About

“Part 21st century troubadour and part artistic chameleon, Cat has created a hypnotic poetic vision that is quite literally a spiritual call to arms.”

Cat’s work is collected by notable UK Special Collections of Artist’s Books including The British Library, Wellcome Library, Women’s Art Library, Tetley Arts Center and has been featured in site specific art projects on the London Underground, Late at Tate, The London Eye and more.

iPoem Press has two new publications available Creatrix and Noetic Poetics, which reflect an interest in what Sir Francis Bacon coined as the ‘Two T’s’, symbolising the ‘Two-Truths-of-Reality’, or the ‘Twin-Truths-of-Reality’ that frequently appear in his folio title pages as a ‘nod’ to the twin realities of both the physical and the non-physical experiential planes of existence that co-exist at the simultaneously. This is also a reference to the marriage of heaven and earth / wisdom and form / knowledge and method / the non-physical spiritual with the physical material / the divine sacred masculine in harmony with the divine sacred feminine.

NOETIC POETICS – this second collection of literary art invites the reader to consider certain notions that may serve to reactivate abeyant apertures-of-awareness within the temple of the soul. Available from Amazon UK and iPoem Press in hardcover and paperback.
CREATRIX is a comprehensive first collection of literary artworks documenting a 30-year career as an curator, designer, writer, poet and spiritual advocate. Available from Waterstones, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, iPoem Press and most good booksellers.
SHOP – There is also a range of apparel and homeware featuring my original book cover designs, available exclusively from the online shop.
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These are living collections which evolve as new content is produced and new iterations realised, whereupon each discontinued print run becomes a limited edition.

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.  

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 academic website please visit >> here << NB: For obvious reasons, content published in Creatrix and Noetic Poetics is no longer available on this website.

Previous published titles, articles, anthologies and visual poetics:
2024: Fragments of the Future, Group Exhibition, Hangar Gallery.
2024: Noetic Poetics: Hardcover
2023: Online apparel and homeware Shop
2023: Noetic Poetics: Paperback
2023: Creatrix: Paperback – World wide distribution
2023: Return to Reason: The Poem is Part of the Eye – Bite Size Publishing
2022: No Issue – (Limited Edition) produced by Carlotta Bianchi and Audrey Etro
2022: Now Is The New Now: (Limited Edition)
2021: iPoem’s Blog: (Limited Edition)
2021: Apotheosis: (Limited Edition)
2021: Calibrate – RCA Research Biennale
2021: Kaleidoscope Memories, published in The Pluralist
2019: Sequence III – MA Select Show, The Camberwell Space
2019: Sequence II – MA Book Arts Summer Show
2019: Published in The Blue Notebook
2019: Mexican Embassy: Camaradas – Group Exhibition – Menier Gallery
2018: Published in The Book Arts Newsletter 119 and 120
2018: Sequence I – Camberwell Interim Show
2018: Ab-normal – Group Exhibition – Chelsea College of Art
2018: Exhibit – 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 – Group Exhibition – Central House
2012: Poets for World Healing World Peace – Anthology
2011: Published in A Poetically Spoken Anthology
2010: Published in Reach Poetry – Anthology
2010: Published in Savasvati Poetry – Anthology
2010: Published in The Dawntreader – Anthology
2009: Shine: Featured at Baker Street Tube Station in Art Below: Art and Poetry on the London Underground
2008: Film Screening and Guest Speaker at Late at Tate, Tate Britain