About

Densely layered and detailed, visually and thematically complex, Norah Lovell’s fragmented narratives draw from various genres and motifs from historical wallpaper and textile design to animal stories in children’s books and the internet. In recent work she has been printing her own designs on fabric to create utilitarian and wearable objects, and painting into found objects and architecture. Increasingly, her work centers the non-human perspectives of animals on a human world careening at tipping point. She exhibits nationally and internationally, teaches interdisciplinary humanities courses at Tulane University and is a member of the artist-run collective and gallery Staple Goods in New Orleans. Her residencies include the Emily Harvey Foundation, Italy; International Scholars and Curators Program, New York; Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans; Cill Rialaig Arts Centre and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland (upcoming 2025). Her work is included in the permanent collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and featured in Hyperallergic’s A View from the Easel.