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Skip to content
  • about
    • About Cathy Fitzgerald’s work
    • biography
    • Site Archive: see all posts
    • privacy statement
  • The Hollywood Forest Story
    • Artists statement
    • All posts on the Hollywood Forest Story
    • history from 2008
    • The Hollywood Forest Story eBook – featured in The Irish Times – now on iTunes
    • PhD by Practice thesis: ‘The Ecological Turn…’
    • Holly – our first canine collaborator RIP
    • talks | writings
  • Ecological Art & Writing Archive
  • news | blog
    • blog archive
  • Search Site
  • Contact Cathy Fitzgerald

art and ecology

Dr Cathy Fitzgerald, BA Fine Art (Hons), Visual Culture PhD by Practice | ecological (ecosocial( art practitioner | researcher | educator Ecological artist-educator-researcher, Dr Cathy Fitzgerald is an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural Carlow for the past 20 years. With a former background in research science, since the late 1990s Cathy has been inspired by the transformative social power of creative-led, embedded-in-place ecological art practices to inclusively inspire diverse communities to creatively envision more beautiful, just, equitable and sustainable futures. In recent years, Cathy has built on ongoing creative-led forest and wetland community restoration practices (Hollywoodforest.com; DrumminBog.com), and reviewed advances in international ecological art practice research for her PhD: ‘The Ecological Turn’ (NCAD, 2018). All through her university art education, Cathy strove to connect ecological understanding to her creativity to inspire diverse audiences that science, politics and the media often fail to achieve. In recent years as a popular educator, she passionately advocates that ecoliterate cultural activity has crucial ways to inclusively engage others to work for collective, planetary and intergenerational wellbeing. Since 2019, Cathy has been deeply committed to developing the popular online Haumea Ecoversity.ie with her colleague philosopher Dr Nikos Patedakis (California). Together they work to support and upskill mid-career creatives and cultural professionals working in all art fields, including literature and poetry, to cultivate essential ecoliteracy – the ecological vision, values and practices of wellbeing needed by the creative sector to promote, inspire and sustain an immense cultural shift to a better world.
Hollywood, ‘the little wood that could’ is a small 2-acre Close-to-Nature continuous cover forest growing under the Blackstairs Mountains, in South County Carlow, Ireland. Photo: Martin Lyttle

THE HOLLYWOOD FOREST STORY – ONGOING SINCE 2008: An eco-social art practice and doctoral research for forests and the art & ecology field

RADIO | PODCAST | FILM | INTERVIEWS WITH CATHY FITZGERALD

2022-23 worked with Dublin-based curator-in-residence Shannon Carroll for a rich new ecological artist interview resource for Irish teachers: ‘Speaking of Which II- The Ecological Edition’

2021 CHAPTER in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PLACEMAKING on ‘The Hollywood Forest Story: Placemaking for the Symbiocence

2004-2020 IRISH TIMES interviews with Cathy Fitzgerald

HETEROPTERA by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger: A Carlow Visualise exhibition curated by Cathy Fitzgerald, 2005

UNWANTED GENES ON A DNA SPIRAL 2004: Image featured in Irish Times

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