Isabel Nolan
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Isabel Nolan is an Irish contemporary artist who works with sculpture, textile, photographs, and text. Nolan lives and works in Dublin.
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.{{cite web|last1=Harbison|first1=Issobel|title=Isabel Nolan|url=http://www.frieze.com/article/isabel-nolan/|website=frieze.com|publisher=Frieze|accessdate=24 September 2020|date=1 March 2010}} Nolan frequently makes reference to the aesthetics of cosmology.{{cite web|last1=Clancy|first1=Luke|title=Isabel Nolan: This time I promise to be more careful|url=http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_kerlin_ie/KG_ArtReiew_07.pdf|website=exhibit-e.com|publisher=ARTREVIEW|accessdate=12 February 2016|date=2007}} The work is often the result of a slow and deliberate process, matching pattern with en elusive sense of order.{{cite web|last1=Stott|first1=Tim|title=Unmade|url=http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_kerlin_ie/IN_ArtReview_March2013.pdf|website=exhibit-e.com|publisher=ArtReview|accessdate=12 February 2016|date=March 2013}} 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.{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Isabel Nolan: The weakened eye of day |url=http://www.imma.ie/en/page_236813.htm |access-date=10 May 2022 |website=Irish Museum of Modern Art}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Rubio|first1=Lorraine|title=artnet Asks: Isabel Nolan|url=https://news.artnet.com/people/artnet-asks-isabel-nolan-101454|website=artnet.com|publisher=artnet|accessdate=12 February 2016|date=12 September 2014}}
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.{{cite web|last1=Stott|first1=Tim|title=Biographies|url=http://www.mercerunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MercerUnion_NOLAN_Brochure_website-1.pdf|website=mercerunion.org|publisher=Mercer Union|accessdate=12 February 2016}}
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{{Cite book |last=Nolan |first=Isabel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793891351 |title=Isabel Nolan: intimately unrelated = intimement sans rapport. |date=2011 |publisher=Musée d'Art Moderne |isbn=978-0-9567179-1-7 |oclc=793891351}}
- Nolan, Isabel. Some surfaces on which patterns occur. Onestar Press, 2013.{{Cite book |last=Nolan |first=Isabel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1040860260 |title=Some Surfaces on which Patterns Occur |date=2013 |language=English |oclc=1040860260}}
- Nolan, Isabel. Curling up with reality. Dublin: Launchpad and Kerlin Gallery, 2020. ISBN 978-0-9750070-9-3{{Cite web |title=Isabel Nolan {{!}} Curling up with Reality |url=http://www.douglashydegallery.com/bookshop/isabel-nolan-curling-up-with-reality |access-date=2021-07-23 |website=The Douglas Hyde Gallery |language=en-GB}}{{Cite book |last1=Nolan |first1=Isabel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1247083435 |title=Isabel Nolan: Curling up with Reality. |last2=Kerlin Gallery |first2=In Association with the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Nolan, Isabel |date=2020 |isbn=978-0-9570070-9-3 |language=English |oclc=1247083435}}
References
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External links
- [https://soundcloud.com/imma-ireland/isabel-nolan-the-three-body-problem The three body problem] (audio work)
- [https://www.kerlingallery.com/artists/isabel-nolan Kerlin Gallery artist page]
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