Evin Nolan Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1930 - d. 2016

Michael Evin Nolan (21 July 1930 – 22 July 2016) was an Irish abstract painter and sculptor. His work is often distinguished by vibrant colours and geometric forms.

Nolan attended Terenure College and the National College of Art in Dublin's Kildare Street. He won two Royal Dublin Society-sponsored Taylor Awards in 1954, one for watercolours, and another for landscapes, and first exhibited at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1955 and at the Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA, in 1956, before relocating to London for a few years.

By the early 1960s, Nolan was back in Dublin drawing cartoons for Dublin Opinion and other publications, while his art gradually transitioned from watercolours and oil landscapes to abstract art and sculpture. His first solo show was at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1963, and he was an active member in the establishment of the Project Arts Centre in Abbey Street in 1966-67.