Category: Current Directors

Emma Brennan

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Emma Brennan is a visual artist and curator between Dublin and Belfast. She graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2016. Curating and exhibiting in numerous group and solo shows during her time there, she has also participated in a number of live art festivals including Livestock and the Dublin Live art Festival, as well as curating the inaugural NCAD Live Graduate Performance Showcase in 2016. In 2018 she was awarded the role of the resident artist of the Draoicht, Blanchardstown on the back of which she featured work in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018.

 

Leah Corbett

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Catalyst Arts would like to welcome new Co-Director Leah Corbett to the board. We look forward to working with her over the next two years.

Leah Corbett is an artist from Tipperary, currently based in Belfast. In 2016 she graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design and was subsequently awarded the CIT Arts Fest Prize and the Ciaran Langford Memorial Bursary. Since then she has continued to exhibit her work as well as participating in socially engaged projects including Public! (2017) and Common Ground (2018/19.) Most recently she was awarded the Tipperary Arts Office Residency Award 2018 and is working on a community based project to be presented in 2019. She has previously worked with arts organisations such as CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery and Tactic Cork before taking on her current role as co-director of Catalyst Arts.

Anne Mager

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Catalyst Arts would like to welcome new Co-Director Anne Mager to the board. We look forward to working with her over the next two years.

Anne Mager works as a curator, arts manager, university lecturer and author. She organizes and realizes exhibitions, festivals and cultural events and holds a Master degree from the University of Münster, Germany in Communication Science, Art History and Cultural Studies as well as a Master in International Arts Management from the Art Academies in Cologne and Düsseldorf.
As a curator she focuses on site specific multimedia arts installations and the topics of borders and social change. She managed the interdivisional arts festival ‘new talents – biennale cologne’ from 2008 until 2017 and worked for a variety of other projects and institutions such as the exhibition program at Quartier am Hafen Cologne in 2013, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Fuhrwerkswerkswaage Kunstraum, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and Kunsthaus NRW. In 2016 she moved to Ireland and initiated the ongoing interdisciplinary project series “the corridor“ in Belfast, Dundalk and Dublin.

Edy Fung

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Edy Fung (b. 1989 Los Angeles, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who experiments with installation, video, digital image, sound and text. Her work explores both ends of the spectrum of the human civilisation – appropriating the leftovers of past mythologies and alternate histories as well as speculating the societal changes implied by the latest cultural and technological shifts.
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She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art where she focused on the expanded field of architecture. She has practised in London, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Hong Kong before moving to Northern Ireland.
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Liam McCartan

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Liam McCartan is currently a PhD student in the Sonic Arts Research Centre of Queen’s University Belfast. His research concerns the borders, bridges and practices of experimental electronic music. In regards to his own practice, it consists of composition, performance, sound art and design that explores the concepts of genre deconstruction and sonic history. This work has been presented in concert halls, clubs, galleries, specialist-acoustic spaces, theatres, fashion shows, and contemporary music festivals. Liam is also an Organiser, Resident, and Writer of the Belfast ’club-art hybrid’ event/collective RESIST, which fuses avant-garde electronic music performances and immersive visual art of a digital aesthetic.

Peter Glasgow

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Peter Glasgow (b. 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Belfast.  He studied at Wimbledon College of Art and the Royal College of Art where he completed his MA in 2015.  He was selected to be part of Catalyst Arts Student and Recent Graduate Show “Very Good Waves Now” in 2016.  Recent exhibitions include “Laboratory of Dark Matters”, a group residency at Guest Projects London, and “It’s not the digging, it’s the dirt”, a programme of live work broadcast as part of Art Licks Weekend 2016.

 

 

 

 

Siobhán Kelly

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Siobhán Kelly graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a BFA in Sculpture and Visual Culture. Her practice is based in performance, installation and collaboration. She is a current member of Vault Artist Studios and recipient of the 2018 SIAP award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.