The artworks I lay before the viewer aim to evoke an active response in everyone who has felt within themselves an urge to grow beyond their inheritance. My objective in creating various identities and roles is to develop as an artist, to find a voice and a definition, to stimulate mental faculties and expression. By inhabiting and interpolating myself into various roles, I begin new learning processes. My interests lie in transitions and transformations, masquerade and artifice. The transition from naiveté to knowing, innocence to experience, suppressed eroticism to sexual awakening. My aim is to blur the borders between fiction and non fiction, reproduction and reality, and create an interplay between documentary, accuracy and dramatisation.

Séamus McCormack was educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Limerick School of Art & Design. He graduated in 2006 with a first class honours degree in Fine Art receiving the Best Fine Art Student Award, and in addition was awarded the Gold Medal for Academic Excellence from the Faculty of Applied Arts, DIT. He has exhibited his work in group shows across Ireland including the Stone Gallery, Dublin, Catalyst Arts, Belfast and Mullingar Arts, Centre. He also devised a performance piece on view at Project Arts Space, Temple-Bar in April 2006. He has received a number grants from the Westmeath County Council Arts Office and in 2006 received the Emerging Artist Bursary Award. Séamus has been involved in a number of Community Art initiatives, and is currently employed by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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