In
2004 she graduated from RMIT University, Melbourne with a Master
of Fine Arts and lectures at Site: International Unit for Public
Art at RMIT University. She has presented papers and published in
journals and on line on global art/space issues. In 2005 she commences
a PhD at the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Melbourne.
Images
above
sighted in shanghai 2005,
Exhibited in Wandering Between the Worlds, the Künstlerhaus,
Vienna.
Coming Up 2006
Beijing – Residency August 2006.
Vienna – Global fusion Close Up exhibition
at Palais Porcia, Vienna, September/October 2006.
Solo exhibitions
2004
sighted in shanghai.
Metrolite public posters in urbanart city transport shelters, Melbourne.
This body of work is McCormick’s Melbourne Response to the
urbanart project melbourneconnectionasia 2003/2004.
2000
the taste of red. Photo/text installation. Mass
Gallery, Melbourne.
1997
art/ectural. Photo/text installation. West Space,
Melbourne.
1996
http://www.in.form/ed/. Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne.
Curated exhibitions
2005
Artists Curate Artists - My Space. b a s e m e n t, Vienna.
24 May to 9 June. Curator Claudia-Maria Luenig.
Wandering Between the Worlds - 10 Artists Between Austria
and Australia. Künstlerhaus,
Vienna. 17 June to 17 July. Curator Elisabeth Wiessensteiner.
2004
Siemens Fine Art Scholarships 2004 selected exhibition,
RMIT Gallery at Storey Hall, Melbourne.
2004 Graduates Exhibition selected exhibition,
Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne.
Egremont: A Show in a Suitcase. Galerie Arcade,
Vienna. Curator Elisabeth Wiessensteiner.
Nü
Horizons Australian national tour. Perc Tucker Regional
Gallery, Townsville. Curator Elizabeth James.
2003
Nü Horizons, response to China. Australian
national tour. Manningham Gallery, Melbourne and Tin Sheds, Sydney.
Curator Elizabeth James.
Strategic (Re)Placement, Soho in Ottakring, Vienna.
Curator Claudia-Maria Luenig.
2002
Nü Horizons - Australian Women Artists in China.
Hangzou Academy of Fine Art and Donghua University Shanghai, China.
Curator Elizabeth James. Funded by Arts Victoria.
2001
Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse. Travelling group
exhibition opening at Bendigo Regional Gallery and travelling to
Monash Regional Gallery, Ararat Regional Gallery, Swanhill Regional
Gallery. Curator Anonda Bell.
DIY exhibition by artists running artist run spaces
in Melbourne. Curated by Malcom Bywaters. Monash University School
of Design Gallery.
2000
The Pack - Age. The Performance Space. Sydney.
Curators Brenda Palma and Beverley Southcott.
1997
Artline 97. Linden Gallery. Curator Malcom Bywaters.
Melbourne Fringe Festival.
1994
Madame de Sade. Curator Malcom Bywaters. Gallery
Rhumbarallas, Melbourne.
Domain of the Other. Celebrating Women. National
Gallery of Victoria, Access Gallery. Invited exhibition.
Images
above
K2 & 2A/B 2005, Collaborative
street poster with Birgitta
Lund, Copenhagen as part of the project Global
Fusion Close Up. The artists
exchanged city maps with 'I am here' marked on each. The map references
were transposed onto the alternative map and photographed. Shown
in a city tram shelter and at Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne and
at b a s e m e n t in Vienna.
Group, collaborative and public space
exhibitions
2004
Strata. Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition,
Faculty Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne.
she is here. Urban space street sign intervention,
Melbourne.
a book of IDeas. PrintROOM. Clubs, Melbourne and
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam.
2002
Global Fusion.
Palais Porcia, Vienna. Photographic and text collaboration, titled
ornament, with Australian writer Christine Gillespie.
2001
Salon. Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne.
1999
24 Hour Kongress for Performance and Visual Art.
Berlin Group show. Photographic and sound installation.
u(m)leitung retour detour. Collaborative exhibition
with Barbara Wolters in Berlin and Claudia-Maria Luenig in Melbourne.
Public Office, Melbourne.
New Horizons. Melbourne, Vienna, Berlin, Taipei
collaboration with Ralf Schmitt, Barbara Wolters and Claudia-Maria
Luenig. Girder Institute. Melbourne Fringe Festival.
1998
Kultural Kommuting.
