Press
Review of Big Foot
Laura McGovern, Big Foot, Circa, Online uploaded 7March 2008, p3....There are two video installations on display, Joan Healy's Mass aerobics and Amy Walsh's Are we compiling a list of the next best flavours of the year? (Philippe Vergne in 'Ice Cream', Phaidon, 2007). Both are projected onto the wall as a 1ft x 1ft screen size, thus keeping to the dimensions of the other pieces at Big foot... Walsh's piece displays a phantasmagoria of colour that consists of an ice-cream sundae as it spins rapidly on a turntable...
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Review of Genius Loci Sense of Place
Dunne Aidan, The Distance Between Worlds, The Irish Times , Wednesday, December 12 , 2007, pp14.In Genius Loci, which closed yesterday at Monster Truck Gallery, Louise Ward and Amy Walsh offered complementary ways of exploring "a sense of place". Walsh showed extremely accomplished video pieces with related photographs, and Ward showed paintings made with boldness and sensitivity.
The video, Maximum 12 per Person , is an excerpt from the life of the Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan, where local residents and visitors queue to buy the bakery's celebrated cupcakes. There's something nice about the exaltation of these modest confections, which is surely as much about a social ritual as any intrinsic merit in the cakes, delicious as they might be. An episode of Seinfeld featured a comparable Manhattan phenomenon.
While Walsh highlights the communal in this piece, with Apartment Window she looks at another aspect of big-city life, with a nod to Hitchcock. Three video monitors present us, voyeuristically, with views into the illuminated spaces of three apartments as their occupants go about the routine business of living. Curiosity keeps you watching, and the experience echoes the sense of distance, separation and anonymity of urban living...
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Review of Graduate Exhibition
Dunne Aidan, Desress of Success at Graduate Exhibitions, The Irish Times , Friday, June 11 , 2004, pp14.... NCAD's media graduates have produced some adventurous and ambitious work... Amy Walsh abstracts linear contours from a dancing figure to make a three-dimensional piece...