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• Name: Lucille Nolan
• Location: London, United Kingdom

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Signup Date: November 23, 2008
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Statement
I come from a traditional printmaking background and the layering and reworking processes that I utilize in my drawings and digital photography imitates the development of traditionally printed images as they move through progressive states.

Technically my 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.

My 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.

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.

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Printmaking Major, RMIT, 2001

Biography
Awards

Nu Arte: Episode VI Digital Photography Award, July 2006

Solo shows

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

Uncertain Reflection, 2002
First Site Gallery, Melbourne

Group Shows

2008
City Spaces Urban Stories,
Vyner Street Gallery, London

Easter Poltergeist,
Bumber Shoot Studios, London

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

Through a Stranger’s Eyes, Design Festa,
Arts-Aporia, Osaka

2005
Design Festa,
Tokyo International Exhibition Centre

2002-2003
Kiss My Art,
Sydney Road, Melbourne

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

Treasury,
Treasury Place, Melbourne

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