Eva Nolan is an emerging, Sydney-based artist currently undertaking a PhD in Art, Design & Media at UNSW Art, Design & Architecture.  Her research explores how contemporary drawing can engage with digital biodiversity records to visualise ecological relationships and multispecies entanglements.
 
Nolan's drawings are created beneath a magnifying lens, entwining myriad species within complex, speculative compositions. Her practice draws upon the observational and representational legacies of natural history illustration while reimagining how organisms might be depicted beyond the individual specimen. Through intricate aggregations of flora and fauna, her drawings express a curiosity and passion for the natural world, inviting attention to the fragile webs of relation that sustain them.

Nolan’s solo exhibitions include Entangled Ecologies, developed as part of her doctoral research, at Olsen Annexe, Sydney (2026); Entanglings at Olsen Gallery, Sydney (2023); and Biophilia at Olsen Annexe, Sydney (2020). She has exhibited internationally at Arts Catalyst, London (2020) and Xinying Cultural Centre, Tainan, Taiwan (2020).  Her work has been a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, the Kedumba Drawing Award, the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
 
Nolan has received Highly Commended at the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award (2021), was the recipient of the Drawing Award at the North Sydney Art Prize (2019), and winner of the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2018) and the Kudos Emerging Artist and Designer Award (2018).