Cathy Fitzgerald

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

PhD by Practice – The Ecological Turn: Living Well with forests to explain eco-social art practices

I'm delighted to announce that this week I was conferred with a PhD by Practice in Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design at a ceremony at University College Dublin. There are so, so many people to thank and I'm delighted to start to share some of my practice and research, FINALLY!…Read more PhD by Practice – The Ecological Turn: Living Well with forests to explain eco-social art practices

The Hollywood Forest Story eBook- as featured in the Irish Times – is on iTunes

As featured in The Irish Times (Woodworth, 2020), The Hollywood Forest Story eBook is an illustrated account of the development and main method stages of my eco-social art practice that created The Hollywood Forest Story and developed through my blogging practice. The eBook details how I use action research as an accessible ecologically-orientated methodology for…Read more The Hollywood Forest Story eBook- as featured in the Irish Times – is on iTunes

How our trees have grown!!

How our trees have grown!!, originally uploaded by CathyArt. We've found an old photo of our place from around 2000-1 (it was the night after our 'field-warming' party, before we got the mobile home. The mountain was quite cleary visible then but only 7 years later and the trees have been acting like triffids as…Read more How our trees have grown!!