Nolan Preece

Nolan Preece has been a photographer for over 40 years and has devoted his work to understanding and mastering early photographic techniques, as well as new processes such as the chemigram (1980) and experimental processes he discovered in the late 1970s using cliché-verre. His materials include platinum, silver gelatin, cibachrome and digital prints. His work is a part of several collections including the Nevada Museum of Art, Logan, Utah and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah. Nolan uses the cliché-verre technique by smoking the surface of the glass plate with a kerosene lamp. He further continued his experimentation by seeing what would happen if he dripped mineral spirits onto the smoke, a process that creates a chemigram, which, in result, creates beautiful images.

The work presented in this exhibition was curated and hand-picked by the former director of The Lilley, Paul Baker Prindle and together serves as a retrospective of Nolan's work from 1979 to the present (2019) and showcases his journey working with chemistry.