Rose Nolan sends a message: ‘Breathing Helps’

Australian artist Rose Nolan will soon get a major solo exhibition at TarraWarra, where she dives into ‘the role of breath in labour and life’.
A floor to ceiling installation by Rose Nolan inside a gallery space. The installation comprises thousands of red and white hessian cloths, organised in a spiral formation with text that corresponds to the artwork title.

Australian artist Rose Nolan – known for her almost exclusive use of red and white with large-scale text-based pieces – is due for a major solo exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art this August.

Titled Breathing Helps, the exhibition brings together Nolan’s thought-provoking installations, including To Keep Going Breaking Helps (circle work) (2016-17), a tapestry of thousands of red and white hessian circles. Visitors are invited to walk into the work’s circular, open formation, where the text of the artwork title slowly reveals itself.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_