About
Emerging multidisciplinary artist Katie Nolan lives and works in Co Waterford, Ireland. She completed TU Dublin’s BA in Visual Art Hons. Degree Programme, Sherkin Island and graduated with first class honours in 2020.
Katie then completed TU Dublin’s inaugural MA Art and Environment, graduating in 2022 with a First. This masters programme uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, Island Studies and community engagement.
https://www.art-environment.com/
Katie’s art practice is grounded in transdisciplinary research and her current work is within the framework of Social Sculpture. She is driven by a fundamental interest in people and society in their everyday contexts. With a particular interest in the relationship between humans and technology, Katie is curios about human’s existential navigation of the rapidly changing world of work. She questions the possible entropic/negentropic outcomes due to advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. The focus of her practice has been on haptic perception, our automaticity and the human hand as technology, and more recently on the spatial and physical reality of our digital culture. Both artworks realised for her BA and MA degree shows were long+shortlisted for the prestigious RDS Visual Art Awards.
Katie has a keen interest in current discourse regarding the ontological turn in anthropology and indigenous ways of being and knowing.
In 2022 Katie was privileged to work as a mediator with the Ireland At Venice Team, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and artist, Niamh O’Malley representing Ireland at La Biennale Da Venezia with her beguiling work Gather.
Exhibitions and Workshops include:
SOLO
Neoteric Manipulation – Exhibition of Digital Paintings, St Peters Cork (2019).
GROUP
Aesthico-Estética En Ecologia, Mejor Con Menos CIM-UPCT, Cartagena, España (2023) | Fréamhaca/ Korin’Ja May Sunday Festival and Art Trail, in association with Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Co Cork (2023) | Remnants, Participatory Movement Workshop with Artist Tolu Oshodi, Venice Fellowship Programme, (2022) | Idir Sholas MA Art and Environment Graduate Show, Uilinn, West Cork Art Centre (2022) | Sensing the Environment - E.L.I.A. European Collaborative VR Exhibition, Amsterdam (2021) | INTERTIDAL BAVA Group Show, Sherkin Island and Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre (2020) | Stories From Lismore and Beyond Documenting our New Normal during Covid 19 Lockdown, Lismore Castle Arts (2020) | GRADEX, Dublin School of Creative Arts Online Exhibition, TU Dublin
(2020) | Do You See What I Mean? Video and Sound Installation, TU Dublin (2020) | 1:5.6 Social Sculpture Project, Film of a Performance, TU Dublin (2019) | Sounding the Anthropocene – Collaborative Sound Art Project, Open Ear Festival, Sherkin Island (2019) | Out of Sight Collaborative Wearable Art Performance, IMMA (2019) IMMA Mini Residency in response to their permanent collection with Artists Jesse Jones, Barbara Knezevic, John Beattie (2019) | I Was Replaced By A Machine, Installation TU Dublin (2018) | Neoteric Manipulation Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan (2018) | Digital Utopias, Cape Able Second Life Virtual Exhibition, TU Dublin (2017).