Rose Nolan

Biography

Born Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia 1959
Lives and works in Melbourne

Rose Nolan works across paint­ing, instal­la­tion, sculp­ture, pho­tog­ra­phy, prints and book pro­duc­tion. Her prac­tice reg­u­lar­ly oscil­lates between the inti­mate and the mon­u­men­tal, often informed by a strong inter­est in archi­tec­ture, inte­ri­or and graph­ic design – com­bin­ing for­mal con­cerns with the lega­cies of mod­ernism. Nolan’s prac­tice is known for its atten­tion to the for­mal and lin­guis­tic qual­i­ties of words, using lan­guage to trans­form archi­tec­tur­al space. By mak­ing lan­guage con­crete, mean­ing is asserted.


Nolan typ­i­cal­ly employs a rad­i­cal­ly reduced palette of red and white, and sim­ple util­i­tar­i­an mate­ri­als and meth­ods, in an explo­ration of per­son­al, play­ful and often self-effac­ing nar­ra­tives. Each work describes a con­cern for econ­o­my; a desire to be respon­sive to site; an inter­est in seri­al­i­ty and rep­e­ti­tion; and the impor­tance of lan­guage, inter­ac­tiv­i­ty, and the expe­ri­ence of the viewer.

Pub­lic col­lec­tions includ­e: NGA Can­ber­ra; NGV, Mel­bourne; AGN­SW, Syd­ney; AGSA, Ade­laide; MCA, Syd­ney; Hei­de MOMA, Mel­bourne; and Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Muse­um of Art.

Urban art com­mis­sions include Screen Works – ENOUGH-NOW/EVEN/­­MORE-SO’, Queen Vic­to­ria Mar­ket, City of Mel­bourne (2021); GIVE OR TAKE’, Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Library Caulfield Cam­pus (2017); A Big Word – HEL­LO’ (The Hel­lo House in col­lab­o­ra­tion with OOF! Archi­tec­ture), Mel­bourne (2014); It’s Okay to Be Alright’, Mel­bourne Art Trams (2013) and It’s Hard to See What This All Means’, Site One, Dock­lands, Mel­bourne (2006).


CV

Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions
Available Works

Rose Nolan

Cen­tre­point Carpark, 2023
5212.512 cm
5212.512 cm

Rose Nolan

Adobe House, 2023
Card­board, found packaging
252825 cm

Rose Nolan

James Tur­rell Fun Palace , 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found packaging
384238 cm

Rose Nolan

Mt. Table Top Water Tower , 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, poster rolls, paper drink­ing straws
313434 cm

Rose Nolan

O U Short Stay Motel, 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found packaging
222324 cm

Rose Nolan

Home-Sweet-Home House Museum , 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, exhi­bi­tion invitation
392429 cm

Rose Nolan

New Age / Care Facility , 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, poster roll
441431 cm

Rose Nolan

OSS (One Stop Shop), 2023
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, cake base, take-away cof­fee cup
41.52430 cm

Rose Nolan

T‑Tree House , 2022 – 23
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, card­board roll
432124 cm

Rose Nolan

IF NOT YOU WHO (hes­s­ian version), 2022
Acrylic paint, hes­s­ian, embroi­dery thread, tap washers
7241cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

M‑Bar, 2022
Acrylic paint, found pack­ag­ing, cof­fee cup
362421 cm

Rose Nolan

M‑Bar, 2022
Acrylic paint, found pack­ag­ing, cof­fee cup
362421 cm

Rose Nolan

AA Hydrother­a­py Pool, 2022
Acrylic paint, found packaging
292922.5 cm

Rose Nolan

Wrapped Tem­ple, 2022
Acrylic paint, found pack­ag­ing, Glad Wrap rolls
362421 cm

Rose Nolan

LAB , 2022
Acrylic paint, card­board, found pack­ag­ing, take-away cof­fee cups
392828 cm

Rose Nolan

Big Words (Not Mine) – Be con­fi­dent that…, 2022
Acrylic paint, hes­s­ian, embroi­dery thread, tap washers
180179cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

IF NOT NOW WHEN (hes­s­ian version), 2022
Acrylic paint, hes­s­ian, embroi­dery thread, tap washers
7241cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

A Big Word – EVEN (V.1), 2022
Acrylic paint, found packaging
26196cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

HELL0 / HELL NO (anoth­er version), 2021
Acrylic paint, cardboard
19.54211cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

SOSO, 2020
Acrylic paint, cardboard
2 x pan­els each 342912cm
Image: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

A CUL­TUR­AL SIGNPOST, 2020
acrylic paint, card­board, found box­es, card­board tube
971210 cm

Rose Nolan

Big Words (Not Mine) A pub­lic space is occu­pied by pri­vate bodies…, 2020
Hes­s­ian, acrylic paint, hab­er­dash­ery thread
dimen­sions variable

Rose Nolan

Bar­code House, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
30.544.525 cm

Rose Nolan

iTunes Muse­um, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
3715.58.5 cm

Rose Nolan

NGV Con­tem­po­rary, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
3728.527.5 cm

Rose Nolan

Well­ness Centre, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
27.54123 cm

Rose Nolan

Home Office, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
423411 cm

Rose Nolan

NGV Con­tem­po­rary, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
3728.527.5 cm

Rose Nolan

Well­ness Centre, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
27.54123 cm
Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

Home Office, 2019
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
423411 cm
Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Rose Nolan

LESS IS HARD­ER (twice over), 2017
acrylic paint on cardboard
2314016 cm

Rose Nolan

A Big Word — HOPEFUL, 2014
acrylic paint direct­ly on wall
550 cm x 2122 cm
instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Carriageworks

Rose Nolan

Big Words — QUOTE/UNQUOTE, 2014
hes­s­ian, acrylic paint, embroi­dery thread
2 pen­nants: 25 cm x 45 cm; 28 cm x 65 cm

Rose Nolan

You See What I’m Say­ing (twice over print version), 2012
screen­print on Mag­nani Coro­na 310gsm
10070 cm (unframed)

Rose Nolan

Plac­ard Work — AWKWARD, 2009
acrylic paint, card­board, wood
28522 cm

Rose Nolan

The FAB/​Marimeko House, 2008
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
32.52521.5 cm

Rose Nolan

Twin­ings Tea Tower, 2008
found pack­ag­ing, card­board, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
57237 cm

Rose Nolan

The Wel­come Mat, 2007
acrylic wool thread
150350 cm

Library
News

The Nation­al: New Aus­tralian Art

It’s been near­ly twen­ty years since Syd­ney host­ed a sub­stan­tial sur­vey exhi­bi­tion of con­tem­po­rary Australian […]

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John Nixon, Stephen Bram & Rose Nolan, Cook­ing with John’ curat­ed by Amalia Lin­do & Jacque­line Stojanović

Hay­dens, Mel­bourne 10 — 12 More­land Road Brunswick East, 3057 Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: 22 May from 6 – […]

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ROSE NOLAN: PAR­LOUR GAMESANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY

Rose Nolan Big Words (Not Mine) – Tran­scend the pover­ty of par­tial vision (floor version) […]

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ROSE NOLAN: HAL­LAM STATION

YOU/ME/US/HERE/NOW is an open, pos­i­tive and bold text-based propo­si­tion for peo­ple to con­sid­er as […]

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ROSE NOLAN | CEN­TRAL STATION

All along­side of each oth­er, 2023 Cen­tral Sta­tion, Syd­ney, Aus­tralia. The pub­lic art­work All alongside […]

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