Karin McCormack

MÖBIUS

Through my personal arts practice, as well as my work as an art therapist, I am always interested in the use of creativity as a form of expression and exploration of our inner life.

Sometimes we try to compartmentalise and separate the inner and outer worlds of our lives, and components of them. The möbius shape has been used by some therapists to illustrate the inevitable overlaps in our lives, particularly between these inner and outer worlds. In this shape there is no definite inside or outside and no clear separation between the two; what appears to be the inside or the outside of the shape has no beginning or ending point.

Admiring this shape, and its potential to demonstrate this reality, I attempted to create it using clay, my current medium of choice.

Thank you to the staff in The Friends School Art Department for assistance and advice with glazing and firing.

I am a multi modal artist and art therapist living and working in nipaluna/Hobart.

I attended the School of Art, UTAS, from 1983-1987, and 1990, majoring in printmaking, photography and education.

In subsequent years I have undertaken post graduate study and worked in teaching and in art therapy in various locations, most recently in community arts and health settings such as women’s prisons and shelters and community arts groups, including working 1:1 with individuals from these settings. As well as supporting these artists I have curated exhibitions of their work.

Over the course of those years I have explored creativity and making in many formats ranging from gardening and knitting, singing, making music, through to drawing, painting, collage, and now ceramics.