ROSE NOLAN

Rose Nolan was born in 1959 in Melbourne, where she continues to live and work. One of a group of significant Australian artists who formed a loose association around the experimental and innovative Store 5 artist-run space in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993, Nolan’s work traverses forms and ideals founded in utopian strands of twentieth-century avant-gardism. Adopting the language of abstraction and revolutionary aesthetics, Nolan typically uses a reduced palette of red and white, and simple, inexpensive, utilitarian materials to create banners, posters, pamphlets, paintings and large-scale installations. Her practice references various art historical legacies, such as early modernism, Russian constructivism and 1960s conceptual art, and is a critical representation of abstraction infused with personal content and contemporary experience.