Remote exhibition

Martin Walch

Losing the Plot – XYZ/T v15-220206

Martin was born in Hobart in 1964, and continues to live and work in Tasmania.

Martin was educated at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart, University of Tasmania attaining a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in Photography in 1994. He also completed a Master of Fine Arts by Research, in Digital Stereoscopic Photography and Landscape, in 1998. Walch is currently a part-time Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator at the Tasmanian School of Art while pursuing a PhD there. Walch has also established himself as Artist-in-Residence with Copper Mines of Tasmania at Mount Lyell, Western Tasmania. Awards and bursaries include: joint-winner Siglo magazine’s National Collaborations Prize for Writers and Photographers (with writer Lisa Morissett) 1997; New Media Fund Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts 1999; Arts Tasmania artist grants 1997 and 2000. Walch has recently completed his appointment to the Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Walch has participated in over 18 group exhibitions including: Photographica Australis Asia Tour, Naarden Photo Festival Nederlands, ARCO Madrid, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; SOFA, New York.

He is represented in public and private collections including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of South Australia.