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  • about
    • About Cathy Fitzgerald’s work
    • biography
    • Site Archive: see all posts
    • privacy statement
  • news | blog
  • 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
  • all work by cathy fitzgerald
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| eco-social art practitioner | researcher | forests I explore new ideas and practices for eco-social well being. In my creative practice, I bring art and non-art practices (science, ecology, new ecoforestry practices) together to explore an alternative to unsustainable clearfell monoculture forestry. Undertaking an art practice-led PhD in recent years, I have developed a guiding theory-method framework to improve understanding of the value and potential of long-term eco-social art practices that are embedded in communities. I am also developing cultural policy research to foster public awareness that the art sector has a key role to engage communities in sustainable living. At an international cultural policy level, UNESCO, IFACCA and others recognise culture is the under-acknowledged 4th pillar to promote sustainability. Culture has immense social power to engage communities in sustainability that is unavailable to science.

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

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

OPEN WINDOW: Leukemia Ward, St James hospital 2007

THE LOCAL PROJECT REVISITED 2006: Crann Leitrim exhbition, The Dock

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

ONLINE PASSION SURVEY: are there genes for passion and joy? NCAD MA Degree Show, Hugh Lane Gallery 2002; TCD 2004, 2005; RCSI 2004; Greyfriars Gallery, Waterford

“IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE”: Valand Art College Gothenberg (2001) MA art placement. Drawings exhibited Zoology Dept, TCD 2004; RCSI, 2004

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