Mother of Pearl: Catalyst Arts at 30

Fionnuala Doran; Johanna Leech; Sandra Johnston; Dan Shipsides; Séamus  Harahan; Fiona Ní Mhaoilir; Kim Montgomery; Alice Clarke; Nathan Crothers; Rob Hilken; Joey  O'Gorman; Edy Fung; Jen  Alexander; Cecilia Graham; Dominic McKeown; Rachael Melvin; Husk Bennett; Siliva Koistinen; Seán Ward; Emma Quin; Samar Nezamabad

Mother of Pearl: Catalyst Arts at 30

Fionnuala Doran, Johanna Leech, Sandra Johnston, Dan Shipsides, Séamus Harahan, Fiona Ní Mhaoilir , Kim Montgomery, Alice Clarke, Nathan Crothers, Rob Hilken, Joey O'Gorman, Edy Fung, Jen Alexander, Cecilia Graham, Dominic McKeown, Rachael Melvin, Husk Bennett, Siliva Koistinen, Seán Ward, Emma QuinSamar Nezamabad

Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Abstract

Many hands have supported and shaped Catalyst Arts since 1993, with over 100 co-directors and 1000 artists having worked / lived / experienced / been a part of the journey. From small gestures of driving, to helicopter journeys, busses, skips, and boats, Catalyst Arts has and continues to influence the visual landscapes we work inside and around.

‘Mother of pearl’ publication collects the musings, scribbles, scratches, images, memories, maps, poems, and prose of 21 directors of Catalyst Arts (both past and current), alongside 9 archival images and ephemera; 30 pages skimming & waxing lyrical across love and marriage, dogs, fires, grief, red wine and cigarettes, bodily time-spaces, topless sunbathing, home, infamy, crying, blood, and ladders. A shocking lack of mentions of art - but there’s always art, apparently.

Contributions from (chronologically in order of directorship); Sandra Johnston / Dan Shipsides / Séamus Harahan / Fiona Ní Mhaoilir / Kim Montgomery / Johanna Leech / Fionnuala Doran / Alice Clark / Nathan Crothers / Rob Hilken / Joey O'Gorman / Edy Fung / Jen Alexander / Cecelia Graham / Dominic McKeown / Rachael Melvin / Husk Bennett / Silvia Koistinen / Seán Ward / Emma Quin / Samar Nezamabad

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Belfast
Publisher	Catalyst Arts
Media of output	Print
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2024
Event	Mother of Pearl Publication Launch - Catalyst Arts, 6 Joy's Entry, Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Aug 2024 → 1 Aug 2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/C-IBw2wIAEc/?img_index=1

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

artists book
artists books
Northern Ireland
artists' book
artist collectives
archives
archival activism

Type (for Non-textual outputs)

Photograph

2 Artefact
2 Exhibition

Spence Brothers: The Men and their Movies
Doran, F., Martin, M., Hackett, S. & Friers, R., 6 Nov 2021
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
The Animals of Funningdale Woods
Doran, F., 4 Nov 2021
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Tilt: [at Windmills]
Doran, F., Räsänen, J., Moore, P., Price, R. & Schuppert, M., 2 Oct 2021
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

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Mother of Pearl: Catalyst Arts at 30

Abstract

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Research output

Spence Brothers: The Men and their Movies

The Animals of Funningdale Woods

Tilt: [at Windmills]

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