Category: 2012

Student Show 2012

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Catalyst Arts Student Show

14th December – 21 December

Preview 13th December 6 – 9pm

Catalyst Arts presents the Annual Student Show which provides a platform to demonstrate innovative, dynamic and stimulating work from the UK, Ireland and Worldwide. The selection of students and recent graduates work ranges from performance, installation, painting, sculpture and inter-disciplinary practice.

Participating Artists;

Sarah Doherty

Marie Farrington

Eimear  Friers

Debbie Guinnane

Barbara H. Larkin

Daniel McMillan

Holly Parmley

Jean-Philippe Paumier

Andrew Shannon

WE

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WE

WE

16 November – 7 December

WE

16 November – 7 December

Opening Thursday November 15th
7 -10pm

Featuring: Craig Cox | Kevin Gaffney | Cecilia Giménez ® | Anthony Luvera | Brian J Morrison | Artur Zmijewski

WE is a group exhibition featuring selected works by local, national and international artists that explore issues surrounding identity through various mediums.

Anthony Luvera will give an artist talk at 1pm on Friday the 17th of November. This is a free event and all are welcome.

Fata Morgana

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FATA MORGANA.

October 19 – November 09, 2012

Opening: October 18, 7pm – 9pm

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Persijn Broersen | Stuart Calvin | Phil Collins | Martin Healy | Margit Lukács | Tim Millen

What is reality and how is it defined?

Catalyst Arts presents Fata Morgana, a group show featuring selected
works by local, national and international artists engaging with
aspects of ‘reality’. The exhibition reflects on how artists question,
negotiate, examine, (de-) construct and manipulate our perception and
experience of reality by exploring the cinematic, the artificial,
fantasy and the mythical in a variety of different mediums.

Fata Morgana will include a number of artist talks and screenings in the gallery.

Saturday 20 October

2pm – 3pm

Artist talk by Dublin-based film maker and photographer Martin Healy

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8pm – 10pm.

Film Screening with popcorn

Fellini’s masterpiece, ‘8 1/2’

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Saturday 27 October

Film Screening with popcorn

Disney epic, ‘Fantasia’

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Saturday 03 November

Film Screening with popcorn

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION Part 2

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION Part 2

Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
from 9th to 21st of September
Opening 8th of September at 7pm.

In May 2012, Catalyst Arts exhibited a selection of our members work in ‘La Station’, nice.
Now the tables have turned, we are pleased to present La Stations’ selected artists here in Catalyst Arts. The 9 artists from Nice are : Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Alexandra Guillot, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Vivien Roubaud, Ugo Schiavi, Cédric Teisseire, Tatiana Wolska and Gérald Panighi

Necrospective

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Preview Opening
Thursday 9th August
6pm – 9pm

Exhibition
10th August – 31st August

Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm

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Motohiko Odani
Takeshi Murata
Thomas Johnson
Alexis Milne
Craig Fisher

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The show explores the relationship between violence and acting out. Freud’s death drive has been described by Jean Baudrillard as a “nostalgia for a state before the appearance of individuality and sexual differentiation, a state in which we lived before we became mortal and distinct from one another”. Baudrillard discusses this subconscious desire in relation to the project of science and technology, which he suggests, is driven by a quest for immortality, exemplified through cloning and cryogenics. Science and technology also have the effect of manifesting homogenous and uniform objects and experiences, which embody the formal qualities of the death drive. In this sense he suggests that the project of science is “to reconstruct a homogenous and uniformly consistent Universe.” This clone of the real world, in a technological form, embodies the formal qualities that satisfy the death drive; repetition and homogeneity.

The show will explore the relationship between Baudrillard’s notion that science and technology produce objects and experiences that embody the death drive and Freud’s notion that the death drive leads people to re-enact (act out) and repeat traumatic experiences. This relationship can be realized by viewing technology as a form of performance or acting. The resultant technological object / experience is a kind of travesty, a fake or re-enactment of nature. The works in the show will explore the new sanitised invention of the world, our technologically mediated environment, the environment in which abject and mucky nature has been eradicated. This environment is presented as a world in which the death drive is satisfied, where violence and the abject have been displaced through a technological, man made infrastructure, suggesting that, through our engagement in a technologically mediated world, we have suppressed our fear of mortality and absolved ourselves of responsibility, distorting our relationship with the origins of all our actions; “real,” unmediated nature.

