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Together


Catalyst Arts is proud to present Together, an exhibition that celebrates collaboration. Opening on Thursday 16th September Together brings for the first time to Belfast the works of Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman, Tommy Grace and Kate Owens, and Ortonandon.


These artists have individually and collaboratively questioned the traditional idea of an autonomous artistic practice. They have come together to present Together.


Jenny Hogarth & Kim Coleman have been working in collaboration since 2003. Their videos and performances play with the choreographed and the non-choreographed, exploiting the potential to create simple and enchanting illusions with video. Previous works include Staged produced by the Collective Gallery Edinburgh 2010 and Players, a Frieze Project for the Frieze Art Fair 2009 and Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth with the Boyle Family, Nought to Sixty ICA, London 2008.


Kate Owens & Tommy Grace first collaborated in 2005 and continue to do so when their individual practices overlap. For Together’s off-site project, a billboard on King Street, Owens and Grace are making a new work, which includes the billboard paster himself in their collaboration. Recent projects include Tommy Grace and Kate Owens at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh in 2007 and A Colour Box, Arcade, London 2008. In 2009 Kate Owens presented a solo show at Dicksmith Gallery, London. Her work has recently been shown as part of Altogether Elsewhere, Zoo 2009, London and The Mousetrap or Something old something new something borrowed something blue, in Galleria Tiziana di Caro, Italy. Tommy Grace was selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters, 2010 and presented a solo show Dummy, at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 2009. Both are founding members of the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh 2003.


Ortonandon is the group name of artists Anna, Sophie and Katie Orton. This is their first show working together and in November they are producing their second work for Ortonandon at the Intermedia Gallery Glasgow. Anna Orton has recently completed a Hospitalfield House Residency, 2010, and has shown in the Cupar Arts Festival, in 2009. Sophie Orton produced work for Black Spring at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2010 and is currently showing at Shop Window, Coup Red, Edinburgh. Katie Orton has shown in Magazine at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshops, 2010, and a solo show From Pillars to Pawns, at Annarumma 404, in Milan, 2009. Using rollerblades to create an interactive installation, the playful aesthetics and bold visual associations make this emerging group an exciting prospect.


Daniella Watson produced text in response to the show. Recent writing commissions include: Laura Lancaster and Katy Woods, International3, Manchester; Cosmetic - Tiffany Parbs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne and Craft ACT, Canberra Australia; The Edge of Things - David Mackintosh, Cornerhouse, Manchester. She has contributed to publications such as Untitled, The Skinny and Neu HQ. She is currently co-producer of the super site, Technocomplex that is due to launch in spring 2011.


Catalyst Arts was formed in Belfast 17 years ago as a non-profit and a members-based organisation, creating opportunities for emerging early career artists and as a catalyst to contempory art practises within Belfast and Northern Ireland.




Kim Coleman graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2001 and completed a MFA Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2008. She was a founding member of the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh in 2003 and is currently a LUX associate. She lives in London.


Jenny Hogarth graduated from Edinburgh College in 2000 and completed the MFA from The Glasgow School of Art in 2009. She was a founding member of the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh in 2003 and is currently a LUX associate. She lives in Edinburgh.


Anna Orton graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2007. She serviced as a director and chairperson of Generator Projects Dundee until 2009. She lives in Dundee


Sophie Orton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh in 2010. She lives in Edinburgh.


Katie Orton graduated from a BA/MFA from Edinburgh College of Art. She was the creator of ZUG fanzine, and is in the collection of Charles Saatchi and other national and international collectors. She served on the Embassy Gallery Committee from 2006- 2008. She lives in Edinburgh.


Tommy Grace graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002. He is a founding member of the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh. He is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh and was selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters in 2010. He lives in London.


Kate Owens graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 and completed an MA at The Royal College of Art, London in 2008. She was a founding member of the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh in 2003. She lives in London.


Daniella Watson is a writer and curator based in Edinburgh. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Manchester with a MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History. She was director of the All Year Round Club, Manchester in 2003- 2007 and the Embassy Gallery Edinburgh 2007-2009. She lives in Edinburgh.






The Project Space



The Project Space is pleased to present,

Philip McCrilly and David Mahon


Phillip and Davy make art


We have a collaborative practice, sort of. For the past year we shared a studio and found ourselves in some kind of synergy-art, it was hard to tell where Phillip’s work began and Davy’s work ended, sometimes. But that’s what happens when you force two people into a tiny space. This however will be the last time we work together directly for about a year (get me some tissues quick) as Phillip is going to Germany and Davy is staying put.


There are some things we like to work to with, authorship and ownership, the tragically mundane, pseudo kitsch items (could there be such a thing?), in-jokes and in-culture and not holding things in any great reverence. There are also some things we don’t like working with, like religious zealots and total wankers.


I guess what we’re trying to say is that whilst maintaining a relatively objective standpoint or gaze in the increasingly introspective and facile scene of emerging art and artists, we choose pastiche and forgery. A joke about an in-joke, a copy of a copy, both immediately real and simulated, it can be foolish and idiosyncratic, profound and pointless; substantial all at once, one at a time, or not all. Just depends if anyone’s there to notice it.





CATALYST PROJECT SPACE

A chance is part of a dynamic and exciting rolling programme for this new space.


The project space aims to give students a unique opportunity to curate and showcase their work at one of Belfast’s leading Galleries. Catalyst wants to give students the opportunity to work in a professional level with a leading art gallery in Belfast, feeding new ideas and interest into our organisation.