The Artefacts Project — LORCAN WALSHE

The Artefacts Project

Lorcan Walshe’s involvement with the art of ancient Ireland began as a search for artistic roots…

Through his choice of subject matter Lorcan has raised a number of important issues that are of concern to the artist and art-historian alike. A search for roots is a starting point, that leads quickly to other issues such as the status of the art object, transference, empowerment, significance, identity, transcendence, relevance, patronage, and the relationship between the ancient and the modern.

Dr. Eamonn P. Kelly, Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland.

**Clonmacnoise Bell** & **Gartan Bell** each 76x76cm oil on canvas **The Artefacts Project** at The National Museum of Ireland 2007/8 and The Hunt Museum Limerick 2022

**Shrine of the Miosach** 168x183 cm oil on canvas (Hunt Museum Artefacts Project exhibition 2023)

Three 8th Century Bells pencils on Fabriano paper each 84x59cm (Artefacts Project at the Hunt Museum)

**Clonmacnoise Bell** 84x59cm pencils on paper

**Clonmacnoise Bell** 76x76cm oil in canvas

**River Lane Crozier** 84x59cm pencils on paper (collection Hunt Museum)

**Crozier Study** 84x59cm watercolour pencils on Fabriano paper private collection Ireland

**Crozier with Grey Background I** 168x106cm oil on canvas

**Shrine Of St.Patrick’s Tooth** 84x59cm Pencils on Fabriano paper

**Shrine of St.Patricks Tooth** (study) 42x33cm oil on panel

**Shrine Of St.Patrick’s Tooth** detail Pencils on Fabriano paper

**Shrine of St.Patrick’s Tooth** 152x112cm oil on canvas

**Tully Lough Cross II** 84x59cm pencils on paper

**Clonmacnoise Crozier Study** 84x59cm pencils on paper

**Crozier with Grey Background II** 168x106cm oil on canvas

Shrine Drawings - The Artefacts Project at the Hunt Museum

**The Mias Tighearnain** (detail) pencils on paper

**The Corp Naomh** (detail) pencils on paper

**Shrine of the Cathach** (detail) pencils on paper

**Shrine of the Miosach** (detail) pencils on paper

**Shrine of the Miosach** 24 x28 oil on copper

The Artefacts Project is an ongoing series of works that engage with Ireland's precolonial visual culture through the contemporary sensibility of painting and drawing. Specific exhibitions have resulted from this series: “The Artefacts Project” at the National Museum of Ireland 2007-2008, “Museum Pieces” at Jorgensen Fine Art (2008) “Selected Works” at Axis Arts Centre (2010) “The Artefacts Project” exhibition at the Hunt Museum (2022).

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