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  • about
    • About Cathy Fitzgerald’s work
    • biography
    • Site Archive: see all posts
    • privacy statement
  • news | blog
  • The Hollywood Forest Story
    • 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 canine collaborator RIP
  • talks | writings
  • all work by cathy fitzgerald
    • archive
  • Contact me
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other work by cathy fitzgerald

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

My most well known and ongoing eco-social art practice is The Hollywood Forest Story, begun in 2008. This work builds audience engagement using blogging and other social media to share the experiential and aesthetic qualities, and the real-world practice of transforming a monoculture tree plantation using new-to-Ireland continuous cover forestry practices in the small forest in which I live into a permanent, species-rich forest. In dialogue with leading Irish and European continuous cover foresters, policy-makers, philosophers, environmental writers, and members of my community, I communicate a new story of Ireland’s move to ecological forestry at http://www.hollywoodforest.com.

In 2019, I was awarded a feasibility study grant from the Carlow Enterprise Board and a Carlow Arts Office Award to develop an innovative online course, and seminars, on essential ecoliteracy for creative workers. In recognition of growing up in beautiful inspiring Aotearoa New Zealand, I am developing these courses under the name of Haumea, the name of the earth goddess of the Pacific, see www.haumea.site

2019 Haumea Online Ecoliteracy for the Arts

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

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 eco-social 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

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

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

CRANN IRISH HEDGEROW & RARE TREE CALENDAR 1997: ESB Environmental Endeavour Award for project involvement 1998

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