Rings of Saturn
Artist
Isabel Nolan
(b. 1974)
Date2007
MediumCotton, linen, embroidery silk, thread (textile component)
Plastic straws, copper rods and wire, fibreglass and paint (3D component)
Dimensions101 x 117 cm
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by Sean Scully, 2007.
© Isabel Nolan.
Object number2007
DescriptionBorn in Dublin in and currently based here, Isabel Nolan works in a range of media that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, animation and most recently, embroidery and fabric hangings. Drawing equally on traditions of abstraction, figuration and the 'imagetext' the world evoked in Nolan's work is a world of intimacies and oddities, of quiet desperation and compensatory joys. Usually modest in scale these works have little time for bombast or monumentality, preferring to explore by accumulating increments a kaleidoscopic array of wonders and commonplace feelings such as loneliness, tenderness, frustration, fear and hope. The mundane particularities of the real are repeatedly enlivened in her work by the workings of a spirited, off-beat imagination.On View
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