Robert McCormack is a SADGRAD graduating from the Painting and Printmaking programme at the Glasgow School of Art amidst the COVID19 outbreak. His work explores normative behaviours and status. Lately the pet has become a fixation, expanded to include dogs, cats and even children. A process based practice, the work moves fluctuates between performance, drawing, sculpture and installation.

Biography
B. 25/12/1997
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Education
Glasgow School of Art, BA Honours in Painting and Printmaking
2016-2020 (Pending)

Exchange
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,Vancouver,Canada, 2018

Other projects
Project coordinator for Jack Halberstam lecture at GSA and Seminar at CCA, 2020
Project coordinator for Book of Nudes life drawing group at SALT community space, Glasgow, 2020
Installing work for New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2020

Awards
RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence 2020
John and Mabel Craig  Undergraduate Scholarship 2016-2020
Scottish Arts Club award 2020
John Byrne Entrance prize award 2017
RBA Scholar award 2017

Residencies
Outcomes Beyond Performance with curator Holly Knox Yoeman, Skypark, Glasgow 2019

Upcoming exhibitions
A Series of Bad Jokes, Solo Drawing exhibition at Drawing Life, Glasgow 2020
More Excerpts, Group film reel, CCA, Glasgow, 2020
Glasgow School of Art Degree show, Glasgow 2020
Solo Exhibition at Scottish arts Club, Edinburgh 2021

Exhibitions
VAS/SSA Open at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2020
Across the Sea, Pratt Institute, New York, 2019
Outcomes Beyond Performance, Skypark, Glasgow 2019
Lets Walk, Group show, The old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2019
Soup Third year show, Glue Factory, Glasgow 2019
Not For Sale, Student protest exhibition, Vancouver, 2018
More is less Fine art exhibition Laurieston Arches, Glasgow 2018
Test Bed Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow 2018
Body Bank Old Hair dressers group show, Glasgow 2018
RBA annual show Mall Galleries, London 2017
Rising Stars London Mall Galleries, London2 017
Tongue Fest Laurieston Arches, Glasgow 2017
Living room Three person show Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2017
Stuffed gallery Newave gallery, Aberdeen 2017
Open house festival with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Glasgow  2017
VUA Annual Members Show, Edinburgh 2016

Memberships
SaltSpace 2019/2020
Transmission 2017/18
VAU Artists collective 2016/17

Website
robertmccormack.co.uk

Invigilation
Glasgow International 2018, The Briggait

Employment
Supply Pupil Support assistant, Highland Council 2016-current
Freelance Youth worker, Highlife Highland, 2016-current
Life model, Drawing life, London Road Atelier, Drawing life, Book of Nudes, 2019-current
Freelance graphic designer, PARCS (Preserve And Revamp Culloden and Smithton) 2017