SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 "Raintown", Street Photography Solo Exhibition, Town Hall Gallery, Galway, Ireland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Tsundoku Art Book Fair, International Centre for the Image, Dublin.

2026 “Surreal”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 279-281 High Street, Glasgow, 5th - 28th February

2025 DABF2025, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 4–14 December

2025 Urban Exhibits: Unveiling the city, Trieste Photo Days 2025, Aqvedotto | Viale XX Settembre 37/c - Trieste, Italy, 10 October - 30 November

2025 "Ethereal", Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 279-281 High Street, Glasgow, 3rd - 31st October

2025 CHGS Summer open 2025, The Courthouse Gallery Studios, Ennistymon, Co Clare, Ireland, July - August

2024 "Red" Photography Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Negri Fokionos 55, Athina 11361, Greece

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 “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

PUBLICATIONS

2026 Surreal Exhibition Catalogue, Glasgow Dallery of Photography

2025 Ethereal Exhibition Catalogue, Glasgow Dallery of Photography

2025 "Towards an empty sea", Self published zine, Edition 50

2024 Kinfolk, Issue #51, Portrait of Claire-Louise Bennett,

2023 Myth and Lore, Issue 7, "Witches, Warnings and Widdershins"

2023 8th 35awards Digital Catalogue, Cover Image, (digital)

2023 "71% - The State of Water", Trieste Photo Days Festival Photobook

2023 Divide Magazine, Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 5, Bio And images, (Print and online), March

2022 Street Photography Magazine, (online)

2022 Lens Magazine, Urban & Street, Issue 95, Cover and feature, August 2022

2022 "Pond" by Claire Louise Bennett, German edition (Teich), Cover Image, 2022

2022 Docu Magazine, Vol 3, Issue 7, A Print Publication, July 2022

2022 F-Stop Magazine, Issue #113, June - July 2022, (online)

2021 DPSP Street Photobook of Street Photography Awards

2021 An Capall Dorcha, Issue 6

2021 F/8 Street Photography Magazine, Issue 6

2020-21 Fisheye Photo Review2020-21, (online)

Mark Walsh is a lens-based artist living in Galway, Ireland. He is a member of the VAI and Interface Inagh. He predominantly works in black and white in digital and film photography.

His photographic work started in 2020 with a street photography project called “Raintown” which was recently exhibited in Galway and was described by Lens based artist and lecturer, Ruby Wallis, “it reveals the gritty reality of life here, a place where people live, work, travel, and exist in a state of economic precarity”. Mark “walks through the city like a dual poet and a detective, uncovering a myriad of existential, surreal, and Gothic elements in everyday life. Like the best photography, it’s back to the artist's psyche from which these images come.”

In 2025, Mark self published a limited edition zine titled, “Towards an empty sea”.

“Towards an empty sea” is a macabre tale of dark origins, metamorphosis, and a eery nightmare escape down a dying river towards an empty sea and nothingness. The publication was part of the Dublin Artbook Fair 2025 and the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, 2026, at , The International Centre for the Image, Dublin.

Mark is currently working on a zine with the working title “I nearly married a human”. It is a Sci-Fi tale of invasion, colonization, attraction and control.

MARK WALSH
LENS BASED ARTIST