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Lucille Nolan

Lucille Nolan comes from a traditional printmaking background and the layering and reworking processes that she utilizes in her drawings and digital photography imitates the development of traditionally printed images as they move through progressive states.

Technically her work blurs the line between the mechanical and the hand crafted. Scissors, paint, sticky tape, photocopies and computers are all used at the intermediary stage
to create architecturally impossible landscapes.

By creating images of strong, usually concrete structures that look as though they could exist in the world, weaknesses are revealed to expose a lack of stability and potentially an inability to support the weight they bear.

Lucille's work addresses the human condition and its symbolic metaphors. Symbols
such as bridges, water and reflections are important to her work. Water has traditionally
been seen as a symbol of the unconscious mind and philosophers such as Gaston Bachelard and
the psychoanalyst Carl Jung have written extensively about it.

Artist Statement
Light reflects off the surfaces of objects to create in each person their own viewpoint of the
world. We can only see what each surface chooses to reveal and from this our understanding of
the world and the people in it is created. We are only able to receive fleeting glimpses
of what lies beneath the surface and as such our understanding of the world can only ever
be incomplete, fragmentary and shifting.
To explore the tension between surface and depth the reflective qualities of water have been
exploited to create an environment which is at once familiar and foreign. Architectural and
perceptual impossibilities have been created so that the images no longer refer to a specific
reality but to a subjective created reality, a shifting psychological landscape. My work seeks to
remind us that what is reflected back to us is only a fraction of what lies beneath the surface, that reflections can distract us from seeing what is really there.

Country: United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Site:

Contact: lucillenolan3@yahoo.com.au

Biography:

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts RMIT 2001
in Printmaking

Selected Group Exhibitions

City Spaces Urban Stories
Vyner Street Gallery, London
October 2008

Bumbershoot Studios Group Show
Whitechapel
March 2008

Nu Arte: Episode VI, Hello and Goodbye.
Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
July 2006

Through a Stranger’s Eyes
Arts-Aporia, Osaka
Dec-Jan 2005

Design Festa
Tokyo International Exhibition Centre, Tokyo
Nov 2005


Under the Blankets
Graduate Printmaking Show
Pre View Gallery, Melbourne
November 2000


Solo Exhibitions

Don’t go into the Woods
The Victorian Museum of Experimental Art, Melbourne
Oct 2004

Uncertain Reflection
First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2001




Awards

Nu Arte: Episode VI
Digital Photography Award
July 2006
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