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176 pages, 27 x 21 cm, Swiss-bound softcover
Perimeter Editions 116
ISBN: 978-1-922545-48-0
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Rose Nolan
Breathing Helps

Across a four-decade career, acclaimed Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan has made a name for her experimentation with scale, material, and medium. Utilising painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking to playfully engage with the legacies and residues of modernism, her crystallised use of colour and powerfully graphic sensibility has formed a bridge between the codes of architecture, spatial practice, sculpture, and language.

Published alongside the major solo exhibition of the same name at TarraWarra Museum of Art, the major new book Breathing Helps highlights the recurring spatial and performative threads that play out across Nolan’s practice, alongside documentation of new site-specific commissions that respond to the museum’s architecture. Spanning installations, screenprints, photography, and text-based works, Breathing Helps offers a fresh encounter with Nolan’s radically reduced red-and-white aesthetic, and her enduring interest in material, process, and repetition. Constructed from utilitarian materials such as hessian and cardboard, her bold forms are often shaped by physical labour and seriality. Within the publication – as within the exhibition – viewers are encouraged to move in and around Nolan’s forms, encountering the work via multiple spatial perspectives, and revealing embedded texts through motion and participation.

Co-published by Perimeter Editions and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Breathing Helps features new texts by Dr Victoria Lynn, Sue Cramer, Amelia Winata, and Lisa Radford, and a conversation between Rose Nolan and Augusta Vinall Richardson. The publication also includes images from Nolan’s ongoing Me Working series, which features everyday process documentation from the studio, and a performance map from artist and choreographer Shelley Lasica, who – in an interdisciplinary gesture – was invited by Nolan to present a series of choreographic performances, titled COLLOQUY, that navigate the spaces and ideas of the exhibition.

The exhibition Rose Nolan: Breathing Helps shows at TarraWarra Museum of Art, 9 August to 9 November 2025. Curated by Dr Victoria Lynn.

This publication was supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.


98 pages, 14.5 x 22 cm, OTA-bind softcover with flaps
Perimeter Editions 102
First Edition of 800
ISBN: 978-1-922545-29-9
Publication date: April 2024
Printed by Wilco Art Books, Netherlands
Published by Perimeter Editions
Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes, Dan Rule
Text: Fritz Haeg
Design: Narelle Brewer for Perimeter Bureau
Lithography: Mariska Bijl, Wilco Art BooksRose Nolan is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and educator, whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking. Nolan has undertaken international studio residencies at leading institutions including the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn; the Greene Street Studio, SoHo, New York; the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; and the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. She has delivered a series of major, site-responsive public art commissions in Australia. These include All Alongside of Each Other (2023), Central Station, Sydney; YOU / ME / US / HERE / NOW (2022), Hallam Station, Melbourne; ENOUGH / NOW / EVEN / MORE / SO (2021), Queen Victoria Community Hub, Melbourne, and GIVE OR TAKE (2017) at Monash University.

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