As part of the 45th Anniversary of Belfast Print Workshop, Nollaig will read from her book and give a talk on her art practice and the processes she used to create the artist publication.
'Retreat to Stone, Stone in Retreat' is a publication containing personal texts which resonated with archaeological and industrial sites in Nollaig's rural locality. These places are inhabited by limestone outcrops, hawthorn trees and gorse bushes; the ever-present yet changing characteristics of the land.
The texts present memories of exploring ringforts as a child, digital and real-time experiences of earth works and the material economy of limestone and gorse flower.
These materials occur in the form of screen-printed limestone ink and flocked gorse petal fibres within the publication.
Image detail: Retreat To Stone, Stone in Retreat (2021) Publication. Edition of 26.
Limestone and charcoal ink, gorse flower flock fibres, acetate and 90gsm tracing paper, 120gsm and 150gsm Munken Pure Rough and 210gsm Sirio Color Gialloro
Printed with the support of a Development Residency at Belfast Print Workshop. The publication was created in parallel to Nollaig's solo exhibition, of the same title, as Catalyst Arts Graduate Awardee in 2020.
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