‘Augment’

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‘Augment’

Catalyst Arts will be taking over the Belfast Waterfront for the month of August with our latest exhibition ‘Augment’.
‘Augment’ is a curated members show of the surreal, featuring local and international Artists who work with a broad range of different media.

Blaine O’Donnell / Robbie Nolan / Joanne Proctor / Fiona ni Mhaoilir  / Ramon Kassam / Michael fitzgerald / Greg Rook / Carol Anne Connolly / Ciara McMahon / Heather Gabel / Sharon Boothroyd / Emma Campbell / Aoife Flynn / Cainneach Lennon / Janet Moris / Tadhg Ó Cuirrín / Olivier Larivière / Leo Koivistoinen / Ross Watson / Judith Leupi

The exhibition will open at 6pm on the 2nd of August at The Watefront Hall.

∆ C U R S E D ∆

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∆CURSED∆

22nd June – 13th July
Opens Thursday 21st 7pm

Flora Moscovici, Craig Donald, Karin Hagen, Emma Boyd, Helen
McDonnell Deirdre McKenna & Miguel Martin (workshop)

An exhibition of works by contemporary painters, maybe.

∆CURSED∆ provides a platform for these artists to display works that exist on
the periphery of the medium. Their practices all challenge the formal
qualities and explore or bridge boundaries between painting and everything
else. This a painting show in the loosest possible sense.

Workshop with Miguel Martin, Saturday 23rd June 12pm – 4pm (Free of
charge)
For bookings please contact catalystarts@gmail.com

Fifteenovereight

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fifteenovereight

24th May – 7th June

fifteenovereight is a collection of works from a group of thirteen
emerging artists in Belfast. These artists work in various media
forms, from painting and drawing to film, installation, photography
and sculpture with themes such as space, light, human and industrial
expression, and atmosphere.

Whilst the painters focus on bleak urban scenes and melancholic figure
work, the sculptors use ceramics and metal, combining modern
industrial aesthetics with traditional craft. An illustrator applies
dark humour and shrewd satire, and print and film-makers explore
innovative sculptural forms and dark atmospheric environments.

The uniting vision of these thirteen artists is to visually express a
current stance on our modern economic and social climate, and to
reflect on the influences this has on both a personal and communal
level.

Steven Pollock
Marc Dunlop
Megan Gibson
Tsui
Colm Wray
Hayley Patrick
Alison Steers
Paul Murphy
Rob Hilken
Allan McKeown
Sam Megaw
Adeva McGuinness
Tomaz Andreson

Richard Forrest and Emanuel Rohss

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Catalyst Arts Belfast – The Joinery Dublin

Exchange Programme.
3rd May – 17 May

New work by Richard Forrest and Emanuel Rohss.

After the success of the first collaboration Switched in September 2010, The Joinery Dublin
will once again collaborate with Catalyst Arts Belfast to present a selection of work by two
recent graduates selected by the Joinery, from the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork
and NCAD in Dublin. This work will be re-exhibited in Catalyst Arts, providing the artists with
an opportunity to show in another gallery context and to a new audience. In March the recent
graduate works selected by Catalyst were exhibited at The Joinery in Dublin. This exchange
provides an opportunity for recent graduate artists to showcase their work to new and broader
audiences.

Richard Forrest was chosen by the Joinery as part of the 2011 graduate programme.
In his current practice Forrest explores a relationship with technology by making, hacking,
glitching and subverting assumed uses of digital media.
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Richard Forrest graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2011 with first class
honours in his studio practice. Forrest is a founding member of Sample Studios. He also works
as a gallery facilitator in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. In 2011, he was awarded the Tyndell
Purchase prize, the CIT Registrars Prize: Research Bursary, the Ciaran Langford Memorial
Bursary Award (6 month residency at Backwater studios), the Cork Printmakers Studio Bursary
Award and the Joinery Graduate Selection Prize for his work at last year’s Crawford degree show
exhibition,

