✩ About

Digital artist, poet and songwriter—Cat Catalyst, seamlessly blends multimodal art forms to create visionary fusions that serve as an invitation to bridge heart, mind and Source. Through the processes of autoethnography, autotheory, and self-archival, Cat has collated three decades of noetic content into a hybrid trilogy, incorporating a post-digital ecosystem of multisensory art forms that serve as instruments for alignment and expansion.

1—Album Amicorum—a decolonised, interactive artist’s book using AR,XR and AI tech. Formerly an analogue artefact with low visibility as a result of being archived in library special collections, the process of decolonisation was achieved by using XR technology to enable smartphone cameras to recognise selected images, providing layers of digital materiality. Each image triggered an AI-generated music track using lyrics transposed from my own original poems, compiled into a separate volume entitled Noēma Poēma, weaving memory, identity and matrilineal wisdom with emerging technologies that is also an album of songs entitled: Love Made Visible.

2—Love Made Visible—a blues-jazz album, serving as a poetic soundscape that sings the texts from Nóēma Poēma to life, also adding context to the analogue photographs from the family album, where the viewer can hear the adult thoughts of the child in the photographs, long before these thoughts ever existed. [More EP‘s and Singles are available on Bandcamp.]

3—Nóēma Poēma—a comprehensive collection that maps the inner terrain over four generations of change, also serving as source material for future digital soundscapes and immersive experiences; consisting of 131 poems, manifestos and invocations across 412 pages.

“As a result of experimenting with AR, XR and AI, I was able to explore a new kind of hybrid materiality where technology could perform an assistive role in my creative process that amplified my noetic content without diminishing the authenticity of my personal artistic expression.”

Cat’s previous visual art has explored themes of memory, identity and the materiality of the artist’s book, creating a visual language that transcends cultural and linguistic barriers. Various iterations of Cat’s Artist’s Bookworks are collected by notable special collections, including the Wellcome Library, the British Library, the Women’s Art Library and the PAGES Travelling Collective, with work showcased at various events, including Late At Tate, the London Eye, and the London Underground.

Cat’s 2025 thesis: Reimagining Humanitarian, Spiritual and Matrilineal Values in a Patriarchal World, through AI, Cymatics and the Poetic Medium is available from iPoem press, and builds upon Cat’s former 2019 MA Thesis: “How does the Materiality of the Artist’s Book Help to Augment an Understanding With Respect to Creating a Narrative About Memory and Identity?” which is available as a free download from the Wellcome Collection website.

Love Made Visible LP - Cat Catalyst Music and Album Amicorum, an interactive Artist's Book.
Above: Love Made Visible Album cover and the first in a series of interactive images from an analogue Artist’s Book formerly entitled Sequence and reimagined through the use of emerging technology as: Album Amicorum for Cat’s RCA Masters of Research Degree. Click on the album cover above to access the YouTube Playlist. Below: Links to the primary blog posts on iPoem’s Blog featuring the original poetics, song lyrics with music players. All music is © Cat Catalyst Music 2025.

Blog posts with a ✩ symbol in the title indicates a music player. Click on the track for the lyrics. Titles without a✩ symbol are companion posts for my book Nóēma Poēma containing a full summary and breakdown of each of the 131 titles in the book, explaining why the poem matters:

✩ Angels on Earth (1995)
✩ Love Is (1996)
✩ Joy Smile (1997)
✩ Now is the New Now (1998)
✩ Prayer Song (1998)
✩ WLTM GSOH (2004)
✩ Reflections (2004)
✩ Swim (2005)
✩ Holiness of the Heart (2009)
✩ Elixir of Love (2010)
✩ Creatrix (2013)
✩ Kaleidoscope Memories (2020)
✩ Polaris (2022)
✩ Praxis (2023)
✩ Bandwidth (2023)
✩ Parallel Paradigms (2023)
✩ Parthenogenesis (2024)
✩ Mistress MatriXX (2024)
✩ Self-Mastery (2025)

In 2019 Cat’s Artist’s Book: ’Sequence’ was acquired by a number of Special Collections of Artist’s Books, namely The British Library (hardcover), The Wellcome Library (Perfect bound), The Women’s Art Library (saddle stitch) and The PAGES traveling Artist’s Book Collective, (perfect bound) housed at the Tetley Arts Centre in Leeds. ‘Sequence’ was also exhibited as a part of a series of three installations at The Camberwell Summer Show (2018 and 2019) and the MA Select Show at The Camberwell Space Gallery (2019) having graduated from MA Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts with a Distinction. Also in 2019 The Wellcome Library acquired a copy of Cat’s MA research paper: ‘How does the Materiality of the Artist’s Book Help to Augment an Understanding With Respect to Creating a Narrative About Memory and Identity?’ Cat has also written articles for the British Library’s ‘Artists Books Now’ events published in the renown peer review journal The Blue Notebook and the Book Arts NewsLetter.
 Notable previous site specific visual poetics have been featured at Late at Tate, The London Eye, and Art on the London Underground at Baker Street Tube.
 Cat is currently furthering her practice at the Royal College of Art, London.

Above: Various imprints of the pre-digital Artist’s Book ‘Sequence’ were collected by the British Library, Wellcome Library, Women’s Art Library, PAGES Travelling Collective and exhibited as a series of installations at the Camberwell Summer Show 2018, 2019; the MA Select Show at the Camberwell Space Gallery 2019; and Fragments of the Future at the RCA Hangar Gallery 2024.My research journey began with a recto-verso Artist’s Book (above) that I created for my mother—using family photographs to support her post-stroke memory loss and sense of identity. The bookwork was influenced by the following artists: 1. Wade Guyton—layering digital photography and print. 2. Chandra Mohini—showing the backs of photographs as art. 3. Michael Snow—his book Cover to Cover with synchronised image sequences. This led to the idea of layers—of time, image, memory, and identity—which then evolved into digital layers through AI, XR and VR.

