Who: Jane McCormack
Location: Cavan
Jane McCormick is a visual artist based in Cavan, and recently exhibited Not Half Right in the University of Atypical Gallery in Belfast.
The work in Not Half Right exhibition is a disjointed narrative of the artist Jane McCormick’s chronically ill life as she enters her seventh decade with all guns not blazing. She describes it as a monologue of misery, made slowly with many intermissions and peppered with moments of levity to sweeten the pill. The ephemera of a sick life and the associated pills, potions, cures and lotions are some of the themes in this work. It also explores rituals around healing and the never ending search for ‘the cure’. Over the years McCormick have amassed a grand hoard of useless articles and medically related tat much of which has found its way into the drawings, prints and assemblages in the show.
Private & Confidential. Self portrait on hospital appointment letter. (One of 6)
Back Yard Water Cure. Self portrait
Dr Lows Prescription. Pill bottles with photos of artist over text from Mental Health through Will Training by Dr Low. Published 1950
St Dympnas cure. Water from St Dympnas well Cavan said to have the cure of mental illness.
Praise be. Prescription pills in a shrine.
Weep No more. Water from St Dympnas well Monaghan. St Davnets Psychiatric hospital was named after St Dympna.
Mothers little worry box. Worries collected during a CBT course for Anxiety/depression.
Not half right. Bone china plate
First Aid mary. Virgin Mary in a first aid box.
Frazzled. Digital print
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