About me
Corie Denby McGowan is a highly motivated and emerging contemporary fine artist working within the areas of moving image, installation and design. I am highly skilled within many areas and would consider myself an all-rounder type of person who is very hardworking and focussed on developing an outstanding career driven portfolio after recently receiving a first class honours from the University of the Arts London.
Key Skills:
Administration and management: having ran my own Art collectives in the past as well as with my own practise. I am highly organised and great at planning events.
Social media: for the exhibitions that I have previously organised it had become clear that my skills in social media leant huge advantages to the team that I was working with. I had created and edited the online portfolios while also gaining many followers. I currently manage my own account on Instagram @coriedenbymcgowan. (13k followers)
Filming and photography.
Setting up multimedia exhibitions with moving image works.
Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign and After effects.
Eager to learn cinema 4D and unity.
Writing with a fantastic knowledge of art history and appropriate use fine art language.
Tech Savvy with Apple and PC .
Independent and quick learner.
Communication and Social.
coriedenbymcgowan@gmail.com
Instagram:@coriedenbymcgowan
Projects
- Did you bake the cake?Did You Bake The Cake, Yourself?' 2015 by Corie Denby McGowan. Credits to sound designers, Luke Dash and Sam John Mercer on help with the sound! The concept for this artwork originally derived from the interest my baking had received during various Artist talks and meetings whilst on a residency. I discovered that the buns and cakes featured in my previous work ‘Domestic Ambitions’ had sparked more enthusiasm than the actual artwork itself. In fact I had been asked a few times about the buns in ‘Domestic Ambitions’ when this was a minor part of the artwork and had little effect on the overall piece. The whole concept of this piece was to underline beliefs in which Women are associated with the domestic and unprofessional. I found it rather ironic that I was being asked such questions in regard to my practice, as a female Artist creating work of a feminist nature. The main body of my artistic research for ‘Did you bake the cake, yourself?’ focuses on the misconceptions that associate Women with the domestic lifestyle and baking. I will be taking into consideration how still-life can form an outer representation of a particular identity and how female stereotypes are presented through the media. Specifically observing how Women are treated within the fine art spectrum in relation to personal experiences as a female identified artist. I wanted to created something with a grotesque approach so I whipped-up some scrumptious looking cakes in which actually tasted repugnant. Again playing with the delusion that all Women are great at baking. Employing food as a fine art medium also encompasses the connotations in which viewers may identify with that particular food; these could be issues such as eating disorders. Having experienced an unhealthy relationship with food, the way food is executed in my work is seen as something quite pleasurable and indulgent. I find it rather comforting to look at food from this perspective and would like to advocate this extravagant and overly decorative, commercial and fake way in which advertisements present food for commercial consumption. Food is sexualised and shown as indulgent I want to engage the viewer within this same kind of control that used in advertising to gain the same kind of power. Adverts are made to lure people in with an aesthetic control that can make the viewer feel titillated but it sells and gives power to the film-maker. Visually I am aiming to make something that could be considered to be overly decorative while focusing in on the sensual and overly indulgent aspects of historical still-life painting as a source of inspiration. I admire the excessive, richness of feasts in paintings in which evoke my own thoughts of consumption and greed touching upon ideas to do with consumerism and commercial advertising.
Work history
Curator
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Working on collaboratively on this project housed within the Wimbledon Space Gallery, London. An exploration of works that were selected from the prestigious LUX moving image archive. The aim was to investigate how the spontaneous can be constructed to create meaningful interactions. Selected works by the following artists: George Barber, Phillip Hoffman, Lis Rhodes, Guy Sherwin, John Smith, Wood and Harrison and James Richards.
Governess
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Working with children has infinitely become my passion over the period of working here. I had become very interested in teaching and the perspective in which children take on. Here I spent a year working privately for a family in London taking care of three children ages 5-11. It was a truly unforgettable experience.
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Skills
- Advertising
- Film
- Visual Arts
- Print Design
- Art Direction
- Music Videos
- TV Film Commercial
- Printmaking
- Editing
- Exhibition
- Multi-media Artist
- Camera Operation
- Creative Direction
- Photoshop
- Word
Education
MA Contemporary Art Practise:moving Image Pathway
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BA(Hons) Fine Art:print and Time-based Media
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Wimbledon College of the Arts.Expected achievement of 2:1 or higher.
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Awards
Shortlisted Royal Ulster Academy 135th Exhibition RUA