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Mary-Ruth WalshDublin born Mary-Ruth Walsh currently lives and works in Ireland.
EDUCATION:
2004 M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London. Exhibition: First Class Honours.
2001 B.A. in Painting and Art History, Joint Honours. National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
SELECTED GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
20011 Utopia Ltd, Ireland & UK group exhibition, co-curated D. Mabb& MR Walsh. Artists - Pil & Galia Kollectiv - Lizi Sanches - Brendan Earley - Blaise Drummond - David Mabb & Mary Ruth Walsh. Supported by Wexford Arts Centre & Wexford County Council (forthcoming)
2010-11 A Modest Proposal 2, St. Patricks Close, Dublin (forthcoming)
2010 Guild Art Gallery, New York Structures Within An Intervention, curated: Ciara Gilmartin & Leslie Rosa-Stumpf
2010 An Artists Impression, A Curated Publication for the Dock Discourse. Curator Aideen Barry & 126 Gallery, Galway
2010 Invited Éigse, Visual, Carlow, Ire
2009 when all through the house, parlour, New York,http://www.parlourdoor.com/
2009 The 2nd Annual 126 Members' Show, 126 Artists-Run Gallery, Galway , Ire.
2008 Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, MARK drawings & multiple: Shane Bradford, Amanda Coogan, Kris Emmerson, Damien Flood,Ida Mitrani, Clive Murphy, Caroline McCambridge, Mary Ruth Walsh http://www.oonaghyoung.com/
2008 Twosome Twiminds, Oonagh Young Gallery, James Joyce St., Dublin 1. Inaugural show with Shane Bradford (UK), Kris Emmerson (UK) and Mary-Ruth Walsh (Ire). http://www.oonaghyoung.com/
2008 Folkatronica, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.visualartists.ie/AP_previous_participants.html
2008 Healing Arts Trust, Waterford Regional Hospital, Ireland
2008 24-hour non-stop-art, Arts Council of Ireland Touring Experiment, Wexford Arts Centre.
2007 Still Life, Wexford Arts Centre; Programme, interview and panel discussion; chair Gemma Tipton,
review Circa 122. SOLO http://www.wexfordartscentre.ie/exhib/mrw/01.html2006 Seconds : : Multiples, The Imperfect Artwork, invited group show. Wexford, Ireland. Curated by - Aileen Lambert http://www.wexfordartscentre.ie/archivedec06.html
2006 Invited Éigse, Utopias. Curator, Cliodhna Shaffrey (catalogue) Copy of Irish Times review click here
2006 White Goods 3, Sligo Art Gallery. SOLO
2005 White Goods 1, Goethe Institute, Merion Square, Dublin. SOLO (catalogue) http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2005/maryruthwalsh/mrw.shtml
2005 White Goods 2, Iontas Award Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery. (catalogue) http://www.sligoartgallery.com/
2005 Iontas, Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery.
2005 Grace, invited group exhibition for Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre, Waterford. (catalogue)
2004 Goldsmiths College, London, UK. MA Show (catalogue)
2004 Goldsmiths College, London, UK. MA curators-on-going-show
2004 Icescream, Farringdon, London, invited group show.
2003 nth art, international group show, OLS&Co, Mountgrove Rd., London.
2003 Iontas, National Competition, Sligo Art Gallery. Toured Northren Ireland & Limerick.
2002 dedalus, curator; Pádraig Timoney, Context Gallery, Derry, Northren Ireland. Touring exhibition.
2001 A labyrinth in a Box, Aspen 5+6 1967; Box 2001, Patrick Ireland / Brian O’Doherty; Southampton College, New York
2001 National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Degree Show. (catalogue)
2000 Odyssey, Group Show, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin. (catalogue & co-coordinated show)
2000 A Modest Proposal 1, External façade National Archives Office, Dublin 8, Permanent Public Work
2000 A Modest Proposal 2, St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8.
1999 Sensationless, Group Show, Vicar St. Dublin.
1998 Absolute Secret, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin
AWARDS:
2011 Studio Award, Artists Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (forthcoming)
2009 Studio Residency, Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA
2009 Travel Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2009 Visual Arts Award, EVAA, Ire. short-listed
2008 Travel Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2008 Wexford County Council Art Collection, Ire. Open submission.
