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Nollaig Molloy

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Nollaig Molloy (b. 1989) is a visual artist from County Roscommon, Ireland. She works with moving image, sculptural installation and sound while sometimes using workshop and event-based outcomes, to explore landscape through material means. Her research connects the labouring of land, 'materials-to-hand', formal and informal archives, handcrafted objects, and community groups through poetic and abstract discoveries.

She graduated from Belfast College of Art in 2020, where she received a Master of Fine Art. Molloy was recently awarded an Agility Award in 2021 from the Arts Council of Ireland and presented a solo exhibition Retreat To Stone, Stone in Retreat (2021) at Catalyst Arts Belfast. Her past projects include Sounding the Shore (2018) a series of live radio broadcasts from a lake boat on a 53km long lake on the River Shannon; creating vocal scores with an improvisational choir in Hand to Mouth (2019) and a film titled Worth Your Salt (2020) juxtaposing rock salt, taken from a working salt mine in Northern Ireland, alongside the value of analogue and digital film. 
 

From October to December 2022, Nollaig Molloy was a resident at Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum.

Xanten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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