Kate Nolan · Visual Storyteller
Illustrations
My goal as a visual narrative designer is to craft stories with words and images. Behind every image and sentence is a process that includes research to build and create character, plot, world, art and an aesthetic. Ideas are played with, collided, disrupted and pieced back together to create novelty. The images included in this gallery are a small taste of work being undertaken to create an interactive handcrafted story, organized into a series of chapters that explores non-linear time, ancestry and the journey of becoming.
Throwback
Anne’s story could be anyone’s story. We are all miracles, born into this world, created from complex ancestral interconnections, and the unique gifts we are born with that we discover as we become.
Anne
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2025
I walk the labyrinth carrying memories and emotions that are not mine
Two Ancestral Lines
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2026
My parents are links to everyone and everywhere before I was born
Ancestors Reach Out
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2025
From an early age I felt the presence of my ancestors
Anne Traveling
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2025
From the moment I remembered my dreams and the stories of wake time, I became a traveller
Rainbow Serpent
One of Anne’s ancestral gifts comes in the form of an egg that contains Rainbow Serpent, a link to a place and memories of people from long long ago.
Map of Australia
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2026
Long before I was born, Rainbow Serpent carved the land and waterways
Anne and Rainbow Serpent
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2025
Close to my side was Rainbow Serpent
Australian Portal
Medium: Acrylic inks
Size: A3
Year: 2025
We travelled together
Kate Nolan | Visual Storyteller 