Welcome
Dr. Josephine McCormick is an artist, printmaker and educator, based in Belfast, N.Ireland. Specialising in Fine Art Printmaking. She is currently printmaking lecturer at Belfast Metropolitan College and an active member of Belfast Print Workshop. Josephine's work has represented the UK in various International Print Exhibitions in Australia, China, France, Germany and Russia.
Her research interests span science, engineering and technology developing hybrid applications for Fine Art practice. She received her MA in Fine Art Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art and her PhD from the University of Ulster. Her research centred on the appropriation of CAM/CNC technology within viscosity printmaking, developing an innovative hybrid practice Fine Art printmaking methodology. A film of Josephine's work in Paris and Belfast 'Printmaking it Real', can be viewed on youtube under the categories of Education and Printmaking or view it by this link.
Areas of special interest in her work are 3D printmaking, cymatic and CNC applications, a diverse set of inspirations. Yet her practice aims to give voice to the ordinary and to reveal connectivity through these intangibles between systems. Through her practice she has collaborated with multi - disciplinary groups of people, Engineers, Scientists and Sound Artists in the making of work.
To contact Josephine please email her at: jmcprints@hotmail.com
A record of her practice will be in the forthcoming A&C Black publication 'Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques', in August 2012.
Collaborative Research Projects in 2012:
- 'Habitation' project 3D printmaking collaborative research cluster at University of Middlesex initiated by Steve Mumberson Reader in Art
- 'Sound Works' A collaborative project with Dr Eric Lyon from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, [SARC] Queens University, Belfast. Dr Lyon lectures in Composition and Music Software Development at SARC. The suite of prints will be based on experimental sound works and cymatic patterns.
- 'Interrupted Vision' A collaborative project with Tom Edgar, director of the Northern Ireland Technology Centre, Queens University, Belfast, based on the production of 3D modeling of the interior of the eye. Project may be viewed on youtube.
- 'The Sans Vista Wood Type Project ,Pennsylvania' CNC mediated wood type research project. Funded by the Centre of Material Culture studies, University of Delaware. Initiated by Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford as a collaborative interplay between venerable/archaic and experimental / modern technology in an effort to produce a hybrid form of typographic design where the production is ingrained in the product. The project will be showcased at amongst other venues, Yale University, College Book Arts Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, Columbia College, Chicago. To view project: www.vswtp.org
