Isabel Nolan 
499 Seconds 
From 13th March

Exhibition in Richard Rogers Gallery 

"Life is often hard and without meaning in any grand, a priori sense. Art is a good way to find meaninglessness beautiful. Meaning must be invented. And those inventions must be contested and questioned, and never taken for granted." Isabel Nolan

Château La Coste is delighted to announce a solo exhibition titled 499 seconds by the multidisciplinary Irish artist, Isabel Nolan, which will feature painting, sculpture, and a large-scale new tapestry by the artist.

Nolan’s exhibitions are historically rooted in big subjects: cosmology and deep history; religion and mythology; and mortality and love. Her works are alert to the behaviour of humans regarding each other, other animals, the environment and objects alike. 

The acts of reading, drawing, and writing are indispensable processes for Nolan, to reflect on both the wider world and on herself, and these basic activities form the basis of the works in this exhibition. The paintings in 499 seconds are filled with vivid colour and fluid forms to create ethereal yet joyous canvases complete with movement and energy. Natural forms such as plants, waves and sunsets are present alongside patterns and geometric shapes verging on abstraction.

Nolan’s works pose fundamental questions about the way in which the chaos of the world is made beautiful or given meaning through human activity: celebrating the profoundly normal, yet very strange experience of being alive and the delicate nature of existence, and the extraordinary fact that it takes exactly 499 seconds for light leaving the sun to reach the surface of our earth.