Mark Walsh is a lens-based artist living in Ireland. He is a member of Interface Inagh and the VAI.
In 2019 Mark started street photography. This was the hook that brought him back to making art after a long break. His work has been exhibited and printed in Exhibitions and Art publications at home and abroad.
Mark is currently working on a project titled “Requiem for a River”. It is a photographic response to pollution due to the leaching of phosphorus and nitrogen into Ireland's rivers, lakes and estuaries. This directly results from the dramatic increase of the beef and dairy herd in Ireland since 2010. Images from “Requiem” have been exhibited in "71% - The State of Water" as part of the Trieste Photo Days Festival and will be published in the photobook of the same title.
Mark is also working on a photobook. The working title is "Towards an empty sea". It chronicles dark beginnings, metamorphosis and a night flight down a polluted river towards an empty sea.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Red" Photography Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Negri Fokionos 55, Athina 11361, Greece
2024 Art sale in support of Gazan Family, Nun's Island, Galway
2024 Dublin Street Photography Festival, “Irish Wall” selected exhibition, Charlemont Square, Dublin, Ireland
2024 “BW Athens Photography Festival”, Serafio City of Athens, Athens, Greece.
2023 “Small things like these”, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Cork
2023 “Postcards for Gaza”, Engage Art Studio, Churchfields, Lower Salthill, Galway
2023 “HALFTONE Print Fair 2023”, The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin
2023 “In-Between Moments”, Praxis Gallery, 2136 Ford Parkway PMB 215, St Paul, MN 55116, United States
2023 "The Gothic Interior", Soul Noir Festival, Irish Architectural Archive, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland
2023 "Darkness", Decode Gallery, 320 S Convent Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701, United States
2023 “Nightflowers” Installation by Claire Louise Bennett, video by Mark Walsh, Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2023 "Commuovere", Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival, Open Submission Exhibition, Birr, Ireland
2023 Chania International Photo Festival, Selected Exhibition, Street Photography, Grand Arsenali, Chania, Crete, Greece
2023 Urban Photography Festival, “Urban Photography: Trieste and Cities from the World”, Mercato Coperto, Via Giosuè Carducci, 36 Trieste, Italy
2023 "71% - The State of Water", Selected Exhibition, Trieste Photo Days, "U. Veruda" Hall, Trieste, Italy
2023 “Art Enriches Life”, The Narrow Space Gallery,14 Mitchel Street, Clonmel, Ireland.
2022 The Summer Open, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Ireland
2020 Trasna 8, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Ireland
2020 Westival, Westport Music and Arts Festival, Ireland
2020 Narrating the New Normal, Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, Ireland
COMPETITIONS
2022 Lensculture Black & White Photography Awards – Critics Choice
2022 Lensculture Street Photography Awards – Critics Choice
2022 The Independent Photographer, Street Photography Competition – Editors Picks
2022 DPSP Rainshot Awards – 1st Place Winner
2021 DPSP Street Photo book of Street Photography Awards– Selected
PUBLICATIONS
Kinfolk, Issue #51, Portrait of Claire-Louise Bennett, 2024
Myth and Lore, Issue 7, "Witches, Warnings and Widdershins", 2023
8th 35awards Digital Catalogue, Cover Image, 2023 (digital)
"71% - The State of Water", Trieste Photo Days Festival Photobook, October 2023
Divide Magazine, Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 5, Bio And images, (Print and online), March 2023
Street Photography Magazine, September 2022, (online)
Lens Magazine, Urban & Street, Issue 95, Cover and feature, August 2022
"Pond" by Claire Louise Bennett, German edition (Teich), Cover Image, 2022
Docu Magazine, Vol 3, Issue 7, A Print Publication, July 2022
F-Stop Magazine, Issue #113, June - July 2022, (online)
DPSP Street Photobook of Street Photography Awards, 2021
An Capall Dorcha, Issue 6, 2021
F/8 Street Photography Magazine, Issue 6, 2021
Fisheye Photo Review2020-21, (online)
Sonazine, 2021
MARK WALSH
LENS BASED ARTIST
The Dying Zone