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b. 1974, Dublin, Ireland.

Isabel Nolan’s practice encompasses drawings, paintings, animation, mixed media and fibreglass sculptures and most recently, embroidery and fabric compositions.

Her first one-person exhibition was at the Proposition Gallery, Belfast, in 1998 and since then she has had solo exhibitions at the Goethe Institute (2003), Project Arts Centre (2005) and Four (2005), Gallery 3 (Farmleigh) & Gallery 2, of the Douglas Hyde Gallery (2006, 2008), Kerlin Gallery, (2007) all in Dublin and in The Studio, Glasgow, as part of Glasgow International 2006.

Recent group exhibitions include Micro-narratives: tentation des petites réalités, Musée dArt moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, (2008), Exploration, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, (2008), Economic Thought, Ard Bia, Berlin (2008), Through the Lens: New Media Art from Ireland, Beijing Art Museum of Imperial City, Beijing (2008), No Answer is also an answer, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2007), Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar, New York (2007), 100 Tage 100 Videos, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2007), Lost Tongues Rediscovered, Stroom, Den Haag (2007), If I Cant Dance I Don´t Want to Be Part Of Your Revolution, De Appel, Amsterdam (2006)

She represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition, ‘Ireland at Venice 2005’, which was subsequently presented at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, in 2006. Other group exhibitions include ‘How Things Turn Out’ (2002) and ‘Tír na nÓg’ (2004), ‘10,000 to 50’ (2008) all at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, ‘Superbia 1 & 2’, Dublin & Cork (2003, 2005), ‘The Yugoslav Biennial for Young Artists’, Serbia-Montenegro (2004), and ‘Coalesce - With All Due Intent’, Model Art & Niland Gallery, Sligo (2004).

Nolan completed her B.A. at the N.C.A.D. in 1995 and her M.A. in 2006. Her work is represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and in various collections, public and private, in Ireland and abroad. Nolan is also the asst. producer of the fanzine ‘Feint’.
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