Collaborative installations with Christian Lünig, Berlin, at
Galerie Treppenhaus in Berlin and at the Public Office and Platform
in Melbourne.
1997
WIYIM. Install 97. Melbourne Festival. 12 storey
building image and temporary street work in collaboration with Charles
Rocco.
A4 Art. West Space, Melbourne.
Liverpool Visionfest. Group show of match box art
works. Arena Studios, Liverpool. UK.
World in a Match Box. Group show. Grand Central
Art, Melbourne.
15th Anniversary show. Roar, Melbourne.
Summer Salon. Group show. Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne.
1995
WIYIM in collaboration with Charles Rocco. A 12
storey urban totem on the exterior walls of Grand Central Art, a
central city vacant office building, Melbourne. An interior installation
as part of The Transparent Box. A large scale projection
as part of Grand Visions curated by Wendy Rew/Marie
Sierra with assistance from Ian de Gruchy.
A Four Art group show. West Space, Melbourne.
Roar 2 members show, Roar, Melbourne.
Liverpool Visionfest '95'. Exchange matchbox
exhibition, UK.
Artline. Group show. Foy and Gibson Gallery, Melbourne.
Suitcase. A one day sculpture street art event
in Swanston Street Walk, Melbourne.
1993, 1992, 1991
No Vacancy contemporary art space. Melbourne. 'Australian
Sculpture Triennial.
1993
No Vacancy. Arts Victoria Foyer Gallery, Melbourne.
1992
Street Art/Gallery Art. Mornington Peninsula Regional
Gallery.
Letterboxes. Key Centre for Design at R.M.I.T.
and Australia Post.
1991
International Womens Day Show. Womens Gallery,
Melbourne.
urbanart projects – concept
and coordination
urbanart projects are in collaboration with designer Louise Jennison,
web designer Gracia Haby and many are co curated with Claudia-Maria
Luenig. urbanart is supported by the City of Melbourne.
2005
Global Fusion Close Up. 22 photo
based artists from Australia, Europe and Eastern Europe. Exhibitions
in Melbourne in June. July, August and in Vienna in September. Co
curated with Claudia-Maria Luenig.
2004
melbourneconnectionasia 2004. Artists
from Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo exhibiting in Melbourne transport
shelters and at the City Library and on the urbanart website.
2003
melbourneconnectionasia 2003. Artists
from Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Manila, Yogyakarta and Shanghai exhibiting
in Melbourne transport shelters, Horti Gallery, on the web and Asian
art spaces with an associated publication.
2002
Global Fusion. Co curator with Claudia-Maria
Luenig in Vienna. 42 artists from Australia/Asia and Europe/Eastern
Europe exhibiting at Palais Porcia and Wienstation in Vienna. Associated
forum. Co curated with Claudia-Maria Luenig.
Melbourne Vox Pops. An exploration of
the city's identity through Global People, Family People, Community
People and Public People.
2001
Melbourne Up Close. 37 emerging photographers
from the Photography Studies College invited taking a close look
at 21st century Melbourne. Exhibited in tram shelters at the Open
Space Gallery. Associated forum.
2000
ideas/in/transition. A series of exhibitions
in the Public Office stairwell and tram shelters on the City Circle
Tram route though out the year.
@ global city. Final exhibition in 'ideas/in/transition
series. 43 artists from 54 cities.
1998
Kultural Kommuting. An year long public
project pairing up of 18 artists in Melbourne and Berlin. Installation
collaborations were shown at Platform, a subway exhibition space,
and Bus Stop Art, in transport shelters, in Melbourne in March 1998,
and Galerie Treppenhaus in Berlin in October 1998. Co curated with
Claudia-Maria Luenig.
1995
Suitcase. A one day street art event by 50 invited
artists on the Townhall Plaza, Swanston Street Walk. Jointly curated
with Gillian Dallwitz.
1993 - 1999
cityartpublicspace. Temporary
Public Art Program of the City of Melbourne. Contemporary art spaces
in non traditional showing venues including No Vacancy
in vacant Collins Street and City Square shop fronts, Grand Central
Art in a 13 storey vacant office building, Bus Stop Art in 5 city
bus shelters and Level One Art in first floor windows and co curated
with Gillian Dallwitz, The Word Window. Included Install
'97, Melbourne Festival. Exhibitions changed monthly.
1993
No Vacancy at Roar. Selected exhibition held at
the artist run gallery, Roar.
