Staff

Collette Nolan
Lecturer
Fine Art & Applied Art
BIO

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Fine Art Experimental Video Installation 

Collette is a Cork based visual artist, researcher and educator working in the medium of experimental video and installation. she completed an MA by Research at CCAD and a PhD by Practice in Media at NCAD and the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin, (GradCAM) www.gradcam.ie. She is a director/studio holder of the Cork Artists Collective and is a Fine Art lecturer at the Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. 

Collette’s areas of research in her practice and collaborative research with other artists and Crawford colleagues involve phenomenology, pedagogy, experimental film/sound and installation. 

PhD Title : Extimacy: Revealing the Hidden Embodied Gestures of Child's Play Through Video Art Installation.

She has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally.

2018 Publication – From Space to Place: Non-hierarchical Collaborative Strategies of Teaching and Learning at the Crawford College of Art & Design. Collaborative research project by Collette Nolan and Bill O’Flynn and students of CCAD. (Photo Collette Nolan)

 


 

Collette Nolan, Digital Photo. From Exhibition ‘Close To Hand’ Crawford Gallery, Curated by Dawn Williams.

 

 

RESEARCH OUTPUTS

 

November 2019 - June 2021:

Conferences and Presentations  

2021/22: MTU/CCAD Teaching & Learning Unit/AnSEO Transitions funding award for Year 3 Project – Collette Nolan - ‘Transitioning Together’ - Fine Art and Contemporary Applied Art students.   

2020: July/Aug 2020 QUARANZINE: workshop with Chicago based artist Marc Fischer – Organised by Megs Morley Create-Ireland - Reading Room.   

2020: Collette Nolan and Bill O'Flynn Re:Thinking the Crit Symposium, Technological University Dublin, Invited Paper and PowerPoint Presentation, and inclusion of new essay in forthcoming peer reviewed publication 2020/1. Funded by National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, TUD and TLU CIT/CCAD.  

TLU Transitions to CIT Funded project, Joint Art and Architecture Y1 event. Lecture by Architecture lecturer Mark Price, TUD School of Architecture, Pop-Up Show in the CIT Architecture Factory and attendance of all Year 1 at Re:Thinking the Crit Symposium TU Dublin. (Co-Researcher Colleague Bill O Flynn) 

2019: Collette Nolan and Bill O Flynn. Presentation at Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, Conference UCC – “Place and Performativity - How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art?” Power Point, Lightening talk.  

CIT/TLU Collette Nolan and Bill O Flynn Breakfast Session research presentation, From Space to Place Non-hierarchical Teaching and Learning Strategies. (invited) Nov. 2019.  

EFYE Conference June 2019, CIT, (selected) “Critique Workshop” PowerPoint Presentation and Paper. Poster presentation. (Co-Researcher Colleague Bill O Flynn): 

2020: TLU Transitions to CIT Funding Project - Collette Nolan and Bill O Flynn - Joint Y1 and Y2 Fine Art and Contemporary Applied Art Departments - Artists digital Book/ Zine project ‘Transitions from CO-19 to CIT Crawford’.   

Film Screenings:

2021: 100 Years of Change Project 

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork.  

 http://www.glucksman.org/projects/100-years-of-change 

Commissioned film/poem (Collaboration with poet Gerry Murphy) by The Lewis Glucksman Gallery and Age & Opportunity, Bealtaine Festival 2019, Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. May 2020: Glucksman online re-screening of Film Poem. Re-screening of Film poem Strokestown Poetry Festival, Strokestown Park House, Co. Roscommon.  

Ongoing Research: June 2020: (with Padraig Trehy )- Crawford Film Forum and Cork Indie Film Festival Funded by CIT/TLU Learning Communities. 

Crawford Film Forum Online Film and Video Clinics for CIT Students and graduates Funded by CIT/TLU Learning Communities. 

 

RELATED COURSE

 

BA (Honours) in Fine Art