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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
  • archive
  • Contact me
  • Search Site

other work by cathy fitzgerald

| 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.

2022 THE HOLLYWOOD FOREST STORY – now showcased in Scotland’s Library of CREATIVE SUSTAINABILITY

THE HOLLYWOOD FOREST STORY features in award-winning ‘Earth Writings: Bogs, Fields, Forests, Garden, 2020

2019 ‘GOODBYE ANTHROPOCENE – HELLO SYMBIOCENE’ article published in PLASTICITY – THE GLOBAL READER book by Centre for Contemporary Art U-jazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

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

WRITINGS ON: Art and Sustainability, the Anthropocene, the Symbiocene, Forests, Ecocide, Hannah Arendt and Ecopornography

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

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

A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE: Art Council art-science Residency, Zoology Dept, TCD, 2003-2005

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

THE LAST FRONTIER: NCAD Fine Art BA 1st Class Honours Degree Exhibition 2000, RHA Gallery, Dublin

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