VCA ART 2021

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.

Angela Nolan, Untitled (bodywork 1), Screenprint on paper, 2021.
Angela Nolan, Installation view, Screenprints on screen mesh, aluminium and paper, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Angela Nolan, Installation view, Screenprints on mesh and aluminium, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Angela Nolan, Untitled, Screenprint on paper, 2021.
Angela Nolan, Untitled Grid (for Damiano), Screenprint on paper, 2021.
Angela Nolan, Detail of Untitled (bodywork 2), Screenprint on mesh silk, 2021.
Angela Nolan, Untitled (composite 1), Screenprints on paper, 2021.
Angela Nolan, Untitled (composite 2), Screenprints on paper, 2021.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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