Nola Farman

Artist
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Nola Farman is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Western Sydney. Her topic is The Artists’ Book and Bookworks. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto in 1966. Her art practice is diverse ranging from large environmental works through installations to artists’ books and other bookworks. She has been commissioned to make large public artworks in various parts of Australia including, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Perth. The installations often include sound, video and electronic components. Ms Farman's bookworks have been collected by The Baltic Centre, Gateshead, UK; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Metropole, Toronto; Pays-Paysage, St-Yrieix-la-Perche, France; Te Papa the National Gallery and Canterbury Gallery, New Zealand; Scitech Discovery Centre Perth; Janet Holmes a Court; Lady Sheila Cruthers and numerous private collections in Europe and North America.
Ms Farman has received a number of awards including an Australia Council Two Year Fellowship (1997) and two Premier's Awards, namely the  Western Australian Civic Design Award (1995)and the Predominantly Landscape Environment Award (1995) in association with Forbes and Fitzhardinge Woodland, Architects and Urban Planners. In the same year she received the Mundaring Arts Centre Inaugural Prize for Self-portraiture. The East Perth Redevelopment of the Claisebrook Greenway received the L.I.N. Award of Excellence and Nola Farman was a Public Art Consultant on that team working  with Tract Landscape Architects. In 1991 she was awarded a Diploma of Honor at the Prix Ars Electronica, in Linz, Austria (for The lift Project). Ms Farman has also received a number of project grants from the Australia Council, the Australian Network for Art and Technology and the West Australian Department for the Arts.

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