Ciarán Walsh was born in Carlow, Ireland (1980) and received an MA in 'Art in the Contemporary World' from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2007) and an earlier BA in 'Fine Art' from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire (2003). Since 2003 he has exhibited at various galleries and art-spaces in Ireland. Additionally he has developed a number of curatorial commissions and self-initiated projects. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Walsh's work intermixes sculpture, video, drawings, texts and digital prints in both singular works and in conversational installations and stagings. Drawing upon on a range of reference material including historical sources, science-fiction film and marginal knowledge, the artist considers the problematic agencies wthin surfaces, subjectivity, fakery and performance. Throughout the work, there is a strong centrality of the bodily and of the hand-rendered, alongside a conscious reliance on economical materials, minimally framed scenarios, casual methods of fabrication and production, with an emphasis on the actions and movements of modelling, staging, enacting and re-configuring.
Email: w.ciaran(at)gmail.com
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Selected CV (2006-2011)
Solo Exhibtions /
2011
2009
2008
2006
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this brief visual pattern, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Conduit and Iris Stream, VISUAL, Carlow
Samizdat, Unit H, Dublin
Archipelago and Other Stories, Four, Dublin |
Group Exhibitions /
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
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Instantaneous Personal Magnetism, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
Surface and Reality, Kilkenny Arts Week, Kilkenny
Aion Experiments, Project Arts, Dublin
The Bridge, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon
Menschheit, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
Hinterlands, Broadstone, Dublin
Installation Space, Hotel Ballymun Project, Dublin
The Power of a Negative Remains Between Us, thisisnotashop,Dublin
Conspirators of Pleasure, Blackchurch, Dublin |
Other Projects /
no one can arrive in the past, before they depart from the future, publication, Pallas Projects (2011)
The Reading Room, artists' book and published-project archive, Berlin (2010- ) [collaborative project]
Travelogue, contributor art-zine, Berlin (2007-10)
Border Cities, invited research programme, BAUHAUS Foundation, Dessau (2007-8)
Sweet Futures, public art curatorial commission (selected artist: Sarah Browne), Carlow (2007)
Hedgeschool, public art curatorial commission (selected artist: Glenn Loughran), Carlow (2006)
Selected Bibliography /
Dunne,
Aidan, Conduit Mysteries,
VISUAL Inaugural Exhibition Catalogue, January 2010
Moore,
Padraic E., Menschheit,
in Mother’s
Annual 2008, December
2008
Leahy,
Billy, The Reality of
Fantasy Island, Village
Magazine, 07 September 2006
Bursaries /
Ciarán Walsh would like to acknowledge the assistance of an Visual Arts Bursary Award from the Arts Council
of Ireland (2010/11), and annual Artist's Bursaries from Carlow County Council, Ireland (2006-10) in the
production of his artwork in these periods.
 
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