Somerset House Studios: Jennifer Walshe

In 2015, she launched a project crowd sourcing internet based sound with the musician Holly Herndon, and her visual work has been exhibited in the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Project Arts Centre, Dublin and the ICA. Her most recent project, the ongoing Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde, has seen the creation of a fictional history of the musical avant-garde in Ireland, receiving tremendous coverage in press and social media including features on Arena/ RTE1, The Wire Magazine and The Quietus.

Jennifer's music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She's been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. Jennifer has a doctoral degree in composition graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, and she is currently Reader in Music at Brunel University, London.

As an Associate of Somerset House Studios, Jennifer presented a monthly salon for the Somerset House Studios live programme exploring post digital music/sound art.