About Rose Nolan
Born 1959. Rose Nolan is an Australian painter.
Rose Nolan (born 1959) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne with work held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Career Nolan was a member of the group of artists who formed ‘Store 5’, a loose experimental collective and artist-run space based in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993. She was one of a group of Australian artists who were part a loose cooperative and space connected to the experimental Store 5 Melbourne ARI between 1989 and 1993. Nolan is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery. Bauhaus Now, Buxton Contemporary Art, Melbourne, curated by Ann Stephen, (2019) The National 2017; New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, (2017) Let's Talk About Text, Artbank, Sydney, (2017) Big Words – To keep going, breathing helps (circle work), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, (2016–17) Image Worth Reading, Key Projects, Long Island City, New York (2015) Performance Architecture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2013) Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013 Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, (2011) Work in Progress #3, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2002) My way to God # 1-30, Store 5, Melbourne, (1990) No.One, Store 5, Melbourne (1989) Rose Nolan, With all one’s might and main, Chris McAuliffe, Project Space, RMIT, 1996, (2014) Un Projects, Carolyn Barnes, Conflicted Territory: Aesthetics and practices in the work of Melinda Harper, Anne-Marie May, Rose Nolan and Kerrie Poliness, 2012) Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection Handbook, An orange constructed one, (2006) Frieze, Sue Cramer, Forever, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia, (2002)
Selected publications
Big Words (Not Mine) – Read the words 'public space'... Published by Negative Press, (2017) Enough, Rose Nolan, Limited edition, Published by Negative Press (2016) Rose Nolan, Why Do We Do The Things We Do, 2011, Eds.: Blair French, Robert Leonard, Published by Artspace Sydney and Institute of Modern Art. (2011)
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Australian painter (born 1959)
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