2006            Presentation at ‘The Big Breakfast’, a forum of Youth Art projects in                             Dublin hosted by the City Arts Centre on the 12th June.                            2005            Dialogues: Women Artists From Ireland. Dedicated chapter. Katy                                 Deepwell. Published by IB Tauris: London: New York.