Current Projects

Leaky Transmissions
A blurred textured grey digital image with green and blue lines like you’d get on an old TV is overlaid with the words Leaky Transmissions in white disjointed text.
Wed 1 June 2022 - Fri 28 October 2022
Leaky Transmissions is a project by Nottingham-based artist Nastassja Simensky that explores... more
Mind Garden
Harun Morrison
a Black person wearing a T Shirt on a sunny day puts on a pair of gardening gloves beside some wooden planters
Thu 31 March 2022 - Mon 31 October 2022
Emergent Ecologies is a series of five artist projects across South Yorkshire  that explore... more
Emergent Ecologies
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad | Rachel Pimm | a place of their own | Luiza Prado de O. Martins | Harun Morrison
A hand with short nails holds up a small black card with the words 'Obstruct' on them. In the background is a Sheffield street scene with grey buildings either side of a road with double yellow lines on it. At the end of the adjoining street are old red brick buildings with scaffolding on them in a phase of redevelopment
Mon 11 October 2021 - Fri 31 March 2023
Artists: a place of their own (Paula McCloskey & Sam Vardy); Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad; Harun... more
Soil Futures
On a pale green square, the words ‘Soil Futures’ are spelled out in beige and brown letters with organic wiggly shapes, making them look a bit like worms. Surrounding the letters are organic shapes that conjure amoebas and matter examined under a microscope.
Thu 21 July 2022 - Fri 30 June 2023
Soil Futures is a network of creative organisations that explores the ground between us.The network... more
The Networked Condition
Wed 15 September 2021 - Wed 31 August 2022
Arts organisations: Fast Familiar, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Arts Catalyst are pleased to... more
Co-Hostings | Research Residency and Public Programme
A hand with short nails holds up a small black card with the words 'Obstruct' on them. In the background is a Sheffield street scene with grey buildings either side of a road with double yellow lines on it. At the end of the adjoining street are old red brick buildings with scaffolding on them in a phase of redevelopment
Mon 26 July 2021 - Mon 31 October 2022
Over the next two years, Arts Catalyst will embark on a series of collective inquiries, titled... more

PAST PROJECTS

Kitchen Club: Mind Garden Open Day
Harun Morrison
Three people are hard at work in a small garden on a sunny Spring day. They are using gardening tools to plant new plants which are strewn around raised beds and soil and weeded plants are scattered on the ground.
Sat 16 July 2022
Artist Harun Morrison and his collaborators have been busy transforming Sheffield Mind's outdoor... more
Writing Workshop: Gardens in Fiction, Fiction in Gardens
Harun Morrison
A collection of scattered yellow dandelion flowers are strewn on a black surface and photographed very close up.
Sat 16 July 2022
The starting point for this workshop is a database the artist Harun Morrison has been developing... more
Sonic Walk
An area of long grass, shrubs and trees is pictured on a sunny summer day. On a hill in the background are 1960’s style brick houses and flats seen between trees in full bloom. White clouds are scattered in the blue sky. The words ‘Sonic Walk with Ashley Holmes’ are imposed in dark grey letters on top of the image.
Fri 8 July 2022
Artist Ashley Holmes will lead this walk centred on sounds and listening with the landscape. ... more
Radio Silence - Online Poetry Workshop
A blurred textured grey digital image with green and blue lines like you’d get on an old TV is overlaid with the words Radio Silence in white disjointed text.
Wed 22 June 2022
Radio Silence is a poetry workshop facilitated by artist and writer Emma Bolland for people to... more
Kitchen Club 3: Kaajal Modi
Kaajal Modi
A group of people of varying ages and ethnicities sit round a table with ingredients including vegetables and herbs laid on it. The group are sat in a large brightly lit hall. They can be seen chopping vegetables, examining pickled things in jars and working with food. Over this image is a yellow rectangle with the words ‘Kitchen Club #3’ in blue text.
Sat 18 June 2022
Kitchen Club brings together people who care about food including its circulation and production,... more
Kitchen Club 2: Spring Bitters
a close up photograph shows the stem of a herb with thin leaves on a grey surface lit by warm light. The words ‘Kitchen Club: Spring Bitters’ are overlaid in blue text on a light green rectangle.
Sat 7 May 2022
Kitchen Club brings together people who care about food including its circulation and production,... more
Earth Writing
Rachel Pimm
a shiny russet coloured clump of fungi sits within ground covered in brown leaves. Overlaid on the photo are white dashed lines, that look like map outlines.
Sat 30 April 2022
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. There are a few tickets remaining. How do words and sounds... more
Forest Meditation Workshop
Breakwater
a small group of people walk through a deciduous woodland in summer, with lush green foliage creating shade. The words ‘Forest Meditation’ are overlaid in dark grey on a green background.
Fri 29 April 2022
Artist duo Breakwater lead a walk with meditation in ancient woodland.  Ecclesall Woods... more
The Networked Condition Case Study #6 with On-Trade-Off
A Tesla car is molded in copper wire with a number plate. It sits in a dark space lit by warm light while a small piece of machinery to the side discharges a blue light
Thu 21 April 2022
At the start of 2020, Fast Familiar, Abandon Normal Devices and Arts Catalyst began The Networked... more
Dead Cat Bounce
Gary Zhexi Zhang
A muted brown robe with huge sleeves made of cotton fabric is suspended by ropes so that it forms the flat shape of human body. It is sewn with quilted patches and fasted with yellow ribbon. Above the robe is a cream paper lantern globe which has a very large grin and two wide spaced eyes on it. The space is dark with the robe lit by warm light from small lamps on the ground and dimly lit human figures can be seen in the shadows.
Wed 6 April 2022 - Tue 31 May 2022
Dead Cat Bounce is a performance and installation resulting from a collaboration between artist... more
Kitchen Club #1 with Social Pickle
a green rectangle has the words Kitchen Club in dark brown lettering, surrounded by abstract tube shapes in blue and yellow that resemble moving microbes
Sat 2 April 2022
Launching in April 2022, Kitchen Club brings together people who care about food including its... more
Wet / Land / Dwellers - Screening and Performance
a place of their own
a huge tree with bare branches rises into a cloudy sky with light creeping through. The landscape around is low lying with grasses and shrubs and the scene is wintery. The image is in two tone cream and plum with a green band across that has the words 'Wet Land Dwellers' in outline.
Fri 11 March 2022
WET / LAND / DWELLERS asks; How do communities of humans and non-humans live with and inhabit... more