Angela Nolan

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

Fragmented and unstable, narrative passes through images and materials, eliciting meaning and emotion.

My practice observes the interplay between photograph, material and the picture plane, drawing out this interaction through processes of collage and assemblage. Subject matter must be both subverted and relied upon. Revealing and concealing, the works present a shift between states of being, holding the viewer’s gaze in moments, or windows, of awareness.

Abstractions of narrative and language in the works notably relate to the dialogue of conceptualism: how is meaning evoked and constructed through signification? How does it circulate within and outside the picture plane?

Embodying a condition of flux, the image-material compositions conjure forms of longing and evocation, which again become lost in time.