“Maurice Doherty’s ‘Five Gallons of Petrol’ consisted of a petrol canister and a book of matches on which had been written ‘Catalyst Arts Thursday 7pm’. I suppose we were meant to assume that Doherty has no intention of torching Catalyst…. or does he? The more the question was dwelt upon the less intriguing it appeared. On reflection it seemed that to begin with the premise set out in the press release was a little more than a definition of irony; the net effect of saying one thing to mean the opposite is the inclusion of both positions in the statement not the dismissal of the first – unless what is really being referred to is sarcasm, a very different animal. It is not unusual for an artist to aspire on the one hand to the sublime detachment of the cultural ironist, and on the other to the passionate integrity that the artist’s role traditionally demands. Despite ‘Right Place Wrong Time Friend’ failing to illuminate this dichotomy very clearly, the work hung together in an oddly coherent way.”

North and South – David Musgrave, Art Monthly – June 98