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Séamus McCormack
Artist CV
mccormack.seamus [at] gmail.com
Education
2010 – 2012 MA Fine Art – Sculpture, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
2002 – 2006 BA Hons. Degree, Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology - First Class Honours (1:1)
2006 – 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Arts Education, Limerick School of Art & Design – Second Class Honours – Upper (2:1)
Solo Exhibitions
November 2010 - Treading the boards....., Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo
April 2008 - I'm Crying & Everything, Signal Arts Centre, Bray
Selected Group Exhibitions
May 2011 MFA Interim Exhibition, Various Venues, Francis St., Dublin
May 2011 Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece – Video Screening
April 2011 Contemporary Art & The Moving Image, Queens Film Theatre, Belfast – Video Screening
Jan 2011 MFA Sculpture, Basic Space, Dublin
Jan 2011 The Potential of Vacancy, Live @8 Galway, Curator: Sinead McCann
Dec 2010 The End of Shadows, Sycamore Arts Club, Dublin Nov 2010 To Come So Far for Beauty, Block T, Smithfield, Curator: Deirdre Morrissey Nov 2010 Made on Monday, The Complex, Smithfield Sept 2010 Claremorris Open, Mayo (Award Winner) May 2010 The Potential of Vacancy, Dun Laoighre, Curator: Sinead McCann March 2010 Askew in The Garden of Desire, The Castle, Commercial Road, London Nov 2009 Hoverville, Sycamore Arts Club, Dublin June 2009 Éigse, Carlow Arts Festival. Curator: Marie Hanlon. Feb 2009 Symmetry, Black Church Print Gallery, Dublin. Curators: Rhona Byrne & Oran Day Nov 2008 Live at No.8, Tulca, Galway. Sept 2008 Made on Monday, Broadstone XL, Dublin Curators: Maeve Butler & Georgie Thompson June 2008 Éigse, Carlow Arts Festival. Curator: Patrick Murphy. June 2008 My Space - Breaking Ground, Axis Centre, Ballymun March 2007 Emerging Artist Awards, Mullingar Arts Centre. Feb 2007 Exordia, Ritz Gallery, Mullingar. Oct 2006 RDS Travelling Exhibition, Main Guard Arts Centre, Tipperary. Sept 2006 RDS Travelling Exhibition, Island Arts Centre, Antrim. Sept 2006 Emerging Artist Show, Mullingar Arts Centre. Aug 2006 Being & Becoming, Stone Gallery, Dublin. Curator: Cleo Fagan. July 2006 RDS Student Exhibition, RDS Dublin. June 2006 DIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Portland Row Studios. Jan 2006 Annual Student Show, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast.
Awards/Grants
Claremorris Open Award 2010
Artist Bursary 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Westmeath County Council
Best Fine Art Student 2006, Dublin Institute of Technology
Gold Medal, Academic Excellence Award 2006, Faculty Applied Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology
Emerging Artist Award 2006, Westmeath County Council
Bibliography/Reviews
Claremorris 2010 Catalogue
RDS Student Exhibition Catalogue
Circa Online
Arts Employment
April 09 - Oct 10 - Assistant Curator, Collection, IMMA
April 08 - Jan 09 - Assistant Curator: Education & Community Programmes, IMMA
Nov 07 - Current - Information Mediator, IMMA
Projects/Groups
Arts in Context, Larkin Adult Education Centre
Spirit of Place, Mayo, Collaboration DIT – Sculpture Students & Catholic University of America Architecture Students
Assistant Artist, Site-ations International, Model & Niland Gallery Sligo