Music: 

 

2022 Dark In The Glow album of poetry. Poems taken from Fragments Of Mind published by Shine Arts. 

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2020 Let's All Get Nervous, second Album.Independently released.

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2018 How is it how it is? - The Songs of Kevin Nolan

(Album of various artist's interpretations of the work of Kevin Nolan)

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2018 Absent At The Moment When He Took Up The Most Space - Selected Recording 1997 - 2005 (Retrospective conceptual Album)

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2017 You Know I Love You Baby (music in the third person) A split cassette tape release, released by 33/45 Records

 

2016 Musical Gallery curated by Dylan Tighe, funded by the Arts Council, song “The Coming of Complete Night”

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2015 It Made You, Compilation album produced by the Twilight programme and Gavin Glass, St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin

 

2014 Fredrick & The Golden Dawn, Debut Album. 

 

The Alternative with Chris Atwood Compilation

Russian Winter Records, Song “Splinter”

 

2013 'There is A Light' Compilation album by First Fortnight, song “Drowning”

 

Hot Press / NDT Winners Compilation Album, Head engineer Skip Christophers, Songs “Last Days Of Harry Carey” and ”Splinter”

 

2009 Here’s A Piece Of Ivan’s Head, EP.

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​​Selected Performances:

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2020 Zoom Screening of HUM Documentary film and Q&A Au Contraire Film Festival, Montreal

 

2018 Cursed Murphy's Laboratory 3, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford 

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2017 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, CCA Glasgow (SCO)

 

2017 Au Contraire Film Festival, Montreal (CAN)

 

2015 Kevin Nolan’s Hootenanny, First Fortnight,

St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin

 

Kevin Nolan & Friends, with Thomas Truax,

Workman’s Club, Dublin

 

2014 Fredrick & The Golden Dawn Album Launch,

The Grand Social, Dublin

 

2011 Supporting Julie Feeney, The Model Gallery, Sligo

                                                      

Hot Press Winners Concert, Button Factory, Dublin

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​​Music used in Film: 

 

2006 "Landslide" appeared on the soundtrack of the independent Irish film Apollo Music Club, RHL Films.

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Exhibitions:

 

2019 Kinderkurheim / A Vague Anxiety Irish Museum Of Modern Art 

Audio work installation with collaborator artist Susanne Wawra, as part of Wawra's collection of works in A Vague Anxiety Exhibition IMMA, The Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Military Rd, Co Dublin, Ireland

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2017 Wake Narrow The Naked Phrase 

A conceptual volume of poetry + accompanying installations. Nolan's second collaboration with Artist/poet Susanne Wawra. Exhibited in The Baby Forest Gallery, Co. Cork, Ireland

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2012 We are not the voices, they are but shadows now

Sound exhibition, Weimar, Germany in association with The Bauhaus-University, 12-minute piece

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2008 The Road To Natural Music

Art/Musica Festival Photography Exhibition, Arezzo, Italy

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Books: 

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2017 Wake Narrow The Naked Phrase & other poems 

A conceptual volume of poetry + accompanying installation. Nolan's second collaboration with Artist/poet Susanne Wawra. Volume of poems with foreword by Peter (Cursed) Murphy: journalist, spoken word performer and author, John The Revelator, Faber & Faber    

 

2015 Fragments Of Mind

A conceptual volume of poetry with Co-Author Susanne Wawra published with Shine Arts, Foreword by Patrick Deeley, The Hurly maker's Son, Doubleday Ireland. 

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2012 Vibrations Of The Soul

Self-published volume of Poetry with artwork by John Nolan, Foreword by Patrick Deeley, The Hurly maker's Son, Doubleday Ireland.​

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Selected Poetry Publications: 

 

2014 Boyne Berries 16

 

2013 Colony - The Galway Review - Decanto Magazine 

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2012 Maintenant 7 // The Shine News Letter

 

2010 The Jack Kerouac Family Association News Letter

 

2007 Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 96

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Film:

 

2017 'HUM' is a short documentary portrait of artist and musician Kevin Nolan. 

 

Selected Screenings and Prizes:

• Best Short Documentary, Guth Gafa International Film Festival (IE)

• Best Short Documentary Award, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, CCA Glasgow (SCO)

• Best Documentary Short, Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival (SP)

• Au Contraire Film Festival, Montreal (CAN)

• First Fortnight Festival 2018, Irish Film Institute, Dublin (IE)

• FICAE International Short Film and Art Festival (SP)

• Irish Shorts 5 – Documentary Portraits, Cork Film Festival (IE)

• Ficsam Festival, Faro (PT)

• Astra Film Festival (RO)

• Still Voices Short Film Festival (IE)

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2009 'Windswept' is a short experimental film directed by Nolan shot in the west of Ireland. Music composed by Berlin based Composer Brian Flynn, Engine Room Orchestra.  

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Theatre: 

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2017 Underscore, songs and acting in, The Sea Brothers AN ORIGINAL IRISH MUSICAL written by Joanna Crawley and Directed by Lee Wilson.    

  

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Selected PR: 

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2018 Panel talk and performance in The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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2018 Panel talk and performance in University Collage Dublin Cinema Stage, Dublin, Ireland.

 

2017 Panel talk and performance in Musée des beaux-arts de Montréa, Montreal, Canada.

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2016 Kevin Nolan – Fredrick & The Golden Dawn (Album Review), Pure M Magazine, 4.5 out of 5

 

2015 Locals Only, Radio NOVA, Interview + live performance

 

Gaba Jaworska's show on Radio na Life, live performance

 

Interview on Arena with Sean Rocks, RTÉ Radio 1

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2014 Interview on Arena with Sean Rocks, RTÉ Radio 1

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​​Awards: 

 

2017 Soul Noir Festival Exhibition,'Best In Show Award' for Album Fredrick & The Golden Dawn

 

2017 Best short Documentary Award, Hum, Arts Festival CCA Glasgow (SCO) 

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2017 Best short Documentary Award, Hum,Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival (SP)

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2016 Playground: Performing Arts Residency, supported by Arts & Disability Ireland and axis: Ballymun with funding from the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.