Isabel Nolan
Isabel Nolan is an Irish contemporary artist who works with sculpture, textile, photographs, and text. Nolan lives and works in Dublin.
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Born | 1974 (age 47–48) Dublin, Ireland |
Website | www |
Work
Nolan, according to a review of her work in Frieze Magazine, works similarly to Eva Berendes, Nicholas Byrne and Richard Wright, by using pre-modern pattern-making and craftsmanship to re-investigate the importance of making.[1] Nolan frequently makes reference to the aesthetics of cosmology.[2] The work is often the result of a slow and deliberate process, matching pattern with en elusive sense of order.[3] Nolan's work often has its origins in literary works, such as Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush that provided the title for The Weakened Eye of Day, a work she conceived for the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2014.[4] As part of The Weakened Eye of Day, she wrote a piece of "speculative fiction" in the form of an online audio work called The Three Body Problem.[5]
Career
Her work has been shown in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France and Mercer Union. Nolan was one of a group of seven artists who represented Ireland in the 2005 Venice Biennale.[6]
Bibliography
- Nolan, Isabel. Isabel Nolan : intimately unrelated = intimement sans rapport. Sligo Saint Etienne: The Model Musée d'Art Moderne, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9567179-1-7
- Nolan, Isabel. Some surfaces on which patterns occur. Onestar Press, 2013.
- Nolan, Isabel. Curling up with reality. Dublin: Launchpad and Kerlin Gallery, 2020. ISBN 978-0-9750070-9-3[7]
References
- Harbison, Issobel (1 March 2010). "Isabel Nolan". frieze.com. Frieze. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- Clancy, Luke (2007). "Isabel Nolan: This time I promise to be more careful" (PDF). exhibit-e.com. ARTREVIEW. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- Stott, Tim (March 2013). "Unmade" (PDF). exhibit-e.com. ArtReview. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- "Isabel Nolan: The weakened eye of day".
- Rubio, Lorraine (12 September 2014). "artnet Asks: Isabel Nolan". artnet.com. artnet. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- Stott, Tim. "Biographies" (PDF). mercerunion.org. Mercer Union. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- "ISABEL NOLAN". THE DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
External links
- The three body problem (audio work)
- Kerlin Gallery artist page