Catalyst Arts AGM Wednesday 10th April 2019

We would like to warmly invite all Catalyst Arts Members to our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 10th April 2019 at 6pm at the gallery; 5 College Court, BT1 6BS.

Please find below an Agenda detailing the general nature of the business to be transacted.

We want to have the broadest range of opinions possible and so would greatly appreciate your attendance.

We would like to remind members that they are entitled to appoint another person as their proxy to exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote at a meeting of the company under section 324 of the Companies Act (2006). If this is the case please notify us by email ahead of the AGM.

Please note – this is for Catalyst Arts Members only. 

To confirm your attendance, or for any questions, please contact us at catalystarts@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Catalyst Arts Annual General Meeting 10/04/19

Agenda

Opening remarks/welcome

Apologies

Minutes of previous AGM

Matters arising from the minutes

Presentation of annual report (Chair)

Election of management committee/office bearers

Presentation of accounts (Treasurer)

Summary of previous programming

Summary of future programming

PR and Membership

Archive Report

Update on Premises

Any Other Business

Closing remarks

Light refreshments will be provided.

Graduate Award Show – Lykke Sønderkær – Connecting Body

Opening – 27th March 2019, 6 until 9pm
Exhibition continues until 4th April 2019
Performance – 28th March to 3rd April 2019, 2pm daily

Catalyst Arts is proud to present Connecting Body: 7 Days of Practising Transformation and Preservation in a White Cube, a solo exhibition of new work by Belfast-based Danish artist Lykke Sønderkær from 28th March to 4th April 2019.

Connecting Body: 7 Days of Practising Transformation and Preservation in a White Cube takes the form of a time-based exhibition crossing modes of representation between site-specific intervention, live performance and archival art. Each day for a duration of seven consecutive days, Sønderkær creates a performance as a ritual bridging the connections between human body and organic materiality with spatial character of the gallery. Exploring the symbolic idea of Four Elements, Sønderkær seeks to discover our sensual awareness of the physical world and beyond.

Daily performances are captured, recorded and displayed in the immediate environment alongside the following ephemeral art to be unfolded in space. As the space accumulates performances and nourishes a body of archive leading up to the Eighth and final day, the exhibition presents itself as a state of oneness, preserving all directions of time and encompassing all interconnected frozen moments and material resonance.

Lykke Sønderkær was born in 1993 in Copenhagen. Always having pursued art, she traveled to Scotland in 2014 to study Art and Contemporary Practice and Philosophy at Dundee University. She recently graduated from Ulster University in Fine Art where she was shortlisted for RDS Visual Awards 2018 for her performance work. Recent shows include solo exhibition at Pollen Studios and Gallery; group show at MART Gallery, Vaults Art Studio, RDS Dublin and Engine Room Gallery Belfast.

New Director | Emma Brennan

Catalyst Arts would like to welcome new Co-Director Emma Brennan to the board.

Emma Brennan is a visual artist and curator between Dublin and Belfast. She graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2016. Curating and exhibiting in numerous group and solo shows during her time there, she has also participated in a number of live art festivals including Livestock and the Dublin Live art Festival, as well as curating the inaugural NCAD Live Graduate Performance Showcase in 2016. In 2018 she was awarded the role of the resident artist of the Draoicht, Blanchardstown on the back of which she featured work in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018.

New Director | Leah Corbett

Catalyst Arts would like to welcome new Co-Director Leah Corbett to the board.

Leah Corbett is an artist from Tipperary, currently based in Belfast. In 2016 she graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design and was subsequently awarded the CIT Arts Fest Prize and the Ciaran Langford Memorial Bursary. Since then she has continued to exhibit her work as well as participating in socially engaged projects including Public! (2017) and Common Ground (2018/19.) Most recently she was awarded the Tipperary Arts Office Residency Award 2018 and is working on a community based project to be presented in 2019. She has previously worked with arts organisations such as CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery and Tactic Cork before taking on her current role as co-director of Catalyst Arts.