Education
National College of Art and Design, Ireland.
School of Art. Sligo R.T.C. Ireland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Artefacts Project Hunt Museum Limerick
2010 Selected Works - Axis Arts Centre Ballymun, Dublin
2008 Museum Pieces -Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin.
2007/08 The Artefacts Project - National Museum of Ireland (Collins Barracks) Dublin.
2005 Paintings/Drawings1980-1994 - Axis Arts Centre.Ballymun, Dublin,
Returning - OSB Gallery, Enniskerry. Wicklow.
2004 Symbolic Works - The Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2003 Paintings/Drawings - Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin.
2001 After America - Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin.
1994 Paradise lost (Touring)
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, England
Amtsgarden Gallery, Naestved, Denmark.
Mestske Muzeum, Jaromeri, Czech Republic.
1993 The Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1991 The Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1988 The Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1986 The Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1984 The Lincoln Gallery, Dublin
1982 The Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin.
Two Person Exhibitions
2004 Metatron Gallery Enniskerry – with Eamon Connors
1987 Galway City Arts Festival – with Shane Cullen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 An Lar, Luan Gallery Athlone
2022 Westmeath Artists Luan Gallery Athlone
2019 In Living Memory, Oliver Sears Gallery at Emo Court.
2019 / 2018 Boyle Arts Festival
2023/22/ 18/ 13 / 12 / 11 / 06 / 1985 / 84 / 83 / 81 / 80. RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2008 - 1999 Jorgensen Fine Art Dublin
1995 Portraits, Real and Imagined -Rubicon Gallery Dublin.
1993 Bloomsday 1993 -Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1992 Figurative Image -Bank of Ireland Headquarters,Dublin.
Claremorris Prizewinners - touring exhibition.
1991 Contemporary Irish Artists -Syracuse University.U.S.A.
Homeground -Mullingar Arts Centre, Westmeath.
The Mask Show -Rubicon Gallery Dublin.
Drawings, Five Artists -Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1990 Sense of Ireland Festival -London. U.K.
1989 La Revolution - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
1988 The Irish Sea - Greenpeace touring exhibition: Ireland,Wales,Scotland,England.
Art Advice - New York. U.S.A.
Art Works - Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1984 Self Portraits -Project Arts Centre,Dublin
1983 The Artist and the Bomb - Russian/Irish touring exhibition.
1982 Festival l’Orient, France - representing Ireland.
1982/84/86/91/92 Claremorris Open Exhibition, Mayo.
1982/85/86 Independent Artists, Dublin.
1979 Cross Section – Alliance Francaise, Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Art – Insurance Corporation of Ireland
1978 Six Painters- Alliance Francaise, Dublin.
1975 Project Interaction- Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Selected Bibliography
Dr Melanie Otto, School of English. Trinity College, Dublin: The word’s challenging opposite’: the visual language of Lorcan Walshe’s The Artefacts Project and Museum Pieces. published in the journal Word & Image. Taylor & Francis Online 2023
Dr. Raghnall Ó Floinn .National Museum of Ireland “Craftsmen and Patrons in Medieval Ireland: Metals in the Service of God” Catalogue essay The Artefacts Project
Dr.Eamonnn P. Kelly .National Museum of Ireland “ Bell, Book Shrine and Crozier: an archaeologist’s perspective on a series of drawings and paintings by Lorcan Walshe.” Catalogue essay The Artefacts Project
Mark Patrick Hederman “Leaden and Golden Echoes: Sacramentality in Art” Catalogue essay The Artefacts Project
Paradise Lost catalogue essay John M. Farrell 1994
Awards
1986 Arts Council Travel Award.
1991 Prizewinner Claremorris Open Exhibition.
1992 Prizewinner Claremorris Open Exhibition.
1995 European Commission Kaleidoscope Award.
British Arts And Business Award.
Cultural Relations Committee,
Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Award.
1996 Tyrone Guterie Centre, Ireland / Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Exchange USA
2021 Arts Council Agility Award
Selected Collections
Allied Irish Banks.
An Bord Gais.
Bank of Ireland.
Dublin City University.
Dublin V.E.C.
Foley Collection at IMMA
Irish Intercontinental Bank.
Irish Life Plc.
Jordan International.
Longford/Westmeath Library Committee.
Warrington Hospital, Warrington, England.
St. Vincents Hospital, Dublin.
Irish Medical Council
National Museum of Ireland.
National Self -Portrait Collection at the University Of Limerick.
The Office of Public Works.
Hunt Museum Limerick