We are so honoured to have had support from the wonderful María del Buey over the past months. María has been an amazing help at Catalyst during busy funding periods and event programmes. We’ve learnt so much from María’s time and hard work at Catalyst, and thank her endlessly for sharing her knowledge with us.

As María moves onto greener pastures, we look forward to seeing what she gets up to next and wish her the very best in future endeavours.

María del Buey is a Spanish artist based in Ireland since 2018, and she recently completed the MFA Art in the Contemporary World, run by NCAD. Her art practice engages space as the primordial element in the production of her work, being also the gravitational point around which to reflect and experiment with possible and desirable landscapes of existence. Del Buey mostly works with sound and digital image, and uses writing to experiment with speculative horizons of experience, focusing on the creation of speculative spaces - textual, sonic, or visual spaces - from where to imagine new spatial agencies, or orientation techniques. As a foreign and displaced element to different urban landscapes, her art practice attempts to go unnoticed within them, avoiding to step out from the background. Based on the belief that the space - urban space, academic space, affect space - is the basic condition to any kind of agency - social agency, artistic agency, political agency - her work tries to encapsulate the dichotomy between what happens inside the studio, and what can be found beyond it.

She has exhibited her work at Ormston House in Limerick, at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin, and at MediaLab Prado in Madrid, among others. She is a regular collaborator and member of the Spanish Association of Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music of Spain (AMEE).