Emanuel Rohss was chosen by the Joinery as part of the 2011 graduate programme.
His work takes the dialectics of materiality and form as its point of departure. In his recent work
Rohss investigates the physical characteristics of painting and sculpture – the limitations and
potential of the mediums – as well as the relationship between objects.
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Emanuel Rohss was born in Göteborg, Sweden. He studied at Valand School of fine Art and
graduated from the National College of Art & Design with a 1st class Hons degree in Painting in
2011. He has shown work in galleries, museums and art centres in Sweden, Germany, the UK,
Ireland, China, the Czech republic and the United States. He has worked in collaboration with the
Dublin based art group MART, and the Swedish fanzine collaborative Jarko.
Rohss is currently living in London undertaking an MA in the Royal College of Art.

The Joinery is a not for profit contemporary art and project space set up in Dublin in 2008 which
has become known for its challenging and energetic programme of visual art and experimental
live music.

www.thejoinery.org

SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

Catalyst Arts, Nice Exchange in partnership with ”La Station”, Nice, France.

This year we are very excited to organize a new partnership with La Station as an exchange between both organisation and gallery space.

SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

12th – 19th may 2012.

Opens on 12th at 6pm/18h,

Sarah Maison & Little d Big B will perform at 8pm/20h

The show will be presented a selection of Catalyst Arts members ‘s curiosities.

La Station is an Organisation that promotes the most contemporary artistic creations through its artists’ studios and its exhibition space. The collective has occupied many different spaces since 1996 and is now situated in a disused slaughterhouse.
La Station has participated in several projects and exchanges with other organisations around France and Europe.
more information on La Station can be found at www.lastation.org or via facebook:
www.facebook.com/LaStation.nice

V I C I N I T Y

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Catalyst Arts presents VICINITY, a group exhibition investigating temporary, adaptable and transitory methods for exploring Belfast city. Artists work in an engaged manner using the mile radius of the gallery as a starting point to make new work in the gallery and at offsite locations.  Artists:

Bbeyond ‘fare’
fare utilised the transient communal site of the back of a black taxi inviting the audience to share an intimate experience with the artists as their taxi makes it way through the city.  Ten taxis queued in Squeeze Gut Alley at the galleries entrance and begun their journey at 7pm sharp.  Artists – Anne Quail, Fergus Byrne, Pavana Reid, Rainer Pagel, James King, Tina Hopp, Felipe Faundez, Chrissie Cadman, Sinead O’Donnell & Charlotte Bosanquet, Phillip McCrilly & Kim McAleese, each made live performances in the taxis

Jean-pierre Bertrand
Brussels based artist, Jean Pierre Bertrand,  travelled to Belfast to make new work for Vicinity, his hexagonal concrete blocks can be found at six locations on the outskirts of Belfast

Fiona Larkin ‘Wolfs Den’
Larkin invited participants to borrow a custom embroidered ‘Wolfs Den’ jacket from the gallery, in return she asked that participants allowed her to follow and video them.  The documentation of which was incorporated into the installation.

Shiro Masuyama ‘Legal Parking’
Masuyami has worked nomadically all over the world, recently moved out of Berlin and now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  For Vicinity Masuyami exhibited ‘Legal Parking’ for information on the project please follow the link.  Legal Parking 

Jim McCracken
McCracken is a belfast based print and street artist who created a site specific flyposted work in the gallery for Vicinity.

Seamus Nolan
Nolan created a site specific installtion ‘pantone’ within the gallery by painting the back wall a mixture of  the three colours of the Irish flag, mixed in equal quantities.

MA art in public
Students on the University of Ulster MA Art in Public course used Catalyst as a research hub and installation area where they worked on projects which engaged with the are,  using a range of media.  On the last day of Vicinity Pauline Hadaway, director of Belfast Exposed Gallery chaired a discussion on their project entitled ‘walking as research’

zones of response
zones of response developed an interactive project,  participants were invited to explore the area on foot,  then; using their mobile phones, text words they would like to see removed form the city to a designated phone number.  The words were then projected onto the gallery walls revealing a textual narrative of Belfast city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joinery Exchange part 1

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Catalyst Arts / The Joinery

Exchange Program

The Joinery

22nd – 31st March

In collaboration with The Joinery, Catalyst Arts presents a selection of work by recent graduates chosen from the University of Ulster Degree Show 2011 (Belfast), highlighting the variety of output by local emerging practitioners. Graduates chosen are Amy Brooks, Stuart Calvin and Ruaidhri Lennon.
This work will be re-exhibited in the Joinery, and provides the selected artists with an opportunity to show alongside their peers in a new, curated context.
Afterwards, the recent graduate works selected by The Joinery will be exhibited in Catalyst Arts. Through this exchange both galleries hope that the work made by artists from both cities will reach new, and broader, audiences.

