Isabel Nolan (b.1974, Dublin) has an expansive practice that incorporates sculptures, paintings, textile works, photographs, writing and works on paper. Her subject matter is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining the behaviour of humans and animals alike. These diverse artists investigations are driven by intensive research, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective, IN concert, her works give generous form to fundamental questions about the ways the world is made meaningful through human activity.

Selected solo exhibitions include: The air between things, two-person exhibition with Stephen McKenna, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China (2019); Ein Fuß in der Welt / One Foot in the World, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany (2018); Another View from Nowhere, London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, UK (2017-18); Curling up with reality, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria (2017-18); Calling on Gravity, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2017); The weakened eye of day, Mercer Union, Toronto and CAG, Vancouver (both Canada, 2016) and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2014) and A hole into the future, Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France (2012).

Nolan represented Ireland at the 51st Venice Biennale as part of a group exhibition, Ireland at Venice 2005. Nolan’s work is included in the public collections of Tate, London, UK; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi. In late 2020 Launchpad and Kerlin Gallery published ‘Curling up with reality’ which brings together a survey of Nolan’s work over the last decade including significant exhibitions and 20 of the artist’s writings.