'And, so if we observe the present'
Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast
As part of Future(s), Belfast Photo Festival
June - July
2021
And, if we observe the present--
'sensing, what is peripheral? Walking around with a friend, eyes lowered whilst
speaking, some weeds where the pavement meets walls, some new student halls unpeeled
from scaffolding, the looping grid of grey metal fences. The multiplying of ‘s’, the letter added
onto the end of most words, sheets of paper to be seen through from different angles, lines
changed as the layers etch into each other, blurred like the filament in a lightbulb as it warms
to a glow.
What word is an image? Think Catalytic the movement of building around us, the splay of
pages in a book, the apartments of future tenses. The swerve of light leaked onto 35mm film
where a document becomes memory, becomes ominous, becomes multitudes. When
‘multiplicity undermines the order of the system,’ what word is an image? Vulnerability brims
in eruptions of colour, and then we photocopy into near oblivion.
The loss of something we’re not quite aware of, Stacked, Mis-placed, Erased. The lines we
take for granted, in words hushed at the corners of pillows and streets, the often discarded
and overlooked, irrational feelings, mis-aligned with the images before us. The crumble of
stones on our hands as we push up off the ground.'
(Catalytic, A Swarming Change, print on transparent paper, Stacked, Mis-placed, Erased,
35mm multiple exposure photographs, photocopied and printed on transparent paper, Lines,
Lined, Mis-aligned, handmade artist book, photographs on transparent paper, Kate McElroy)
Text by Lucie McLaughlin
Commisioned by Catalyst Arts as part of Belfast Photo Festival
'sensing, what is peripheral? Walking around with a friend, eyes lowered whilst
speaking, some weeds where the pavement meets walls, some new student halls unpeeled
from scaffolding, the looping grid of grey metal fences. The multiplying of ‘s’, the letter added
onto the end of most words, sheets of paper to be seen through from different angles, lines
changed as the layers etch into each other, blurred like the filament in a lightbulb as it warms
to a glow.
What word is an image? Think Catalytic the movement of building around us, the splay of
pages in a book, the apartments of future tenses. The swerve of light leaked onto 35mm film
where a document becomes memory, becomes ominous, becomes multitudes. When
‘multiplicity undermines the order of the system,’ what word is an image? Vulnerability brims
in eruptions of colour, and then we photocopy into near oblivion.
The loss of something we’re not quite aware of, Stacked, Mis-placed, Erased. The lines we
take for granted, in words hushed at the corners of pillows and streets, the often discarded
and overlooked, irrational feelings, mis-aligned with the images before us. The crumble of
stones on our hands as we push up off the ground.'
(Catalytic, A Swarming Change, print on transparent paper, Stacked, Mis-placed, Erased,
35mm multiple exposure photographs, photocopied and printed on transparent paper, Lines,
Lined, Mis-aligned, handmade artist book, photographs on transparent paper, Kate McElroy)
Text by Lucie McLaughlin
Commisioned by Catalyst Arts as part of Belfast Photo Festival
'Inter_site' Marina Market, Cork City
Lighting provided by Timpeall Collective
June 2021
INTER_SITE is a newly formed artist collective based in Cork City established by Padraic Barrett, Deirdre Breen, Aoife Claffey and Kate McElroy. Responding to the precarious and ever shifting nature of our current reality, we create interventions and exhibitions, utilising unique venues and display mechanisms.
Our work responds to the current environmental, political and social climate. Each artist employs a multi-disciplinary approach responding to the specific sites we encounter, enhancing the viewer's experience of place with an emphasis on spatial and sensory effects. The work speculates on alternative and imaginative spaces that present to the viewer embodied encounters and altered viewpoints.
We aim to embed art into the fabric of the everyday, using art as a tool to probe and question current societal systems and structures of power.
'A soft rupture'
GOMA, Waterford City
July - August
2021
'COM,MA'
Masters Degree Show
46 Grand Parade, Cork City
2020
Materials that include glass, aluminium, and stainless steel, that possess an innate reflective quality, are layered and anchored with threaded rod to the walls. The materials still bear the marks and stains that allude to a former purpose. Now there is a new use-value; becoming something else. These layers mimic the photographic lens capturing the ambient reflections as well as the reflection of the viewer. Holding it for a fleeting moment, this time unrecorded, existing only for the moment of its happening.
The artist is attempting to contain a temporality that is personified by impermanence and change. A constant rotation that sees probability on the cusp of a transitory present dissolving into remembrance.
Extract from essay by Artist Joe Fogarty
The artist is attempting to contain a temporality that is personified by impermanence and change. A constant rotation that sees probability on the cusp of a transitory present dissolving into remembrance.
Extract from essay by Artist Joe Fogarty