Catalyst Arts was founded to support and exhibit the work of students, local, emerging and more established artists, often exhibiting them alongside international names. The organization provides a training ground for future artistic, curatorial and arts administrative talent, and is committed to providing services and opportunities for its large members’ base. As a result, the gallery continues to present cutting edge and challenging contemporary art on a modest budget, showcased in an accessible and dynamic art space in the heart of Belfast. Over the years, Catalyst has worked and collaborated with a diverse range of organisations, groups and institutions in Northern Ireland, the Republic and abroad.

The gallery is run by a board of voluntary directors, each serving for a maximum of two years, and has implemented this model since its constitution. The gallery programme is co-ordinated by the committee and consists of both budgeted and unfunded projects, including an annual student and members show. Catalysts members pay an annual fee and in return can borrow equipment, contribute to the Annual general meeting, enter calls for open submissions and exhibit in the annual members show programmed by the gallery.

Sean Lynch Solo Show

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Sean Lynch

24 February – 16 March

Opening to the public on Thursday 23 February, 7–9pm.

Catalyst Arts presents the first solo show in Belfast by Irish artist Sean Lynch, showcasing an expanded version of the artist’s ongoing DeLorean Progress Report. Based around the bankruptcy and subsequent aftermath of the DeLorean car factory, which operated in Dunmurry from 1981-2, a series of photographs trace a path taken by the artist to find the location of the tooling once used to make the body of the car. Furthering this investigation of the materiality of DeLorean, the gallery will feature ongoing work by Lynch to produce sections of a DMC-12 car by handmade rather than industrial means. New developments in the project are detailed in a free booklet accompanying the exhibition

In addition, a collection of photographs, sculptures and archival material are displayed in Catalyst’s Project Space, all collected through Lynch’s investigations into the contexts and histories of public art in Ireland.

Sean Lynch (b. 1978, Kerry. Lives and works in Berlin and Co. Limerick) has exhibited at IMMA, Dublin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.  He is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.

Sean Lynch will give a talk in the gallery on Friday 24 February at 1pm. All are welcome to attend.

Sean Lynch Website

Directors Cut

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New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by

Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] /

Basic Space [Dublin]

NCAD Gallery is presenting a series of new projects which will represent the work of a number of artist led
initiatives, working throughout Ireland, which embodies a new approach and a challenge to institutional visual
arts programming.

In recent years, and pre-dating recession in some cases, Catalyst Arts [Belfast]; Occupy Space [Limerick]; The
Good Hatchery [Offaly] and Basic Space [Dublin] have established strong, coherent and critically significant
presences in the Irish visual arts context and, in their strategic ideologies, argue for a reconfiguration of
inherited thinking about the nature and purpose of art and the nature and purpose of art institutional practice.
This aligns with other transnational artist led initiatives and ideologies which respond to ‘situations’.

For this project artist-led Catalyst Arts presents ‘Director’s Cut’ a selection of work sourced from the
organisation’s archive symbolising a legacy of commitment from past members and directors. Transforming
the gallery ‘Director’s Cut’ will display artefacts, past publications, a selection of posters, the re-exhibit of Art
Rebels, a selection of slides with notes by the current Catalyst directors and the original Catalyst Arts neon
sign designed by David Shrigley. In addition, a number of archive posters will be fly-posted in proximity to
NCAD, re-contextualising them in light of this exhibition.

