Collection of Contained Boxes

Shaped by several early residencies including Scotland’s Cove Park and another at the Wedgwood factory, Walsh’s privileged access to master craftsmen and historical archives has enriched her work. Based in Edinburgh, her pieces have been purchased for public collections such as the V&A Museum and shortlisted for a litany of awards.
A sequential three-piece exploration of the box and vessel form, Walsh pours ideas pertaining to care, preciousness and value into her meticulous process. Carved by hand in plaster, remade in wax, and cast in glass, each piece contains twelve fine coats of precious metal paste, fired in the kiln and burnished to bring out the interior’s quiet glow. The three intricately-layered glass vitrines —and the months-long effort to produce them— suggest an object’s strength goes much deeper than a protective patina.