Artist
Born Kilkenny 1978, Seamus Nolan is an artist living and working in Dublin. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a first class honours degree in sculpture in 2004.
His work has been shown in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2002/03, Intermedia 2002 at Triskel, Cork, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2003, the City Arts Centre, Dublin, 2003, and the Signal Arts Centre, Bray 2002, 2003, and 2004. In 2005 he took part both in 'Communism' and, 'Artcirq / Seamus Nolan' at the Project Arts Centre, and in an exhibition in Fota House. He showed in EV+A in 2006. He has also been selected as the Irish candidate for Agorafolly, as part of Europalia '07.
Recipient of an artists bursary from the Arts Council '06. He has been awarded a studio placement by Independent Artists’ Studios in Temple Bar, a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and recently received Wexford County Council’s inaugural Emerging Visual Artist Award.
"My practice investigates the relative value of objects and social processes as they appear within different economies and contexts. In my work, I try to unravel the commonplace, to recognise the inherent structure or code from which we, as social and political animals construct and de-construct the world around us. My work is concerned with power relations, energy and possibility, and I am interested in reconfiguring the everyday as a means to examine or question the purveyors of meaning".
"My interest in active community organisations has led me to work with and talk to a multitude of individuals and groups in the Ballymun area. A developmental mode of practice, of open engagement with the community has incorporated a number of children’s projects and the setting up of a local bicycle lobbying campaign. Hotel Ballymun is a large scale sculptural performance, resulting out of this period of research. The work operates in conjunction with local community groups, and invites both a national and international audience to interact on a very personal level with this local activity, with the piece and most importantly, with the context of its presentation, Ballymun.”
Seamus Nolan, February 2007.
To contact the artist please e-mail akashea02@hotmail.com