2008 Visual Arts Award, EVAA, Ire. short-listed
2006 Media Residency Award, Exercises in Folkatronica, Visual Artists Ire.
2005 Studio Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, short-listed
2004 Alsop Building Award, Goldsmiths College London, UK, short-listed
2004 Visual Art Bursary, Wexford County Council, Ire.
2003 Iontas Award, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland
2001 Travel Award (New York), Arts Council of Ireland
2001 Thesis award (1.1), National College of Art and Design, Ire.
PUBLISHED WRITINGS:
2009 Visual Artists Ireland, How is it Made? Interview with Fergus Byrne
2009 Dance Ireland, January issue, re-representation of the body
2007 Visual Artists Ireland, Exercises in Folkatronica, March 2007
2006 Irish Times: Patrick Ireland’s Cassa Dipinta, photographs for Wonder Walls, by Gemma Tipton.
2006 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane catalogue: Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: A Retrospective
2005 Context: Special theme - Art Work, (Volume 4 Issue.2.) Editor: Gemma Tipton
2003 “A labyrinth in a Box: Aspen 5+6”, Special Theme: Word and Image. CIRCA (issue 104) Editor: Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes.
2003 Ab Initio Diploma in Fine Art, document for Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC), Dept. of Education on behalf of Wexford School of Art, Wexford & Carlow Institutes of Technology.
2002 “A Labyrinth in a Box; Aspen 5+6”: Thoughtlines 6, Editor: Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes. Published by The National College of Art & Design, Dublin http://www.ncad.ie/faculties/visualculture/research/thoughtlines/mwalsh.shtml
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2007 Tipton, Gemma, CIRCA, Volume 122, Winter 2007, Still Life, p 72-3.http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2007/12/22/circa-issue-122-out-now/
2006 Dunne, Aidan; Irish Times; Imagining Utopia in Carlow; 14-06-2006 (copy of review click here)
2005 Exhibiting in Dublin - closed shop, open door or back alley? http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c113/p62_67.shtml
2005 Bennett, Rosie; essay and review on White Goods; CIRCA http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2005/maryruthwalsh/mrw.shtml
2005 Bennett, Rosie, catalogue publication, as above. Goethe Institution & Sligo Art Gallery
2004 Joyce in Art, The Lilliput Press Ltd., by Dr. Christa Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Ulster)
2000-2006 Catalogues, various
DISCUSSIONS
Visual Art at Lunchtime, Wexford / Talking Art, Community Group, Wexford / Public interview, Wexford / CREATE, http://www.create-ireland.ie/news/suburbs-and-cities-2.html /a>
/ Patrick Ireland Symposium, Trinity College Dublin / Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2011 Utopia Ltd. Irish & UK visual art exhibition. Artists: Blaize Drummond; Brendan Early; Pil & Galia Kollectiv; David Mabb; Lizi Sànches; Mary Ruth Walsh; Wexford Arts Centre.
2004 MA Show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK. Co-organised as a team of four, designed, financed and distributed catalogue, web site etc. Attendance: 5,000. (catalogue)
2000 Odyssey, Group Show, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin. Co-ordinated show (catalogue)
‘More specifically I’m interested in the way people inhabit space and how architecture inflects how people move and behave. Public architecture, often playing with historical references attempts (and often fails) to make that space “friendly” to people and the surrounding architecture, and to the city itself. My work demystifies the monumentality of architecture and relates to how art is shown in museums, and the current debates on the spectacularization of museum culture with the resultant immateriality of artworks. The way I’m using lens-based work, I think, articulates aspects of this debate. The presentation or mediation of objects through film reminds me how Le Corbusier used or, I should say, misused photography. He realized, as I had, the potency of lens-based presentation of his buildings, he, for promotional purposes, me, for a ‘double-take’ effect. Through photography he presented himself and his work implying an extensive built output. In fact he only built a handful of houses in his career as documented in Beatriz Colomina’s book on modern architecture as mass media. He even implied authorship of Eileen Gray’s famous E.1027 house. So, where Le Corbusier’s lens-based presentation created a myth, mine poses questions’.*
*This is an excerpt from an ongoing online interview with Rosie Bennett who teaches at Birkbeck College. Her research on minimalism is AHRC funded at UCL. She has written for Frieze, Circa, Object. She wrote the introduction to Richard Shiff’s, Doubt, Routledge, 2006. She is currently working on a book-length study on Robert Morris.