Alison Mac Cormaic
Mosaic artist - Educator
Mosaic artist - Educator
Alison Mac Cormaic
BIOGRAPHY
Originally from Scotland, I now live near Loughrea in County Galway, Ireland. I work in the medium of mosaic and as an arts educator in schools and community settings. I have completed various public art commissions, primarily in mosaic. As a design historian I am interested in materials, design and why things look the way they do.
My practice is influenced by pattern, nature and the figure, with hand drawn qualities informing the finished works. My site specific commissions are inspired by local cultural heritage, centred in drawing from life and use colour combinations that sing.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Employment
2017 - 2019
Professional Diploma in Education (Further Education), University of Galway.
Part time art teacher, Youthreach
Teaching Support Staff, University of Galway
2013 - 2014
Certificate in Integrating Literacy, Maynooth University.
1989 - 1993
BA (Hons) Architectural Glass, ECA
2014 - 2016
Masters in Design History and Material culture, NCAD.
Awards / Commissions
2025
Pattern for Portumna, Community mosaic for Portumna Library, Creative Ireland funding.
Exhibitions
2025
Birds of a Feather, Community mosaic for Ballinasloe Library, Creative Ireland funding.
2025
GSoI Juried Exhibition, Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2025
Opere dal Mondo, AIMC’s juried exhibtion, Ravenna Biennale of Contemporary Mosaics, Ravenna, Italy
2025
2024
Interwined, Mosaic of the Community Brain. Ballybane Library, EU Horizon Programme with CURAM
2023
Foxglove mosaic installation and art education in CAMHS, Galway. Arts Council YPCE funding.
2022
Knockcroghery, Fire! Sculptural mosaic for Knockcroghery, County Roscommon.
Venice Glass Week HUB, Venice Italy
2025
2022
St Patrick’s Bell.Sculptural mosaic commission for Glor na nGael.
Peace Bowl Exhibition, GSoI, City Assembly House, Dublin
Fashion Fusion Show, Biot, France
Group Show, Shorelines Arts Festival, Portumna
Constellations, Mosaic exhibition Chester Cathedral
Overlooked, World of Glass, St Helen’s, Liverpool, England.
2024
2024
2024
2022
Fourteen Fragile Forms, joint show with glass artist, LIndsay LeBlanc, Clifden Arts Festival
2025
2021
2019
2019
2017
2017
2021
Flowers, Fruits and Seedcases. Mosaic Merlin Woods. Per Cent for Art
Theory of Entanglement. CONNECT, Waterford Institute of Technology
Lixnaw Illustrated Inventory of Everyday Objects and Lost Palaces Mosaic. Kerry County Council as part of the Creative Ireland Programme.
Artist in Schools. Galway County Council funding.
Planning Through Time. Heritage Council and Arts Council, YPCE funding.
Design History Society. International award winner in excellence for design writing.
Offices
Founding member and Chairperson of Mosaic Artists Association Ireland (MAAI)
Education Officer of Glass Society of Ireland (GSOI) and member of the Editorial Team for Glass Ireland
Member of British Association for Modern Mosaics (BAMM)
Member of Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
Member of Associazione Internazionale Mosaicisti Contemporanei (AIMC)
CONTACT
To contact me please send an email to alisonmaccormaic@yahoo.ie
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