Catalyst Arts ‘Director’s Cut’ is open from 9 – 25 February at NCAD Gallery celebrated by an opening view on Monday
13 February 6pm. *Catalyst directors Rob Hilken and Alissa Kleist will give a talk on the Catalyst Arts archive to its
present day function on 13 February 5pm in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

Occupy Space is a non-commercial gallery in the heart of Limerick City, established through the Creative
Limerick Scheme in 2009. As part of the programme at NCAD Gallery they have invited Art Links Limerick
(ALL) present their on-going research about Irish water to the public in the form of an Interactive Public Studio
(IPS). ALL will disseminate their research to date while continuing to use the gallery as an open studio space
over a three day period, encouraging interaction and dialogue within the space.

Occupy Space at NCAD Gallery is open to the public for participation from 28 February – 3 March 2012.
* Presentations by Aoife Madden, Creative Limerick Coordinator and by Noelle Collins and Kevin O’Keeffe of Occupy Space on Tuesday 28 February, 12 – 3pm, NCAD Gallery
* Presentations by Creative Limerick Spaces; Faber Studios, The Raggle Taggle Consortium, Ormston House on Friday
2nd March 12pm – 3pm, NCAD Gallery

The Good Hatchery is an artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. In its
development, large portions of The Good Hatchery have been constructed from recycled artworks and
salvaged materials from the exhibitions that its members have been involved in throughout the years. Its
development is on-going. Through a series of collaborations, curated projects and free residencies it
challenges methodologies of contemporary art making and often investigates relationships between site and
resource.

A new installation, Good Hatchery, will be presented at NCAD Gallery. Opening view Monday 12th March 6-8pm.
Exhibition continues until 21st March 2012. * The Good Hatchery directors Karl Giffney and Ruth E.Lyons will host a
seminar on Thursday 29th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

BASIC SPACE located on Vicar Street, across the road from the NCAD Gallery has been running since
August 2010 and during this time has existed as a space for exhibitions and projects. For the duration of a
week BASIC SPACE shop will open at the NCAD Gallery. Mementoes from artworks and performances,
limited edition collectables and memorabilia from exhibitions, and the opportunity to be involved in “Sq Foot of
BASIC SPACE” scheme, will all be up for grabs. Avoiding romantisization of BASIC SPACE while outlining the
physical and ideological elements that structure the space, the visitor can ‘browse’ the shop, but will be
immediately involved in accumulating a knowledge of BASIC SPACE that is recognisably estranged from the
memorabilia.

* BASIC SPACE shop opening view Monday 26 March 6-9 pm, it is open to the public from 26 –30 March from 10am-9pm and remains in situ at NCAD Gallery from Thursday 22 March–Friday 13 April 2012.
BASIC SPACE Artist talk Wednesday 28th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.
* Refreshments & Discounts available on the opening view night.

In addition to work by the artist-led initiatives the exhibition programme includes The Artist-led Archive –

Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux open to the public to view by appointment at the National
Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library. The archive was initiated by the artist and curator
Megs Morley in 2006 as part of an on-going investigation into artist-led initiatives in Ireland. The project aimed
to decipher the kind of cultural conditions that led to artist-led initiative’s birth, their economic independence (or
lack of), their organizational structures and how all of these factors effected their activities and life spans.

For more information on The Artist-led Archive please see www.theartistledarchive.com.
*NIVAL is open Monday-Friday 10am– 5pm Contact: +353 (0)1 636 4347 or +353 (0)1 636 1102 and romanod@ncad.ie.
For more information on NIVAL please see www.nival.ie

To coincide with New Ecologies of Practice exhibition What Do You Stand For Now? is a public seminar
and discussion that looks at some artistic and curatorial practices from the last few decades in Ireland. In
particular, they all proposed methods and models of display and distribution as alternatives to established
mainstream and institutional practices. What Do You Stand For Now? is chaired by Francis Halsall and Vaari
Claffey, speakers include Valerie Connor; Mark Garry; Garrett Phelan; Sarah Pierce; members of The Enquiry,
Gradcam and others. What Do You Stand For Now? Saturday 31st March, 2012, 12.30-5pm at the National College

of Art and Design, (Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre), Dublin.

In currently redesigning its own provision, NCAD is an appropriate context in which to explore aspects of this
increasingly visible dynamic in the visual arts, as articulated in the NCAD Gallery space and the
accompanying events and discussions.

The National College of Art and Design Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
NCAD Gallery opening hours 10am–5pm, Monday-Saturday.