Enjoy a recording of readings and conversation with artist Isabel Nolan, fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford and writer, curator and Director of CCA, Glasgow, Francis McKee from August 21st, 2021, following Nolan’s solo exhibition at Solstice A delicate bond which is also a gap.  The conversation begins with an introduction and reading by Sue Rainsford, followed by Isabel Nolan’s reading and a conversation between the speakers led by Francis McKee. The event ends with a Q&A led by Solstice Director Belinda Quirke. 

Ranging across a span of time A delicate bond which is also a gap began with woven images of the 40,000-year-old sculpture “Löwenmensch” and concluded with an ambitious, specially commissioned tapestry depicting the disintegration of the sun. The exhibition included new textile work, sculptures, drawings, painting and text.  

Isabel Nolan is a visual artist from Dublin. Her expansive practice incorporates sculpture, painting, textile works, photography, writing and works on paper. The subject matter in her work is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining the behaviour of humans and animals alike. Nolan is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.  

Sue Rainsford is an Irish fiction and arts writer living in Dublin. She is a recipient of the the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, the Kate O'Brien Award and a MacDowell Fellowship. She is the author of two novels, Follow Me To Ground and Redder Days.   

Francis McKee is Director since 2006 of the CCA, Glasgow, and a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. He curated the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale with Kay Pallister in 2003, and has written and co-published extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow. His first novel Even the Dead Rise Up is published by Bookworks.