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EIMEAR WALSHE

b. 1992, Ireland
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Eimear Walshe Biography

Eimear Walshe is an artist from Longford, Ireland. Their work traces the legacy of late 19th-century land contestation in Ireland through private property, sexual conservatism, and the built environment. They travel across the island of Ireland, screening, reading, and performing their work.

They have recently exhibited with Van Abbemuseum, EVA International, the National Sculpture Factory, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, with work held in the collections of the Arts Council and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Speaking about their work in general, Walshe explains: ‘I’m very interested in what’s called local history, or even family history, or queer history. But the more you look at it you realise that all history is local history. All history is family history.... The other thing with history, coming from a queer perspective, is there’s always the notion in the back of your mind about erasure — like what gets left behind in the moment, and what gets abandoned in the future; what stories get let go of and can never be told.’

Text courtesy Ireland at Venice

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Eimear Walshe, The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex? (2020) (still). Single-channel video. 38 mins. Courtesy the artist and Arts Council Collection/Bailiúchán an Chomhairle Ealaíon.
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Eimear Walshe, The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex? (2020). Exhibition view: 39th EVA International, Limerick (18 September–15 November 2020). Courtesy the artist and Arts Council Collection/Bailiúchán an Chomhairle Ealaíon.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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Eimear Walshe, TRADE SCHOOL (2021) (video still). Courtesy the artist.
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Eimear Walshe, TRADE SCHOOL (2021) (video still). Courtesy the artist.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND (2023) (production still). Courtesy the artist and Ireland at Venice. Photo: Faolán Carey.
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