Zac Walsh
Walsh, Originally from Manchester. A student of John Moores Liverpool University and a graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, has had extensive exhibitions internationally with numerous solo shows at galleries including 101 Exhibit - Miami, I-nkd Gallery-Brighton, Signal Gallery-London and the James Freeman Gallery -London. He’s also exhibited in prestigious events such as the MTV European awards, G-40 summit - Washington (featured artist) and the Foundation for the care of victims of torture, Exhibiting alongside established names such as Bridget Riley, Ralph Steadman and Paula Rego. His paintings are in private collections with the Standard Chartered Bank Tokyo and London.
For six consecutive years, Walsh was selected by the critically acclaimed Holland Park Opera as their in-house artist. Resulting for Walsh in a firm collaborative exchange with one of the UK's finest and internationally acclaimed Opera Company’s. Walsh went on to be shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard self portrait painting prize, and was also nominated for the Prix Canson award in 2016.
While primarily gaining recognition as a figurative painter, over the last several years Walsh has also been developing his practice through abstraction. Drawn to the absolute freedom of mark and compositional experimentation, Walsh feels abstraction offers the true limitless potential not only for creative expression but to explore depths of the subconscious human condition.