A comprehensive interview about Michael and making a living as an artist in Wellington can be read here:

From Sea to City: an interview with Wellington artist Michael McCormack

Michael McCormack is a landscape painter based in Wellington, New Zealand. His paintings attend to the light, atmosphere, and shifting perspectives of the local landscape, as well as to experiences of place encountered on tramping journeys. Rooted in real locations and observed moments, his paintings are quietly autobiographical.

McCormack received his BFA (Hons) from the Crawford College of Art in Cork, Ireland. In his twenties, he travelled and painted in New York, Hawaii, Cornwall, and Edinburgh, exhibiting in each city and completing a two-year artist residency in Hawaii.

In 2003, he founded McCormack Studio Gallery in Island Bay, Wellington, where he maintained an open studio practice for over two decades. After earthquake-strengthening requirements made the space no longer viable, he relocated his practice to a new studio in central Wellington.