Aoife Nolan's successfully operated her own fashion business for over a decade before going to art college. Aoife describes this change like a switch, like shutting one door and opening another. In the Crawford College of Art and Design, she was awarded the RHA student access programme and her graduate show received several awards.  She has exhibited in Ireland and in the Endicott College, Massachusetts in the US. 

Aoife describes her work as the merging of interior and exterior landscape and her work is inspired our need for connection and for connection to the earth.

Aoife's practice includes experimental processes, such as corroding copper, making her own pigments from natural materials and harvesting rainwater. 

Aoife chats to Éadaoin about:

• thinking like an artist
• making the decision to go to art college
• the experience of art college during Covid
• Her experimental processes
• Natural materials
• How she makes copper ink
• Using seaweed as a pigment and for printing
• Her creative process both outside and in the studio
• Her favourite brushes
• Her favourite paper
• Inspiration
• The best advice she received
• Her advice for anyone thinking of going to art college
• Her upcoming exhibition

Full show notes and images are available.

See Aoife's work on Instagram @aoife_nolan_

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com