Education
National College of Art and Design and School of Art. Sligo R.T.C.
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,
2005 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
1984 The Lincoln Gallery, Dublin
1982 The Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin.
Two Person Exhibitions
2004 Metatron Gallery Enniskerry – with Eamon Connors
1987 The Hendricks Gallery, Dublin – with Shane Cullen
1987 Galway City Arts Festival – with Shane Cullen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025/24//23/19/18 Boyle Arts Festival
2023/22/ 18/ 13 / 12 / 11 / 06 / 1985 / 84 / 83 / 81 / 80. RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2019 In Living Memory, Oliver Sears Gallery at Emo Court.
1999 - 2008 Jorgensen Fine Art Dublin
1997 Skin Deep- Rubicon Gallery Dublin
1991 Contemporary Irish Artists -Syracuse University.U.S.A.
1990 Sense of Ireland Festival -London. U.K.
1989 La Revolution - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
1988 The Irish Sea - Greenpeace touring exhibition: Ireland, Wales, Scotland.
Art Advice - New York. U.S.A.
1987 The Artist and the Bomb - Russian/Irish touring exhibition.
1982 Festival l’Orient, France - representing Ireland.
1982/85/86 Independent Artists, Dublin.
1979 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: Returning the Colonial Gaze: A Close
Reading of Lorcan Walshe’s Painting Shaman. New Hibernia Review 2025.
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
Sile Connaughton-Deeny Catalogue essay Museum Pieces
Paradise Lost catalogue essay John M. Farrell
Selected Awards
European Commission Kaleidoscope Award.
British Arts And Business Award.
Cultural Relations Committee,
Irish Department of Foreign Affairs 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