Thresholds

Thresholds is an exhibition of hot glass works by Laura Nolan. Her work experiments with breath, glass and gravity. Breath and gravity being two essential life-giving forces, the sculptural works are explorations of making these invisible forces visible.  

Laura Nolan is an emerging artist based in Sydney. Currently a research candidate of a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney College of the Arts, she works with hot glass as a predominant medium and incorporates a diverse range of expanding disciplines within her sculptural installations. 

Nolan views her process as a way of connecting with Presence. Engaging in making as a meditation, regarding her practice as prayer, art making is intrinsically motivated as a spiritual experience. Passionately motivated to make art in response to current social, spiritual and environmental issues, Nolan strives to push both the materials’ and her own boundaries.

Laura Nolan’s finalist awards include the forthcoming 2021 Wollongong Acquisitive Sculpture Award at Wollongong Botanic Gardens, 2020 and 2018 National Emerging Glass Artist Prize, the 2019 Blacktown City Arts Prize, 2018 Clyde and Co Art Awards, 2018 Greenway Art Prize and the 2016 Rookwood Hidden Sculpture Prize. 

COVID Safe procedures will be in place at the gallery: keeping a record of people for contact tracing purposes; offering hand sanitiser; limiting people to 12 at a time; ensuring social distancing.