Working Models, running from 18 March to 15 April 2023, comprises 20 small individual sculptures considering ideas of built architecture and the readymade. The occasion marks Nolan’s eighth solo exhibition in collaboration with Anna Schwartz Gallery, in a relationship spanning 34 years.

Assuming the language of the monument, Nolan’s scaled architectural models are materially comprised of modest and often discarded domestic packaging. Cement, wood, and steel attuned to the construction of suburban homes, factories, and water towers, are replicated with everyday paper, cardboard and wine screw tops – reimagining architectural buildings with domestic placeholders.

Image: ROSE NOLAN, James Turrell Fun Palace, 2023. Acrylic paint, cardboard, found packaging. Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.