Isabel Nolan

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Isabel Nolan
Born1974 (age 4849)
Dublin, Ireland
Website www.isabelnolan.com

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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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

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References

  1. Harbison, Issobel (1 March 2010). "Isabel Nolan". frieze.com. Frieze. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  2. Clancy, Luke (2007). "Isabel Nolan: This time I promise to be more careful" (PDF). exhibit-e.com. ARTREVIEW. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. Stott, Tim (March 2013). "Unmade" (PDF). exhibit-e.com. ArtReview. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  4. "Isabel Nolan: The weakened eye of day". Irish Museum of Modern Art. 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. Rubio, Lorraine (12 September 2014). "artnet Asks: Isabel Nolan". artnet.com. artnet. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  6. Stott, Tim. "Biographies" (PDF). mercerunion.org. Mercer Union. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  7. Nolan, Isabel (2011). Isabel Nolan: intimately unrelated = intimement sans rapport. Musée d'Art Moderne. ISBN   978-0-9567179-1-7. OCLC   793891351.
  8. Nolan, Isabel (2013). Some Surfaces on which Patterns Occur. OCLC   1040860260.
  9. "Isabel Nolan | Curling up with Reality". The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  10. Nolan, Isabel; Kerlin Gallery, In Association with the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Nolan, Isabel (2020). Isabel Nolan: Curling up with Reality. ISBN   978-0-9570070-9-3. OCLC   1247083435.