Roxy Walsh
Staff details
Roxy Walsh is an artist working with paint and words.
Roxy Walsh is an artist and a writer moving from a painting practice engaged with fiction and biography towards autofiction and ekphrasis.
The work, whether watercolour or text, uses figurative, symbolic, and abstract means. The more recent work in painting is architectural and abstract: concerned with materiality more urgently than with content. The writing reverses that priority whilst remaining deeply engaged with visuality and feeling. Dependent Rational Animals was a collaborative project with Sally Underwood, a sculptor based in Berlin.
I have worked as a studio tutor (0.5) on the BA Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths since 2008. Since 2021 I have been co-programme leader for the Fine Art element of the course (0.75). Teaching and admin days are Wednesday to Friday.
I have supervised two PhDs to completion (listed below), both of which have been a pleasure.
Academic qualifications
- MA Creative Writing, Birkbeck 2022
- MA Fine Art, Manchester Polytechnic 1986
- BA Fine Art (Painting) Manchester Polytechnic 1985
Teaching and supervision
Katharina Ludvig
The Hole: Notes toward an insurrectionary poetics of the wounded text (submitted 9/23)
Francisco Sousa Lobo
Crisis of Meaning, Crisis of Form, (2016)
Featured publications
Infallible, In Search of the Real George Eliot
Book
The Signature Quilt
Installation / Publication
Publications and research outputs
Show/Exhibition
Walsh, Roxy and Underwood, Sally. 2015. Outwith. In: "Without", Art Exchange, University of Essex, United Kingdom, January - February 2015.
Walsh, Roxy and Underwood, Sally. 2015. Without. In: "Without", Chandelier Projects, April - May 2015.
Walsh, Roxy. 2012. Roxy Walsh: The Lady Watercolourist. In: "The Lady Watercolourist", The MAC Belfast, United Kingdom, 14/09/12 - 13/10/12.
Exhibition Catalogue
Walsh, Roxy; Currier, Janet; Hodge, Nicky and Millar, Jane. 2020. Fuzzy Objects: Amitié.
Walsh, Roxy. 2005. Sense of Place.
Walsh, Roxy. 2005. Catrin Huber Catalogue essay.
Artist's Book
Walsh, Roxy; Underwood, Sally; Enright, Anne; Moore, Sanna and Tuomivaara, Jakko. 2013. Dependent Rational Animals [Catalogue].
Art Object
Walsh, Roxy and Underwood, Sally. 2014. Annunciation.
Walsh, Roxy and Underwood, Sally. 2013. Dependent Rational Animals.
Walsh, Roxy. 2005. The Signature Quilt.
Article
Walsh, Roxy. 1994. R.S.V.P.Drawings of Daphne, 10 block-printed hand-finished cards.
Book
Walsh, Roxy. 2005. Infallible, In Search of the Real George Eliot. ARTicle Press. ISBN 978-1873352830
Walsh, Roxy. 1997. Better After Death Catalogue. Wild Pansy Press. ISBN 978-1900687058
Walsh, Roxy and Ostrow, Saul. 1996. Wish You Were Beautiful Catalogue. Wild Pansy Press. ISBN 978-1900687010
Book Section
Walsh, Roxy. 2005. The Signature Quilt. In: , ed. Towards Understanding Community: People and Places. AIAA. ISBN 978-0230542648
Walsh, Roxy. 2002. Illustrated discussion. In: , ed. SPEAKING AND LISTENING. , pp. 104-114 ISBN 978-0863399862
Walsh, Roxy. 1996. Speak To You Later Catalogue. In: , ed. Speak To You Later Catalogue.
Edited Book
Walsh, Roxy, ed. 2006. Felix Culpa Solo Catalogue. ISBN 978-1873352540
Printed Ephemera
Hodge, Nicky and Walsh, Roxy. 2021. Nicky Hodge, Horse Gossip.
Professional Activity
Walsh, Roxy. External examiner for MA Painting, Royal College of Art.
Project
Walsh, Roxy. 2003 - 2005 Infallible, In Search of the Real George Eliot.