Deirdre Walsh

Melbourne/Australia-based artist whose sculptural drawings have evolved from a lifetime dedicated to figurative sculpture.
Trained in sculpture at Monash University Melbourne, and then decades working primarily in bronze -creating intimate pieces and large scale installations.
Today the focus is on pen-and-ink sculptural drawings. These works carry a deep understanding of volume gesture and physical presence, that comes from years modelling in three dimensions. They are delicate, yet powerful, they explore the human figure, emotion, vulnerability and the uncanny with quiet intensity.
After years shaping form in three dimensions, freedom and precision is now found with ink on paper. The drawings invite slow looking, and emotional connection, in a fast moving world.

Monash University
Melbourne

Many solo and group exhibitions
2005 Contempora 2, Docklands, Victoria
Mont Martre Gallery France (drawings)
2004 Gallery NewQuay, Docklands, Victoria
2004 Gasworks Sculpture Lark, Port Melbourne Victoria.
2004 Toorak Village Festival, Toorak Victoria
QDOS Gallery Lorne Victoria
2003 Drawings and sculpture commissioned for Harding Solicitors, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
1998 Work commenced on the undertaking of a Scullture Park in Mount Macedon-“Trevethan”
1999 Melbourne Arts Club sculpture exhibition
1998 Delshan Gallery, High Street Armadale, Victoria
1996 Holdsworth Gallery Woollahra, Sydney New South Wales
1996 AFFA Gallery Bendigo, Victoria
1995 Australian Art Forms, Brighton Victoria
1995 Upstairs Gallery Cairns North Queensland
1994 Melbourne Fine Art gallery Melbourne Victoria
1994 Sculpture Exhipition (part of the International Development Programe) Jakarta, Indonesia
1993 Mornington Regional gallery
1992 Brisbane National Gallery Queensland
1991 Alchemy Gallery Prahran Victoria
1990 Westpac Gallery, Melbourne Vic
Portsea Gallery, Portsea Victoria