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  • 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
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    • blog archive
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  • Contact Cathy Fitzgerald

Cathy Fitzgerald's Ecological Art & Writing Archive

ARCHIVE OF CATHY FITZGERALD’S PROJECTS, PUBLICATIONS, COLLABORATIONS FROM MID-1990s ONWARDS:

Dr Cathy Fitzgerald, BA Fine Art (Hons), Visual Culture PhD by Practice
ecological (eco-social) art practitioner | researcher | educator

Ecological artist-educator-researcher, Dr Cathy Fitzgerald is an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural Carlow for the past 25 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 –THE HOLLYWOOD FOREST STORY (DETAILED ON THIS SITE), and CREATIVE DRUMMIN for The Drummin Bog Project (DrumminBog.com), and reviewed advances in international ecological art practice research for her PhD: ‘The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests To Articulate Eco-Social Art Practices Using a Guattari Ecosophy and Action Research Framework ‘ (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 is crucial to inclusively engage others to work for collective, planetary and intergenerational wellbeing.

In line with this view, since 2019 Cathy has been deeply committed to developing the popular online Haumea Ecoversity.ie with her ecological-aesthetic-orientated colleague, philosopher Dr Nikos Patedakis (DangerousWisdom.org, California).

Together at Haumea Ecoversity, Cathy and Nikos 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

2019 – ONGOING: pioneered the popular and unique ecoliteracy training online courses for creatives and cultural professionals at the HAUMEA ECOVERSITY, with philosopher Dr Nikos Patedakis (California) initially supported by the Carlow Local Enterprise Office and the Carlow Arts Office

RADIO | PODCAST | FILM | INTERVIEWS WITH CATHY FITZGERALD

INCREASING BIODIVERSITY – THE FLORA AND FAUNA at Hollywood Forest

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’

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

2022 ‘A FRAMEWORK FOR ECOSOCIAL ART PRACTICE’ referencing The Hollywood Forest Story ecological art practice is included in the landmark ‘EcoArt in Action’ book, produced over 5 years by the international professional EcoArt network

‘The Hollywood Forest Story’ is described as an Ecosophical Practice in the Routledge Book, ‘Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place: Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies’ – edited by Dr Iain Biggs and Prof Mary Modeen

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

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS BY & ABOUT CATHY FITZGERALD’S work

2004-2020 IRISH TIMES interviews with Cathy Fitzgerald

2020: An invitation to talk WENDELL BERRY’S forest text ‘A GOOD FOREST ECONOMY’ (1995) which has long inspired my ongoing Hollywood Forest Story ecological art practice – for the 2020 Dock Art Centre ‘Whose Woods These Are’ for a 3-day online Tree TV festival

THE HOLLYWOOD FOREST STORY features in award-winning ‘Earth Writings: Bogs, Fields, Forests, Garden’, 2020 book, edited by Prof. Karen E. Till, INTERVIEW with Dr Nessa Cronin NUIG

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

PhD by Practice: eBook and thesis ‘Living Well with a Forest to articulate eco-social art practice using Guattari’s Ecosophy and Action Research (2018)

Video essays on Hollywood forest’s transformation 2008 onwards plus posts on ecocinema and ecocriticism

What is an ecosocial art practice?

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

Irish Art and sustainability policy research from 2015 onwards

Drummin Bog, South Carlow: Sharing Eco-Social Art Practice expertise since 2017

Ecocide is a Crime: Why I am an artist against ecocide

Joanna Macy: The Hollywood Forest Story selected for ‘Stories of the Great Turning’ (2013)

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

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

First work in Ireland: for CRANN IRISH LOCAL PROJECT – Crann HEDGEROW & RARE TREE CALENDAR 1997: ESB Environmental Endeavour Award for project involvement 1998

ART & SCIENCE WORK: 2000-06

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

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