Creatrix – Paperback

Posted on August 4, 2023 by iPoem

CREATRIX – is Cat Catalyst’s first collection of literary art which documents a 30-year career as a visual artist, event curator, poet and spiritual mentor. This is the final iteration of this particular body of work and marks the completion of a cycle. Published by iPoem Press. Available in paperback from Waterstones / Barnes and Nobel / Blackwells / Abe / Walmart / Amazon / iPoem Press / and most good book sellers.

I often refer to this body of work during its various stages of development as ‘the never-ending book‘ as the work begins in 1988 and unfolds sequentially until 2021, having undergone several different iterations, which are always evolving. It’s a living work populated with former ‘Catalyst’ event fliers from the 90’s, art projects and exhibition installations, providing context to a collection of didactic, noetic, esoteric and syncretic poetics. Creatrix is designed to be read sequentially, like a normal book, in order to obtain the overview of three decades of original thought.

✩ Apotheosis – the RCA 2021 Biennale

Posted on April 24, 2021 by iPoem

Apotheosis – Poems and Manifestos for a New Paradigm was produced as a limited edition print run for the RCA 2021 Biennial and unfortunately is no longer available. It was an epistolary novel comprised of interwoven real and fictional auto-ethnographic memories in modern verse. It was later expanded and is now available as ‘Creatrix‘ documenting a 30 year career as an curator, artist, poet and psychospiritual mentor.

For more information about the RCA project please visit my other site here and here and here.

Sequence

Posted on June 19, 2019 by iPoem

In 2019 Cat’s Artist’s Book: ’Sequence’ was acquired by the Special Collections of Artist’s Books at 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.