Born in Co.Cork in 1963, Walsh completed her Diploma in Fine Art at the Crawford School of Art and Design in 1985 and completed her MFA in sculpture at the University of Ulster in 1986.  Walsh’s many public artworks were often negotiated through the participation of various constituencies and communities through dialogue, participatory, and collaborative as well as educational practices. Her site - specific sculptural interventions interrogate queer,  intersectional feminist and national identity. Walsh is dedicated to connecting  the viewer’s experience by considering how to contextualise material form and space into a resonate environment. Walsh’s artwork is activated by a drive to explore persisting joy, survival and rebellion, playfully contesting established form and embedded lore. Themes of countercultural activism puncture and transform constricted orthodoxies and are generated through ‘othered’ dynamics of embodied experience and desire.

Her public artwork includes The Hybrid Loveseat (2008)  at James Street, Dublin, Circuit (2001) at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Sugar and Spice for South Dublin County Council (1999) Lucan, Dublin,  Diving Spectacle (1997) University of Limerick, Terminal 1 Pier 4a at Heathrow Airport, London (1994), Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker (1992) Great Victoria Street, Belfast.

Her work has been shown in IMMA,  Kilmainham Gaol, Temple Bar Gallery, Limerick City Gallery , Belltable Gallery, the Highlanes Gallery, the Crawford Gallery, Tate Liverpool. Street Level Gallery (Glasgow), Kunstlerhaus, Graz (Austria)  the Orchard Gallery and The Void Gallery (Derry) and the McMullen Museum of Art (Boston, USA).

She has taught and consulted extensively in Universities and Art Colleges in Ireland and the UK. Walsh’s work is in national collections such as IMMA and The Crawford Gallery. She lives on the border between Meath and Cavan.

To Fruit (and multiply) 2021 installation in situ at Ballina Arts Centre, Co.Mayo