Tipperary woman launches new exhibition, A Mind’s Eye, in Cahir Arts

Anne Martin Walsh’s three months residency in Cahir Arts gave her the opportunity to bring together a very varied and complete body of work inspired by and related to her native Tipperary in the newly launched A Mind’s Eye exhibition.

The exhibition opened last Friday in Cahir Arts and local inspirations for Annes work include the Swiss walk from Cahir Castle to the Swiss Cottage and the Swiss Cottage interior/wall paper,  Scarragh Woods Megalithic Tomb, The Hill of Bones in Moyglass, St Patrick’s Well, Clonmel and the sources of Tipperary rivers.

Cahir Arts is thankful of the support of Tipperary Arts Office and especially Arts Officer Melanie Scott in facilitating Anne Martin Walsh’s productive residency.

Anne Martin Walsh is a Tipperary born artist now living and working in Wexford. She completed a Masters in Fine Art, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, January, 2019, and a BA Hons (First class) in Art from the SETU Wexford Campus School of Art & Design in 2017.

Her practice revolves around painting, photography and printmaking, sometimes installed in combination with sculptural elements. Central to this work are themes of sexual and cultural identity that relate to our natural environment and reference a range of topics taken from history and mythology.

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Anne is interested in the layering of paint and different forms of mark-making. Through her artwork she endeavours to create an alternative way of seeing; a physical and spiritual connection to the earth. Anne Martin Walsh was awarded The Living Arts Project Residency with WAC & WCC in 2017 and 2019.

She was awarded an Art Links Bursary by Wexford County Council Arts Department in 2020 and 2022. Awarded also in 2022, the Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Cahir Arts Studio Residency by Tipperary Arts Office and Cahir Arts.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Solo shows include; My Bones are Creaking Hawthorn (2022), NATURE COLLATED (2021), and, VIBRATION: Embracing a Higher Connection to Our Planet (2020).

A Mind’s Eye Exhibition will continue until March 14, 2023.

Anne’s prints, paintings and mixed media compositions are all on view at Cahir Arts and well worth a visit.