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O U T | T U O

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O U T | T U O

17 January  – 7 February 2013

Exhibiting Artists : Niall de Buitléar | Erin Doherty | Clodagh Emoe | Helena Hamilton | Peter Marley

OUT|TUO is an exhibition that will showcase work by five selected artists who use their work as a way of enquiry into the abstract nature of human thought. Working in an ephemeral nature these artists explore their inner workings that are made accessible to the external world, often in an engaging manner.

O U T | T U O | Workshop events

Tuesday 22nd January | Goal Setting

12:00 – 13:00 Fergal O’Malley from VAI will give a talk about the transition between student and artist
13:15 – 15:00 Personal Planning and Action Plans – with Catalyst Arts director’s Alice Clark & Katrina Sheena Smyth

Wednesday 23rd January | Artist Tools

12:00 – 13:00 Brendan O’ Neill from QSS will give a talk on his experience in receiving artist submissions for
exhibitions. Followed by a presentation on the handling and transportation of artwork.

13:15 – 14:00 Professional tools that support our practice with Catalyst Arts director Katrina Sheena Smyth

14:00 – 14:45 How to write an Artist Proposal with Catalyst Arts director Alissa Kleist and Amy Brooks

                                                                                                                       15:00 – 16:00 The importance of promoting your practice with Catalyst Arts director’s Rob Hilken & Ruaidhri Lennon

Thursday 24th January | Building Art Relationships 

12:00 – 13:00 The importance of volunteering and being involved in the arts with past-director of Catalyst Arts Deirdre McKenna.

13:15 – 13:45 Iain Griffin will talk about his experience gained from working on Art Magazine Critical Bastards

13:45 – 14:15 Anthony Champa will give a talk about the experience of running Array Studios
14:30 -16:00 – Katrina Sheena Smyth will give a brief talk about the OUT|TUO exhibition followed by a screening of
Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present

Thursday 31st January | 18:00 – 19:30 | Participatory Performance Art Workshop with Brian Patterson 

This workshop will introduce aspects of intention, what is the place of intention in performance art in general and particularly in respect to improvisational or process work? Individually, what are our main intentions and collectively can there be any unifying intentions behind improvisational or process work?

Thursday 31st January | 18:00 – 19:30 | Psychic Sleep and Collective Thought with Clodagh Emoe

Clodagh Emoe will give a lecture on Psychic Sleep and Collective Thought.

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

∆ 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

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¿@#!*$ (Comics Show)

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 ¿@#!*$ (Comic Show)

List of artists: Simone Lia / Phil Barrett / Fionnuala Dorn / Malcy Duff / Chris Ware / Travis Millard / Tom Gauld Audience numbers:

Absence Launch Party Thursday 21t April – Local artists andy Luke and Stephen Downey (Cancertown, Slaughterman’s creed) launch their latest work ‘Absence’

Secret Cinema

Comic Zine Fair 23rd April

 

Pretty Circus presents ‘Live music and Live drawing’ Sunday 1st May

Members Show, Divine Creation

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Divine Creation

Catalyst Arts’ Annual Members Show

Catalyst Arts would like to invite all members to submit work for the 2011 members exhibition, scheduled to open on 17th February and centred upon the notion of ‘Divine Creation’.

Each member is eligible to submit one piece of work in any medium, but we would ask that members take into consideration the large amount of submissions annually received, all to be displayed in the gallery, and to tailor the scale of the work accordingly.

Annual membership for 2011 is £20 waged / £10 unwaged, and new members may pay this when submitting their work or through Paypal on our website (www.oldcatalystarts.hilken.co.uk).

Deadline for submission: 5p.m. Thursday 10th February.

Work may be submitted in person from 8th-10th February from 11am-5pm or via post or email (catalystarts@gmail.com).

Switched

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Switched

Date: 2 September 2010

Adrian Duncan & Fiona Marron

Of Process

Both artists’ current work takes, as its shared root, physical, speculative and necessary human activities, which are used as tools for investigating other, less tactile, human activities and processes. These physical activities reveal a process that is used to view the less tactile processes from a different angle. Duncan and Marron share an interest in addressing the complications inherent in attempting to define such an abstract topic. In the manifestation of these ideas, metaphors are introduced that provoke thought and enquiry into our claims to knowledge.
Duncan’s work overlays everyday empirical investigative activities upon less obvious processes of measurement. His work at first illustrates the flaws in this scientific method (the problem with induction, statics, etc.), particularly when applied to dynamic systems. The work attempts to marry one method of measurement with another seemingly incomapatible system, and from this, investigating how institutional structures are formed and changed. This is done with reference to Popper’s Objective Knowledge.
In her sculpture and video installation Marron pursues her interests in the relationships between labour, knowledge and value, using the mining industry as a model. Combining appropriated text from sociologist Alvin Gouldner’s 1954 field report of an American gypsum plant and footage from the realms of production at a present-day Irish mine, Marron examines the ‘many standpoints in terms of which the raw data of factory life can be ordered and made meaningful.’ (Gouldner 1954)
Adrian Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer in the UK and Ireland for over a decade before returning to study fine art at IADT. His practice is based in sculpture/installation, video, writing and drawing. He has exhibited at Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Joinery and The Lewis Glucksman, UCC. He is assistant editor of Paper Visual Art to which he also contributes. Fiona Marron was born in Co. Monaghan in 1987 and graduated from Fine Art at Dublin Institute of Technology last year. She has had solo exhibitions at The Joinery, Dublin (2010) & FOUR gallery, Dublin (2009). She has participated in many group shows including Reverse Pedagogy III, a residency and exhibition hosted by The Model, Sligo (2009).