Eva Nolan: Entangled Ecologies

Presented by OLSEN Gallery, Eva Nolan’s Entangled Ecologies is the culmination of her PhD research at UNSW Art, Design & Architecture. Nolan’s research explores multispecies relationships in the context of the current extinction crisis, employing drawing, animation, and digital design to highlight the fragile webs of interdependence between living things.

Her highly detailed drawings, produced beneath a magnifying glass, reference techniques of natural history illustration, paying homage to the craftsmanship and curiosity for the natural world cultivated within this tradition. Yet, her drawings also subvert the conventions of scientific representation. Drawing from photographs of species observations recorded on digital biodiversity platforms, Nolan adopts photography as a less invasive alternative to specimen collection.