Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan is known for an enduring interest in material, process and repetition; her bold forms, constructed from utilitarian materials such as cardboard and hessian, are often shaped by physical labour and seriality.
Breathing Helps spans installations, photography, printed matter and text-based works. Here, recurring performative and spatial threads in Nolan’s practice are presented alongside new site-specific commissions responding to the museum’s architecture. To Keep Going Breathing Helps (circle work), 2016–7, is a highlight – a monumental spiral of stitched hessian circles suspended from the ceiling.
Rose Nolan, To Keep Going Breathing Helps (circle work), 2016–7, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, acrylic paint, hessian, embroidery thread, steel, Velcro, 420 × 600cm (overall). Courtesy the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art
9 August to 9 November 2025
Melbourne
