DAVID NOONAN fuses image with image in evocative and uncanny treatments of materials, objects and figures. Noonan reworks archival photographs of people, places and events to produce an almost cinematic sense of shared time and space. His paneled sculptures, bleach paintings, collages, silk-screens, wallpapers and films intrigue and disquiet with their compelling convergence of myth and realism.

Noonan’s work explores the inner workings of memory, connotation, and sentiment. His amalgams of documents and textures resonate with a psychic force, producing fictional histories and imaginary landscapes that provoke, disquiet, and charm.

SELECTED BIO

DAVID NOONAN (Ballarat, Australia, 1969) lives and works in London. He holds a BFA from Ballarat University College and a MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Selected exhibitions include: 17th Biennale of Sydney; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; The Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow;
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (all 2010); The Tate Triennial (2009); Busan Biennale; Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo) (both 2008); Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, the Netherlands; Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo) (both 2007); Tate Modern, London; Ulrich Museum of Art; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (all 2006); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (solo); Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL; Mori Art Museum, Japan (all 2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (2004); Tate Britain, London (2003); PS1, New York (2002); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2002); 7th Istanbul Biennale (2001); The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2000); and the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1999).

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