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Kate Nolan is an Irish visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland, focused on extended photographic stories that examine the nature of identity.
Drawn to "in-between" places, she is intrigued by the effects of shifting histories of areas in flux. Nolan collaborates with local communities over extended periods to give voice to these changes.
Her latest project LACUNA, is a multi-disciplinary project considering the contemporary experience, physical and psychological impact of the partition on the children of the borderlands. LACUNA has been exhibited widely since it’s first solo in the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland in September - October 2017 and is currently touring in Ireland. This work has been funded by the Irish Arts Council and Irish Research Council.
Her work is held in public and private collections in Japan, USA, France, Portugal, Mexico, UK and Ireland.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Nov 23–Dec 23 Centre Culturel Irlandais, LACUNA solo exhibition, Paris, France.
RECENT AWARDS
June 2023 Arts Council Ireland - Awarded the Visual Arts Bursary.
October 2021 Irish Research Council. Awarded the Government of Ireland Postgraduate scholarship. This award will assist my Masters by Research practice-led research project at the Institute of Art Design + Technology, Dublin.
May 2021 Gallery of Photography Ireland. Commissioned by the Gallery of Photography Ireland to mark the Centenary of Partition creating new work with the composer Irene Buckley funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Exhibited in November 2021 as part of ‘In Our Own Image - photography in Ireland 1839 to the present’.
EDUCATION
2022 Masters of Arts by Research, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin.
2010 BA (Hons) Documentary Photography, University of Wales, Newport, Wales.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Jul - Aug 2022 PhotoIreland Festival, Images are All We Have, group exhibition showing Kilbroney Integrated Primary from the series LACUNA ll & featuring Neither photobook.
Jun - Aug 2022 Photo Museum Ireland, The Politics of Place, group exhibition showing new works from LACUNA lll.
Mar - May 2022 Street Level Photoworks, Invisible Britain - This Separated Isle, Group exhibition curated by Paul Sng with my portrait commission of Susie Donaghy for the book of same title.
Jan - Mar 2022 Gallery of Photography, National Photographic Collection exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
Jan - Feb 2022 Ffotogallery, Invisible Britain - This Separated Isle, Group exhibition curated by Paul Sng with my portrait commission of Susie Donaghy for the book of same title.
Jan 2022 ON POSSIBILITIES OF FRICTION Exhibition, Group exhibition curated by Ilaria Sponda with images from LACUNA series. The exhibition sees twenty-two authors whose practice and situatedness are heterogeneous, dialoguing around the representation of people in the contemporary socialscape and related issues.
Sep - Nov 2019 Market Place Arts Centre Armagh, LACUNA solo exhibition, new works, Armagh, Co. Armagh.
Aug 2019 Droichead Arts Centre, Flead Ceoil – Portraits solo exhibition, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
May 2019 Nerve Centre Gallery, Field Notes from the Border #3 - LACUNA, group exhibition, Derry, Ireland.
Mar 2019 Gallery of Photography, Field Notes from the Border #1 - LACUNA group exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
Nov 2018 Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Neither exhibition as part of the 100th year anniversary of Russian women's right to vote, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Jul - Sept 2018 Gallery of Photography, LACUNA new works, Reframing the Border, Dublin, Ireland.
Jul 2018 An Gailearaí, LACUNA solo exhibition, Gweedore, Donegal, Ireland
Apr - May 2018 Remote Photo Festival, LACUNA exhibition Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland.
Sep - Oct 2017 Gallery of Photography, LACUNA solo exhibition. Dublin, Ireland.
Jun 2017 New Irish Works, LACUNA presentation and publication in The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.
Nov 2016 New Irish Works, LACUNA presented at Centre Culturel Irlandais during Paris Photo.
Oct 2016 In Residence II, LACUNA screened in Oliver Sears Gallery exhibition of modern & contemporary Irish art in London, England.
Oct 2016 leboudoir2.0, LACUNA screened on the occasion of the Monat der Fotografie-Off in Berlin, Germany.
Aug 2016 Landskrona Foto, Neither part of View Ireland at Landskrona, Sweden.
RESIDENCIES
Aug 2023 Cowhouse Studios, Ireland. Residency to support testing and printing for upcoming exhibition of LACUNA at Centre Cultural Irlandais.
Jul 2023 The Shelter, Arles, France. Residency to support research for upcoming exhibition of LACUNA with curator Natasha Christia.
2018 - 2020 Walkers Photographer-in-Residence, Dublin, Ireland. Selected for the first Photographer-in-Residence programme supported by Walkers and Docklands Art Fund run by Business to Arts.
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020 The Digital Hub, Selected as artist-in-residence in the Digital Hub, Dublin 8 with an exhibition in March 2020.
Apr-May 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA. Selected for artist residency in Headlands to continue work and research around borders.
2019 Artist in Residence, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland.
Sep 2018 Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. Selected for The Baltic Sea: a Liquid Memorial residency responding to the border space of the Curonian Spit with Lithuanian, Russian and Dutch artists. Led by Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz.
Jun-Aug 2017 Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland. Selected for summer artist's studios to support the preparation for my solo exhibition at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin.
PUBLICATIONS
February 2022, Stories from the Docklands, publication documenting three years of working with TY students in CBS Westland Row, 2018-20 as Walkers Photographer-in-Residence in partnership with Business to Arts and the Docklands Arts Funds.
September 2021, Invisible Britain: This Separated Isle, portrait commission and interview of Susie Donaghy, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
November 2018, Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience, portrait commission and interview of Michelle Moss, Pettigo, Ireland.
May 2018, feature and interview on LACUNA by Pavel Barter for Sunday Times, Ireland.
December 2017, LACUNA reviewed by Rebecca O'Dwyer for Source Photographic Review magazine, N Ireland.
November 2017, LACUNA reviewed by Justin Carville for Visual Artists Ireland Newsheet, Ireland.
October 2017, LACUNA reviewed by AIdan Dunne for Irish Times.