Kay Walsh
live/work UK/NZ
Contact
kaywalsh.24@googlemail.com
Education
1998-2000 MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London
1992-1995 BA 1st Class hons, Critical Fine Art Practice, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London
1989-1990 Foundation in Art and Design, Kingsway College, London
Research Projects
2016-18 ongoing Holnicote Estate/Shed Hunting researching modern day wilderness with National Trust Somerset
Festival Projects
Mute Swan video installation Supernormal Festival Oxfordshire August 2014
2015 Swan carving workshop Supernormal Festival 2014
Solo Shows
2010 When Times Slides By Slowly Sargeant Gallery Whanganui New Zealand
Residencies
2023 Joya AIR art+ecology residency Spain
Selected Shows/Video Work
2022 All His Rights screening RAMM Exeter until Jan 2023
2020 All His Rightsvideo screening and photographic series Stables in group show Beast OBS Gallery Tonbridge UK
2019 Blue Hills BAG Show Re- Exhitbition Southwark Park Galleries London
2018 Re-landscaping collage work BAG show Bermondsey London
2017 Inhabitants lightbox work Cafe Gallery London
2016 Decent of the Human Film screening Blue Hills,Mute Swan, Postcards from her livingroom floor Close Up Hoxton London
2016 Open Café Gallery Mute Swan Southwark Park London
2016 Bothy works Glaze My Cave Studio 1.1 Hoxton London
2015 Blue Hills video projection The Bright Field at OBS Gallery Tonbridge UK
2013 Studio 1.1 This Years Model London Postcards from her living room floor
2012 Studio 1.1 Cash Converters Night Caravan photographic work
2012 Braziers International Artists Project Supernormal Festival Performance event
Human Teesmade performance piece
2010 Peekaboo Alumni Braziers International Artist Workshop Oxfordshire UK
2010 When Time Slides by Slowly - Candy Twitcher, This Kind of Silence, Peekaboo Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui New Zealand
2005 Southern star, we three kings Have yourself Studio 1.1 Gallery Hoxton London
2005 One Day Sleigh selected by Arts&Business Tower Bridge, London
2005 One Day Ev+a Open curated by Dan Cameron, Limerick, Ireland
Artist Bio
Currently screening All His Rights 2019 at RAMM cafe gallery in Exeter until Jan 2023. Latest research project based in New Zealand When the Light comes in, a series of photographic images that depict the changing light in a vacant and now re occupied family home. Traces of past lives mix with the present creating a living document of a place changing through circumstance.
In my practice I use video, photography ,text and sound to draw attention to details within specific landscapes.
A desire to reconnect with nature and my shifting relationship to it, have led me to different parts of the UK from the Scottish Highlands
and more recently to the West Country.
Much of my work is a response to or counterpoint to living in the city, being led and held in a place.
To draw the viewer into a space of desire is central to the work. Slow movement, slow looking and slow thinking were part of the ongoing i
inquiry into nature, landscape and the stories that exist within these places.