Isabel Nolan was born in Dublin. She works in a range of different media and to varying degrees of scale. She has represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition and she has exhibited widely across Ireland, and internationally, including France, the U.K., the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the US. Her work is represented in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and is held in various collections, public and private, in Ireland and abroad.

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Isabel Nolan’s works are held in the collection of Dundalk Town Council. Isabel explains:
“It is the brain of one of the humanoid creatures with limited senses I painted around that time – all in the same pink, red, black and white palette. I had my first solo show in Proposition Gallery, Belfast in 1999 with a large body of paintings of Goonies (as I called them). I thought the idea that information was matter floating in the air was funny- that an idea might occur with the absorption of particulates through the eyes. Though I always liked the various ‘brain’ works of which there were quite a number, I am probably even fonder of them now.”
Isabel studied at The National College of Art and Design and having finished her degree, began to apply for open submission shows and to self-organise projects with friends. During this period, she worked as a technician at The Irish Museum of Modern Art while working on her art, first at home, and then in a small studio space in Dublin. Becoming a full-time artist was a gradual process of gaining contacts and making friends who were actively working as artists and curators. Opportunities then began to present themselves.

It became clear to Isabel that she wanted to make art full time while studying for an MLitt at University College Dublin.
“The frustration of not having enough time to make art made it quite clear that I wanted to do it full-time. After that it was a matter of working towards the goal of having more time. To this end I started to apply for and get Arts Council funding which was and still is fundamental in enabling me to work as an artist full-time. For three years I also had a subsidised studio in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. These factors were crucial in practical terms and acted as a validation of what I was doing.”

Isabel is represented by The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Gallery Side 2, Tokyo.

Find out more about this artist here: www.isabelnolan.com