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Ivor Houston: On Foot Across Australia
In 2025, selected as a finalist in the 17th Art Renewal Centre (ARC) International Salon (New York) and as an artwork included in the Lunar Codex, to be launched in Sept 2025.
2022, oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches
Molong Storm, oil on panel
Printmaking Gallery
Catherine McCorkill
Catherine McCorkill is a visual artist who lives and works in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Artist Statement:
After a long and wonderfully rewarding career in classical music, I took up art again, studying at the Nepean Art and Design Centre, and completed a Masters (Studio Arts) at the Florence Academy of Art in 2023 , focussing on portraiture.
My art-making is directed by the search for meaning, truth, beauty and the journey within that search. Music, poetry and philosophy influence my art, as does the natural world, and portraiture is of great interest to me, capturing something of a person’s existence and energy in time and space. Luminance, atmosphere and depth of tone are elements I like to explore in the mediums of painting, drawing and printmaking.
Exhibitions/ Prize selection
Upcoming:
July 2025: Echoes of Light: Solo exhibition at Braemar Gallery, Springwood NSW
November 2025: Solo Exhibition at The Shop Gallery, Glebe, NSW
- 2025: Finalist in the 17th International ARC Salon (Art Renewal Centre in New York)
- Portrait of Ivor Houston chosen to be included in the Lunar Codex, an archive of human artistic achievement, to be sent to the moon in September 2025
- People’s Choice Award, 2023 Blue Mountains Portraits, exhibited at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
- August 2023: Exhibiton of Masters’ students’ work at the Florence Academy of Art, Italy
- April 2023: Exhibition of 30 works at The Shop Gallery, Glebe point Rd, Glebe
- Finalist in 2022 Kennedy Art Foundation Prize, exhibition September 2022 at the Royal South Australian Art Society Gallery
- Selected for the 2022 Lake Art Prize
- 2022, semi-finalist, Darling Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
- Tiny Art Project, Nov-Dec 21, Marrickville, Fundraising Exhibition for Papua New Guinea Health
- 2021: Online Collaborative Exhibition, Blue Mountains Creative Artists Network (Feb- April)
- November 2019: Solo Exhibition, Huntington Festival at Huntington Estate Winery, Mudgee, NSW
- Hare St Gallery, Glenbrook: Upcoming group exhibition, November/December
- 1-3 November, Blue Mountains Print Making Prize exhibition, Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre, Glenbrook, NSW
- 0ct 30- Nov 7 “100 Lines” Group Exhibition, The Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Art and Design Centre, Kingswood, NSW, Graduating Diploma of Visual Arts students, including examples of painting, drawing, printmaking , ceramics and photography
- June 2019 TAFE NSW Drawing Prize, Finalist, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank NSW
- 2019 Solo exhibition: May 14- Nov 13, Blaxland Health Centre, Blaxland NSW
- Half Cube Gallery, Blacktown, Sydney, group exhibition
- 2019 Group exhibition, Sydney Design Festival, Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Art and Design Centre, Kingswood
- 2018 Me, Myself, I, group exhibition, Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Art and Design Centre, Kingswood
- 2018 Printmaking, group exhibition, Glenbrook Creative Arts Centre
- 2018 2018 Emerging, group exhibition,Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Art and Design Centre, Kingswood
- 2018 Blume Miniatures, group exhibition, Gallery One 88, Katoomba
Commissions
Please contact me…especially for portraits and landscapes
Work With Me
I’m happy to collaborate in artistic projects!!
Follow Me
Instagram site:
catherine_mccorkill
Tovisit: follow link:
Education
2021-2023: MA(Studio Art) @ Florence Academy of Art
2021 Art Therapy: Connection and Community: Statement of Attainment (TAFE NSW)
2021: Masterclasses with Jaq Grantford and Andrew Bonneau
2019-2020 Life Drawing Group, and Painting classes with Chris Vidal at Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre
2018 -19 Diploma of Visual Arts, Nepean Art and Design Centre
2018: Printmaking workshops with Master Printmaker, Basil Hall, and lithography workshop with Annie Day and Robin Ezra
2018 Printmaking: Statement of Attainment, Nepean Art and Design Centre
2018 Adobe Photoshop: Statement of Attainment, Nepean Art and Design Centre
2018 Observational drawing: Statement of Attainment, Nepean Art and Design Centre
1984 – 85 Awarded a Churchill Fellowship, 15 months study in Europe and the USA (classical music, clarinet)
1983 – 84 Grad Dip (Music performance), ANU
1980-1982 BA (Music), with 2nd study in Drawing Studio at ANU School of Art, Canberra
Collections:
Private collections in Australia and the UK
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