Breathing Helps maps four decades of Rose Nolan's practice through the recurring spatial, performative, and graphic threads that connect her painting, photography, and printmaking to the legacies and residues of modernism.
About This Book
Published alongside Nolan's major solo exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Breathing Helps is the most comprehensive survey of a practice that has long occupied the productive overlap between art, architecture, and language. Naarm/Melbourne-based, Nolan works with scale, material, and medium to interrogate the graphic codes of modernism — not reverently, but playfully. Her crystallised colour and powerfully graphic sensibility bridge spatial practice, sculpture, and text in ways that resist easy categorisation. The book documents new site-specific commissions made in direct response to TarraWarra's architecture, making it as much a record of place as of practice. Essential reading for those interested in contemporary Australian art and its relationship to architectural space.
Key Features
- 176 pages of exhibition documentation, reproductions of painting, photography, and printmaking across a four-decade career
- Edited by Dr Victoria Lynn, Dan Rule, and Justine Ellis
- Includes documentation of new site-specific commissions responding to TarraWarra Museum of Art's architecture
- Published by Perimeter Editions, ISBN: 9781922545480
What You'll Discover
- How Nolan's graphic sensibility operates as a bridge between the codes of architecture, spatial practice, sculpture, and language
- The recurring spatial and performative threads that connect works made across four decades of practice
- Site-specific commissions created in direct dialogue with TarraWarra Museum of Art's architecture
- The ways in which painting, photography, and printmaking function together in Nolan's interrogation of modernism's legacies and residues
About the Author
Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan has built a four-decade practice centred on experimentation with scale, material, and medium. Her work — spanning painting, photography, and printmaking — engages playfully with the legacies of modernism through a crystallised use of colour and a powerfully graphic sensibility that connects spatial practice, sculpture, and language.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 21 x 27 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545480
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and spatial practitioners interested in the intersection of art and built form; designers drawn to modernist graphic traditions; collectors and students of contemporary Australian art; readers engaged with site-specific and exhibition-led publishing.