Previously published titles, articles, anthologies, site-specific projects, visual poetics and exhibits:

2026: Five New Music Releases: Creatrix EP, Parallel Paradigms EP, Bandwidth EP, Mistress MatriXX-Single, and Parthenogenesis-Single, available from Bandcamp.
2025: Thesis: Reimagining Humanitarian, Spiritual and Matrilineal Values in a Patriarchal World, through AI, Cymatics and the Poetic Medium: Utilising pattern recognition as a resource to amplify higher consciousness—available as hardback
2025: Nóēma Poēma—Available as hardback and softcover editions
2025: RCA MRes—Album Amicorum—decolonised artist’s book
2025: RCA Research Journeys, Group Show, Hangar Gallery.
2025: Music Release of Joy Smile, drum & bass single.
2025: Music Release of Dance for a While, dance / house EP.
2025: Music Release of Love Made Visible, blues / jazz music album.
2024: RCA Research Journeys: Group Exhibition, Hangar Space.
2024: RCA Fragments of the Future, Group Exhibition, Hangar Space.
2024: Noetic Poetics: First Edition: Hardcover: published by iPoem Press
2023: Online apparel and homeware Shop
2023: Noetic Poetics: First Edition: Paperback: published by iPoem Press
2023: Creatrix: First Edition Paperback—acquired by British Library
2023: Featured in anthology: Return to Reason: The Poem is Part of the Eye—Bite Size Publishing
2022: Featured in: No Issue: Limited Edition produced by Carlotta Bianchi & Audrey Etro
2022: Now Is The New Now: Limited Edition published by iPoem Press
2021: iPoem’s Blog: Limited Edition published by iPoem Press
2021: Apotheosis: Limited Edition published by iPoem Press
2021: Calibrate – RCA Research Biennale (online)
2021: Kaleidoscope Memories published in The Pluralist, RCA SU Newspaper
2019: Sequence III – exhibited UAL MA Select Show, The Camberwell Space
2019: Sequence II – exhibited UAL MA Book Arts Summer Show, Camberwell
2019: British Library acquires Sequence Artist’s Book, (hardback)
2019: PAGES: New Voices: Travelling Collection Exhibition
2019: PAGES @ Tetley Arts, acquires Sequence Artist’s Book, (perfect bound)
2019: Womens Art Library acquires Sequence Artist’s Book, (saddle-stitch)
2019: Wellcome Library acquires Sequence Artist’s Book, (saddle-stitch)
2019: Wellcome Library acquires MA Research Paper.
2019: Article published in The Blue Notebook
2019: Mexican Embassy: Camaradas – Group Exhibition – Menier Gallery
2018: Article published in The Book Arts Newsletter 119 and 120
2018: Sequence I – UAL Camberwell Interim Summer Show
2018: Ab-normal – UAL Group Exhibition – Chelsea College of Art 
2018: Exhibit – UAL Group Exhibition – The Bermondsey Project Space
2018: Altered States – Group Exhibition – UAL Camberwell Library
2018: Ways of Seeing: (Solo show) Hanbury Hall, Spitalfields,
2017: Roots and Wings Arts and Wellbeing Festival, Spitalfields City Farm
2015: Published in Love is in the Air – Anthology
2012: iVend – LMU Summer Show – Central House
2012: Published in Poets for World Healing World Peace – Anthology
2011: Published in A Poetically Spoken Anthology
2011: Capsule launch for London Eye ‘Alternative guide’ feat. ‘CCTV’.
2010: Published in Reach Poetry – Anthology
2010: Published in Savasvati Poetry – Anthology
2010: Published in The Dawntreader – Anthology
2009: Shine: Art Below: A0 Poster at Baker Street Tube Station, London Underground
2008: Poetry Film Screening of ‘Swim‘ & Guest Speaker at Late at Tate, Tate Britain

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Aura Portrait: [May 2024] using an AuraCam 6000. The term ‘Indigo’ was coined back in the 1970s by Nancy Ann Tappe, a Californian parapsychologist, synesthete and psychic who observed children with Indigo auras in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Indigo refers to a soul group who were born with their Third Eye already activated. Tappe’s work was further developed by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober who authored a book, originally published in 1998 and reprinted in 2004, entitled: ‘The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived.’ Are you an Indigo? Read more: Karen Neverland | Conscious Reminder | Learning Mind | Centre of Excellence.

Cat inherited the surname of ‘Catalyst’ back in the early 1990’s as a result of organising a series of Arts and Well-being events in Australia and the UK, named ‘Catalyst’. The purpose of these events was to raise an awareness of environmental issues through the creative use of recycled materials, whilst simultaneously promoting a sense of communal cohesion by showcasing the work of local artists and designers. Which Cat has been doing on and off ever since. The dictionary definition of a ‘Catalyst’ is: ‘an agent of change and transformation which does not become changed in the process‘, whereupon one can serve as a conduit for universal truth, whilst retaining one’s authenticity. 

iPoem’s Blog was launched on 12th June 2012 as part of Cat’s Fine Art undergrad degree show and has been Cat’s personal weblog ever since. For Cat’s UAL academic website, that also archives Cat’s former event curation, pre-millennial digital art and early spoken-word performances, please visit HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you here again soon 🙂