Samuel Walsh
Samuel Walsh was born in 1951. He studied at Limerick School of Art, Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick; and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He is in the words of Róisin Kennedy of the National Gallery of Ireland: ‘…one of the country’s leading exponents of abstract art…’
He has had many one-man exhibitions in Ireland, the most recent at the Ashford Gallery and Hillsboro Fine Art, both in Dublin in 2007. In November 2007, Walsh showed a major body of work based on Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy at the Limerick City Gallery of Art part of which will travel to France in 2008. He has shown his work in numerous Irish group shows. He has also had one-man shows in Switzerland and France. His work has been exhibited in England, Slovenia, France, Germany, Hungary, USA, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Canada, China, Singapore, Italy, Slovakia, Australia, and the Czech Republic.
He is one of Ireland’s leading draughtsmen and his drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Work by him has been acquired by national collections in England, Switzerland, Hungary, Croatia, and France and his work is in many public collections in Ireland.
He has been invited to take up an artists’ residency at the Anni & Josef Albers Foundation in the USA in the near future. He is the founder of the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick. He lives in Co. Clare where he also has his studio.
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