Catalyst Arts a non-profit artist-run space based in Belfast city centre.
[1] In accordance with its constitution it is run by unpaid volunteers, and seeks to adopt a poly-vocal strategy towards the promotion of contemporary art practices by large selection of artists and projects from the widest possible range of disciplines.
[3] Catalyst Arts was envisioned as an agency that would act as a 'catalyst' cajoling, supporting and promoting culturally engaged artistic endeavours on a local, national and international basis[4] Academic and critic, Declan Long describes Catalyst as a "locally influential...
"[5] Catalyst Arts was founded on a constitution that provides a structure in which power flows from the roots of its membership to the committee of directors.
Catalyst Arts has shown works of David Shrigley, Ross Sinclair, Susan Phillipz, Phil Collins, Michelle D Hannah, Roddy Buchanan, Simon Starling, Bill Drummond to name a few, and has turned the gallery into a sauna with Joanna Karolini.