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 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. 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

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's poem '' The Darkling Thrush'' that provided the title for ''The Weakened Eye of Day'', a work she conceived for the

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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. 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)