No Vacancy at Arts Victoria. Selected exhibition
at the Foyer Gallery.
1991
The Art of Making Do. National Gallery of Victoria
exhibition and one day street festival.
1991 - 1994
No Vacancy temporary galleries. Melbourne. Regularly
changing exhibition program in up to nine vacant shop fronts at
any one time. Initiated together with the National Association for
the Visual Arts and the City of Melbourne.
Writing on public space - published
articles & presentations
2004
Art is Essential symposium workshop with Gwynn
James. National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square.
Far from a Victorian state of mind - almost. Report
on the state of the arts in Victoria. National Association for the
Arts Newsletter. Invited writer.
2003
Translating Ideas. melbourneconnectionasia
catalogue essay. Published by urbanart.
2002
Globalisation.
Experimenta Media Arts. Mesh 14. On line journal.
Global Fusion. Global Fusion
Melbourne/Vienna catalogue essay in collaboration with Claudia-Maria
Luenig. Published by urbanart.
2000
private, public, private. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Art. Volume 1, Number 2. Art Association of Australia
and New Zealand. Refereed journal.
1999
Waterfronts
of Art. Art for Social Facilitation. University of
Barcelona. On line journal.
Watch This Space. Public Art conference. University of Newcastle,
Australian Journal of Art, Art Association of Australia.
1998
Kultural Kommuting. Melbourne/Berlin. Artlink.
Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly. Volume 18. No. 4. The
Big Pond - Australian Artists Overseas.
1997
An Artwork in Public Space. Presentation at the
Soros Center for Contemporary
Art, Prague. Associated with An Art Work in Public Space
on line publication and hard copy catalogue publication.
1996
Dialogue. Contributions to this alternative exchange originated
by West Space. Including Negotiating Public Space
Dialogue No. 4. Artists at the Interface Between the Private and
the Public. Paper presented to National Exhibitions Touring Agency,
Canberra.
1995
Bias Binding. Womens Art Register 1975-1995. Catalogue
essay. Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria.
MAPS. Maribrynong arts festival forum, The
role of the audience.
No Vacancy - Setting up a temporary gallery. Kit
for artists, produced through the Artist's Unit of the National
Association for the Visual Arts. Revised 1995. Original 1992.
1994
No Vacancy. Artlink Vol. 14 No. 2 Winter 1994.
No Vacancy. N.A.V.A. Newsletter, June 1994.
1992
No Vacancy. Art Information Expo, Next Wave. Great
Hall, NGV, 1992.
1991
Domain of the Other art in the community forum.
NGV, 1991.
No Vacancy. Going Public forum, Victorian Ministry
for the Arts, 1991.
1990
Public Art - Whose Responsibility? Paper presented
at a forum hosted by C.C.V. and N.A.V.A. as part of the Sculpture
Triennial, 1990.
Professional art association board/committee membership
Current. Founding member and Director of urbanart (Artist Run Initiative).
Incorporarted in 1996.
2000 - 2004 Board member of Melbourne Fringe.
1998 - 2002 Board member of N.A.V.A. (National Association for the
Visual Arts)
1995/1996 Board member. N.C.A.A. (National Campaign for the Arts
Australia)
1995 Deputy Chair of N.A.V.A (National Association for the Visual
Arts) Executive
1994 Appointed to the Executive of N.A.V.A.
1992 - 1995 Victorian artist representative on the N.A.V.A. Board.
Artist awards, grants and residencies
2005 APA (Australian Postgraduate Award) PhD. University of Melbourne.
2004 Short listed for Siemen’s Fine Art Scholarship, RMIT.
1999 Sydney. Three month studio residency at the Gunnery Studios,
NSW Ministry for the Arts.
1985 Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts and Craft Project
Grant.
1984 Awarded studio residency, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne.
Cultural nomadism
2005 London/Copenhagen/Malmo/Lund/Berlin/Hong Kong
2004 Malmo/Copenhagen/Vienna
2003 Malmo/Vienna/Barcelona
2002 Lund/Vienna/Kuala Lumpur/Yogyakarta/Hangzhou/Shanghai
2000/01 Paris/Vienna/London
1997/98 New York/Paris/Berlin/Prague
1993 Italy/France
1990/91 Indonesia
1986 France/Spain/UK/USA
1983 Lived in USA, travel to Canada
1982 Mexico
1979 USA/Mexico
1971/72 Lived in UK, travel to Europe, Africa, Asia
