Patricia McCormack: Cliff Falls From Comets in Zero Gravity
Series of paintings – ongoing project.
Patricia wrote: “A small amount of gravity exists on comet 67P, just enough to allow pieces of it to fall away. I like to consider that these pieces don’t fall in any particular direction - up, down, right or left.”
“The position and shape of the comet changed frequently during our observations of it, particularly in 2015. During a close encounter with the sun several cliff falls occurred sending outbursts of dust and ice out into empty space.”
“These paintings are not so much about comet 67P, but about the movement occurring upon it and how these movements of rock changed the space around it. Cliff Falls from Comets in Zero Gravity exists in an early stage but currently these small paintings speak the in strongest voice so far. This project is ongoing.”
Patricia McCormack is a fine art and event photographer currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). In 2011 she graduated from the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland, with a First Class Honours Degree in visual art practice. In 2012 she also completed a Diploma in photography and digital imaging at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She has just completed a Masters in contemporary art practice at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
Since moving to Edinburgh she has focused on the influence of our atmosphere in the production of landscape and astrophotography. Since 2014 she has been working in collaboration with astronomers and astrophysicists at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Through this collaboration her practice had dived into a domestication of the astronomical sublime where nebulae become ‘connected’ to light switches, galaxies become unreadable maps, interstellar dust clouds become 'removable’ and a park bench becomes a viewing platform for the approach of our nearest galaxy - Andromeda.
More at: http://patriciatallulagh.wixsite.com/pisforphotography and: http://trishmccormackthrowingrocks.tumblr.com
A small series of paintings (small in quantity and small in stature) have recently been picked up by a staff writer at the European Space Agency and featured on the Rosetta Art Tribute blog link below. These paintings were experiments and personally I felt as though they may not travel anywhere. However, now that they have been exposed to a larger audience thanks to the ESA featuring them in their collection perhaps they deserve a little bit more of my attention. Cliff Falls From Comets in Zero Gravity, 2017 - present.