Dublin based artist, Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Approaching very large ideas at an intimate scale, her work focuses on the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happen. Examining the knees of a sculpture, the status of a Neolithic artefact, or a solar storm in the 19th century, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; London Mithraeum/Bloomberg Space, London; Mercer Union, Toronto, CAG, Vancouver, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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Gemma Tipton, Isabel Nolan, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Frieze, May 28th, 2015. Image: Courtesy Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
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Martin Herbert, Isabel Nolan Calling on Gravity, ArtReview, December 13th, 2017. Image: Courtesy the Artist
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Ed Krčma, Isabel Nolan: The Weakened Eye of Day, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Enclave Review, Autumn 2014, pp. 15-16. Image: Courtesy of the Artist, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Irish Museum of Modern Art.