Isabel Nolan

Nolan, similarly to Eva Berendes, Nicholas Byrne and Richard Wright, uses 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]

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]

• Nolan, Isabel; Kealy, Seamus; Hegyi, Lorand (2011-12-10). Intimately Unrelated. Graham Harman, Declan Long (eds.). The Model: Home of the Niland Collection. ISBN 978-0-9567179-1-7.
• Nolan, Isabel; Onestar Press (2013). Some surfaces on which patterns occur.

• The three body problem (audio work)