Isabel Nolan Explained

Isabel Nolan
Birth Place:	Dublin, Ireland

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.^[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^[7]
• Nolan, Isabel. Some surfaces on which patterns occur. Onestar Press, 2013.^[8]
• Nolan, Isabel. Curling up with reality. Dublin: Launchpad and Kerlin Gallery, 2020. ISBN 978-0-9750070-9-3^{[9] [10]}

External links

• The three body problem (audio work)
• Kerlin Gallery artist page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Harbison. Issobel. Isabel Nolan. frieze.com. Frieze. 24 September 2020. 1 March 2010.
2. Web site: Clancy. Luke. Isabel Nolan: This time I promise to be more careful. exhibit-e.com. ARTREVIEW. 12 February 2016. 2007.
3. Web site: Stott. Tim. Unmade. exhibit-e.com. ArtReview. 12 February 2016. March 2013.
4. Web site: 2014 . Isabel Nolan: The weakened eye of day . 10 May 2022 . Irish Museum of Modern Art.
5. Web site: Rubio. Lorraine. artnet Asks: Isabel Nolan. artnet.com. artnet. 12 February 2016. 12 September 2014.
6. Web site: Stott. Tim. Biographies. mercerunion.org. Mercer Union. 12 February 2016.
7. Book: Nolan, Isabel . Isabel Nolan: intimately unrelated = intimement sans rapport. . 2011 . Musée d'Art Moderne . 978-0-9567179-1-7 . 793891351.
8. Book: Nolan, Isabel . Some Surfaces on which Patterns Occur . 2013 . English . 1040860260.
9. Web site: Isabel Nolan Curling up with Reality . 2021-07-23 . The Douglas Hyde Gallery . en-GB.
10. Book: Nolan . Isabel . Isabel Nolan: Curling up with Reality. . Kerlin Gallery . In Association with the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Nolan, Isabel . 2020 . 978-0-9570070-9-3 . English . 1247083435.