| “ | 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. |
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Country: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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 |
