Isabel Nolan is an Irish

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ist who works with sculpture, textile, photographs, and text. Nolan lives and works in

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Work

Nolan, according to a review of her work in

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, 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. Nolan frequently makes reference to the aesthetics of cosmology. The work is often the result of a slow and deliberate process, matching pattern with en elusive sense of order. Nolan's work often has its origins in literary works, such as

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

'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 The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, the Museum pr ...

in 2014. 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''.

Career

Her work has been shown in the

, the Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France and

Mercer Union Mercer Union is a Canadian artist-run centre in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1979 to exhibit contemporary art. History Mercer Union was founded in 1979 by artists Michael Balfe, Peter Blendell, Ric Evans, Peter Hill, Jamie Lyons, David MacW ...

. Nolan was one of a group of seven artists who represented Ireland in the 2005

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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

References

External links

The three body problem
(audio work)
Kerlin Gallery artist page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nolan, Isabel 1974 births Living people Irish women artists Irish contemporary artists Artists from Dublin (city)