Will Nolan

Conversations: Selected artworks from 1998 to 2023

April 1 - May 26, 2024

Gallery 3 & 4

Exhibition Launch Saturday April 13 at 3-5pm

Artist Talk Thursday May 9 at 6-7.30pm

This exhibition, on view from 1 April to 26 May 2024 at the Hahndorf Academy presents examples of Will Nolan’s artworks range in date from 1998 to 2023. Composed primarily of large-scale photographs, Darkroom prints, Polaroids and examples of other iterations of his art practise, this exhibition allows an intimate insight into Nolan’s internal conversations with photography and how this interest has been shaped over the last 25 years. WILL NOLAN

Will Nolan, Breaking the Surface, 2020, Spray paint, inkjet on canvas

Will Nolan, Trace Elements #30, 2007, Pigment print on archival paper

Will Nolan, Will You Remember Me, 2014, Pigment print on archival paper

BIO: 

Will Nolan is an Australian artist known for his range of Contemporary photographic works. Born in Adelaide/Tarntanya in 1979, the artist is concerned with exploring the limits of photography as a medium. He employs genres traditionally reserved for the classical arts – still life and sculpture – to challenge the canon. He uses collage and installation to explore the potential of photography in a world where images are both ubiquitous and transient.

Nolan studied photography at North Adelaide School of Art, RMIT Melbourne and completed his studies at University of South Australia in 2008. Nolan has

exhibited in a variety of spaces including solo exhibitions at Galerie Pompom (NSW), CACSA (SA), FELT Space (SA) alongside group exhibitions Neoteric (SA), MOP Projects (NSW), Brenda May Gallery (NSW) and Benalla Art Gallery (VIC). Nolan has been short-listed in the Bowness Photography Prize, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and Olive Cotton Photographic Prize. His artworks have been published in magazines, including Art Monthly in Australia, Esquire in Russia and Kunstbeeld in the Netherlands.