Niall Walsh

Niall Walsh was born in Dublin in 1963. He works and lives in Manorhamilton North Leitrim and is a long-time associate of the Sculpture Centre. Walsh completed an M.A. in fine art at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and has had solo exhibitions in The Dock in Leitrim 2007, the Higher Bridges gallery in Enniskillen in 2006, the Model in Sligo in 2004, and Lithuania 1999. His group shows include, Alter-native at Boyle arts week in 2010, The Blue Wall Gallery also in 2010 and The Lab, Dublin 2009.

Walsh’s international projects include the Jardin des esculptures in Mexico , Quebec, Canada, and SanFransico U.S.A. and he has participated in various sculpture symposia in India, Korea, Poland, Germany, Netherlands and Ireland. He has completed numerous public Commissions in a variety of contexts throughout the island of Ireland including a recent work for a sculpture symposium near Dusseldorf in Germany concerned with environmental issues. His work is included in private and public collections including the Lalit Kala Akadamie India, the U.K. National Trust, the Arts Council of Ireland and the Artist’s Museum, Lodz, Poland.

Walsh is currently working on a public art-work for the new hospital in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland due for completion in May 2012 and he will be exhibiting at Wex Art, a new visual arts space in Wexford in April 2012.