NACRE - Poetry & Painting from Jo & Paul Nolan

Commitment to ambiguity, the beauty of shifting light and the enigmatic quality of luminescence. Childhood wanderings on the sand with the women in our lives finding mother of pearl. Fascination with the seductive translucent fragments washed from the ocean. Ancient nacreous layers, lustrous, structural, inner armour designed to protect the soft tissues. Order and disorder in the shifting colours, built slowly through time and circumstance. Inner resilience forged through aggregations, layers and crystallizations. Tiny abstract compressions of grander narratives. We learned to swathe ourselves in nacreous armour to reflect, refract and defract the light and to survive in the dark.

Simonides said that painting is silent poetry and that poetry is painting that speaks. This is the second exhibition between brother and sister, although their ongoing dialogue springs from years of primary experiences and quiet observation. Paul Nolan and Jo Nolan grew up in coastal New South Wales. They spent their best years wandering in nature and making art and music with their family. They later formalised their understandings through qualifications and practice.

aether

into

this ancient

space

drops

a quintessence

of zero timeframes

harmless feelings

unmeasured judgements

and all the time

in the unhurried

world

D/O.69 NACRE will open

Thursday March 2nd from 5-7pm

Paul & Jo Nolan’s work will be on display from

March 2nd through March 18th at Disorder Gallery.