Sarah Walker

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Sarah Walker is a painter living and working on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, where she also runs her own gallery. Originally from Dublin, she studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design before establishing her practice in the West.

 

Walker has held several significant group and solo exhibitions in London and Dublin with Oliver Sears Gallery, including The Boxing Diaries (2015), which explored her sons' engagement with the sport; Tree Drawings on the Sky (2018); and Walter Leonard Cole, 3 Mountjoy Square (2021).

 

Throughout her career, she has exhibited in numerous prestigious shows across Ireland, including EV+A, the RHA Annual Exhibition, and the Victor Treacy Award Exhibition. Internationally, she has represented Ireland at the Festivale de la Peinture in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France; held two solo exhibitions with Galerie Orange in Helsingør, Denmark; and exhibited at Boston University, USA, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Next month, she will take part in an exhibition of Irish artists at Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany.

 

Notable exhibitions include a 10-year retrospective at the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen and participation in the "C2" contemporary art exhibition at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork. She was also featured in ‘And The Women Voted’ (Women Artists from the AIB Art Collection) at the DLR Lexicon Gallery. In 2023, she participated in ‘The Art of Sport’ at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, and held a solo show at the inaugural Bere Island Arts Festival. 

 

In addition to her studio practice, Walker runs a series of exhibitions in her own gallery, project space in Castletownbere, Co. Cork.

 

Her latest journey brings us to South America. Sarah’s newest body of work, opening tomorrow evening, is the result of a residency in Valparaíso, Chile in February 2025.