As our first online residency with Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse comes into it's final week we are announcing our return to IRL!

This doesn't mean our online programming will go quiet but we will be joyfully welcoming our audience and community back into the gallery space.

On Thursday June 3rd from 11am we will be opening our next exhibition: And, if we observe the present. The re-opening will coincide with the current lifting of restrictions and the launch of the Belfast Photo Festival that Catalyst Arts has partnered with for 2021. This project was realised with the support of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

And, if we observe the present blends unique approaches to photographic materiality, bringing a selection of media, installation and intervention to the Catalyst Arts Gallery.

Through an open call process, we asked artists who employ photography in their work to propose how the idea of a future can be visualised, predicted and prepared for. Four artists from across the island of Ireland were selected for their innovative interpretations of the theme: Kitsch Doom, Ben Malcomsom, Kate McElroy, and Dónal Talbot. Each of these artists' individual practices explore the medium's potential to expand and thrive in a multidisciplinary approach that utilises photography as a point of departure.

Their varying practices touch upon queer identity and experience, safe and reimagined space, decay and ruin, analogue and AI technologies. These concepts are collectively re-examined as narratives for possibility.

More information about upcoming events soon!