Rose Nolan

Rose Nolan
Big Words—Trying to get it right or righter 2018
multi purpose identification labels, PVA, acrylic paint, pencil, cardboard
Geelong Gallery
Purchased with funding generously provided by Geelong Contemporary, Christine Bell, and the Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisition Fund, 2022
© Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis

Rose Nolan was born in Melbourne in 1959 and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since the mid-1980s.  Her works are held in the NGA, most state collections, and various metropolitan and regional collections.  Nolan is critically acclaimed, and an artist on the Geelong Gallery desiderata.

Rose Nolan’s practice regularly oscillates between the discrete and the monumental, and her choice of everyday materials and ways of working indicate respect for the ordinariness of life and the resilience of fragile individuality. This is an outcome of Nolan’s continued interest in the complexity of the art object (process, materials, scale, content, history) and the ways in which it can both transform and be transformed by the space (architectural site, social and cultural context) in which it is placed. This is further enhanced by its relationship to the viewer in real time and space.