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February 12, 2018February 12, 2023 about, Art & Ecology opportunities, art and ecology film, art and ecology theory, Cathy's work, Close to Nature continuous cover forest management, Irish Times art & ecology Cathy Fitzgerald Cathy Fitzgerald's Ecological Art & Writing Archive ecological art practice experimental film Forest management forests Ireland Irish Times

The Hollywood Forest Story eBook- as featured in the Irish Times – is on iTunes

As featured in The Irish Times (Woodworth, 2020), The Hollywood Forest Story eBook is an illustrated account of the development and main method stages of my eco-social art practice that created The Hollywood Forest Story and developed through my blogging practice. The eBook details how I use action research as an accessible ecologically-orientated methodology for…Read more The Hollywood Forest Story eBook- as featured in the Irish Times – is on iTunes

November 21, 2008July 11, 2019 Art & Ecology opportunities, art and ecology, art and environment, Art communication, artandsustainabilitypolicy, Community environment projects, Environmental artist, Environmental Communication, International, UK 1 Comment Arts & Ecology Radical Nature RSA TJ Demos

The retrospective Radical Nature exhibition was supported by the RSA Art & Ecology programme and hosted Prof TJ Demos' first writings on the topic in 2009. I spent two days at the exhibition as it was so rare to see such work on display at the time.

Congratulations to RSA’s new art & ecology international site

Update 2010: Unfortunately after the collapse of the 2009 UN Climate Change Summit and the cutbacks to the arts after the 2008 crash, the UK RSA Art & Ecology programme was discontinued. It wasa huge loss for those in Britain and Ireland just beginning to establish work in this area. The RSA ran the…Read more Congratulations to RSA’s new art & ecology international site

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Dr Cathy Fitzgerald practices ecological art as a practitioner, educator, blogger and researcher. She is an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural Ireland, the home of her ancestors. Since the mid-90s, her work with the pioneering Irish forest NGO Crann, then later with ProSIlva Ireland (2009-2023) inspired her long interest in the developing art and ecology field.

Over time, Cathy recognised the enormous cultural shift an ecological worldview represents to education and for the creative sector in particular. An informed ecoliterate creative sector will have a crucial role to inspire communities to live well with others and their environments. Importantly, Creativity has inclusive and imaginative means to explore new expansive values for living sustainably that science and politics are failing to achieve.

Cathy's expertise as an educator and mentor arises from firsthand experiences: having a prior background in science; overcoming the learning and practical challenges in developing an internationally recognised and rewarding ecological art practice (her ongoing creative forest restoration practice Hollywoodforest.com); reviewing ecological art practice research in detail for her practice-led PhD, and her considerable experience in professional development for all art forms as the inaugural ArtLinks Director for the SE County Arts Offices (2007-2010).

In addition, Cathy is an accredited sustainability-systems educator, having completed the UNESCO-recognised ESD (education for sustainable development)-Earth Charter programme in 2021, enabled by an Irish Arts Council 2020 Professional Development Award.

Since her PhD, Cathy has developed considerable experience in training over 150 mid-career creatives from Ireland and abroad in all creative fields, in transformative ecological literacy (ecoliteracy) and integrated ecosocial values courses through her unique online Haumea Ecoversity. Given the urgency of responding to the ecological emergency (to addressing environmental and social concerns), ecoliteracy training is essential to empower, inform and guide creative workers, curators, and cultural policy writers in becoming fluent in the values, ideas and actions needed to advance broader concepts of personal, collective and planetary wellbeing. Cathy also enjoys one-to-one mentoring.

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Founder-Director: Haumea Ecoversity Community since 2019
Member of the: International EcoArt Network
Member of Pro Silva (for forests) Ireland
Member of the: International Climate Cultures Network
Member of BurrenBeoTrust
Ecoliteracy Advisor/ Ecological Artist: CREATIVE DRUMMIN Bog programme since 2017 – DRUIMÍN CHRUTHAITHEACH
Ecoliteracy Ecological Art Mentor: Glenbower Wood This/Our Project 2025, Killeagh, East Cork

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