Samuel Walsh

Who is Samuel Walsh?

Samuel Walsh was born in London, England to Irish parents in 1951; his mother from Limerick and his father from Ennis, Co. Clare. He was educated in London and Limerick. He lived in Limerick from 1968 to 1990 and he now lives and works in Co. Clare.

After moving from London, he was educated at Villiers Secondary School, where he sat the Irish Leaving Certificate. He has stated that he struggled academically and did not receive good marks.. After finishing secondary school, he studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick and the National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

He is closely associated with the beginnings of the Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art. In 1987 he founded the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing that hangs in the Limerick City Gallery of Art.

His first one-person show was in Limerick in 1978 and since then he has held one-person shows in Cork, Carlow, Ennis, and Dublin with the Oliver Dowling Gallery, the Rubicon Gallery and Hillsboro Fine Art, and one-person shows in Switzerland and France.