Séamus Nolan’s practice relates a critique of its own legitimacy, each context and set of concerns is tested against the subject, in an attempt to unravel basic beliefs and inform a process of equivalence. His work is concerned with assembling alternative power relations, energy and possibility, in reconfiguring the everyday as a means to examine or question the purveyors of meaning. Nolan’s work often operates in conjunction with local community groups, and invites both a national and international audience to interact on a very personal level with this local activity, with the piece of work itself, and most importantly, with the context of its presentation.
Nolan is a curator in residence in the Linenhall arts centre Castlebar. Recent artwork includes Rooftop Squat, Architecture and Activism, The Spare Room Project, Cork; Traveller Collection at the Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery and Fourthspace, Inhabiting the Bagieon, Athens, Greece.