Isabel Nolan will launch her new publication, A delicate bond which is also a gap, with an event in Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, on Thursday 7 March from 6pm. During the event, Nolan will appear in conversation with Francis Halsall, writer, lecturer and co-director of Masters Programs: Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, Dublin. 

Isabel Nolan’s A delicate bond which is also a gap features work from her comprehensive 2021 exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, alongside new work which has followed the show. The exhibition alluded to a vast span of time bringing together drawings, sculpture, two woven images of the 40,000-year-old sculpture “Löwenmensch”, “Miracle Wave 2698 CE” and concluding with the ambitious, specially commissioned tapestry summoning images of the disintegrating sun “When the sky above will not be named”. Designed with Oonagh Young, the publication features texts by the artist; Irish fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford; Berlin-based writer and critic Martin Herbert, and an introduction by Solstice director Belinda Quirke.

“The bonds that make us less lonely, that enable us to inhabit this world, seem to defy time and space. They connect us across all kinds of intervals - sonic, spatial, somatic and temporal. These delicate bonds that are also gaps are sub-atomic, social and aesthetic, both fundamental and a matter of convention. It is not miraculous but it can feel as near as dammit. We are the brief emanations of fields that are quantum, electromagnetic, gravitational, chemical, mental, and cultural. We work perpetually to understand each other, the universe, and ourselves. We do this over and over again, alone but together”.

- Isabel Nolan