Isobel Nolan was born in Dublin. She works in a wide 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.