Flight of Fancy
Kate Nolan

In November 2021, Kate began working with a small group of students at St. Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, South Armagh, to represent their local area through photography, as part of my Masters by Research at the IADT, Dublin. Between November and February 2022, the seven students created hundreds of considered images, presenting how they view their local environment. Flight of Fancy illustrates the geographic, aesthetic and conceptual decisions of these young adults of South Armagh.

Funded by the Irish Research Council and supported by the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

Kate Nolan is an Irish visual artist specialising in extended photographic stories. Her practice involves working collaboratively with communities over time and exploring their circumstances through images and their text, illustrating the everyday lives of these communities. Her main interests lie in translating this material to visual narratives in a form of photobooks.
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