BIOGRAPHY |
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| 1956 |
Born Brisbane, Australia |
| 1974-75 |
Architecture, University of Queensland, Australia |
| 1976-78 |
Brisbane College of Art, Brisbane, Australia |
| 1981 |
Alexander Mackie College, Sydney, Australia |
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Lives and works in Sydney, Australia |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 |
Google Series, Men Smoking Pipes, Autumn, Men Fishing, Cats etc, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 2008 |
Northland, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: The Return Journey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: Noel McKenna, National Art School Gallery, Sydney |
| 2007 |
Travel Notes, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
The Democratic Potter, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2006 |
From Watsons Bay to Waterloo, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 |
Merrylands, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Somewhere in the City, Queensland University of Technology, Sydney
Sheltered Life, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Ceramics 1993 - 2005, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia |
| 2004 |
Australia II including The Queensland Room, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Noel McKenna: Animal Works 1977-2003, touring exhibition, including St. George Regional Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| 2003 |
Australia, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
A small private eye, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and touring Australia
Recent work 2003, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2003 Hermans Art Award, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2001 |
Found and Lost, Niagra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Hong Kong, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
SMH Watercolours, 1997-2001, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia |
| 2000 |
Southland, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1999 |
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1998 |
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 1997 |
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia |
| 1996 |
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1995 |
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1994 |
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia |
| 1993 |
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1992 |
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
ARS Multiplicata, Sydney, Australia |
| 1991 |
12 Sturt Street, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1985 |
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1983 |
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 |
Avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, MCA, Sydney
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand.
The Non Grand, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong |
| 2008 |
Thoughts On Paper, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Who let the dogs out – the dog in contemporary Australian art, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, New South Wales
Look out Wembley Arena, MOP, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 |
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
BloodLines – Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
De Overkant/Down Under, Den Haag Sculptuur/The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, The
Netherlands
Art + Humor, Too Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection, 1970 – 2001, Warrnambool
Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 2006 |
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
Drawcard Exhibition, NAS Gallery, Sydney
Getting on Mother's Nerves: Psychological Drama and Contemporary Drawing, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
25th Gold Coast International Ceramic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2005 |
Moist: Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia and touring, Canberra
Artists for Kids Culture: 2005 Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council Chambers, Double Bay
We Are All Animals, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Melbourne
UnAustralian, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
2005 Island Art Prize, Stanley Town Hall, Tasmania
Absolut Secret, National Art School, Sydney
The Sound of Painting, George Adams Gallery, the Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2004 |
2004 The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
National Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney, Australia
The Visibility of Practice, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Mind’s Eye, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Gambling in Australia: Thrills, Spills and Social Ills, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| 2003-04 |
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia
Fair Game. Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Sport: More than heroes and legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia |
| 2003 |
National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition 2003, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art & About, College and George Streets, City of Sydney, Australia |
| 2002 |
2002 The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Nocturne, images from night and darkness from colonial to contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Australia |
| 2001 |
Black/White & Grey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Gambling Show, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
The Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Century of Collecting 1902 –2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia |
| 2000 |
Parihaka – The Art of Passive Resistance, The City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Small Tapestries and Works on Paper, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Pets, Prey & Predators – Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Dog Show, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney, Australia
Re/Brand?, Wollongong City Gallery and Wollongong University, Australia |
| 1999-2000 |
On The Road – The Car in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1999 |
Pets, Prey & Predators – Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Persuasive Humours, Mosman Region Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1997-99 |
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Waverley City Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Australia |
| 1998 |
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
Australian Contemporary Art, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize and Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia |
| 1997 |
A face in the crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia |
| 1995 |
Muswellbrook Acquisitive Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Australia |
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| AWARDS |
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| 2007 |
Rosemarie Dustmann and Ian and Edith Wilson Ceramics Award, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre |
| 2003 |
Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
Finalist, National Gallery of Australia’s 2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| 2002 |
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2001 |
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 1994 |
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Allen, C, review, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 1989
Angeloro, D, ‘State of origami’, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 24 September, 2004
Barkley, G, Horizontal eclecticism’, catalogue essay, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, National Gallery of Australia, 2003
Barkley, G, ‘Op-Shop Aesthetics’, catalogue essay, Noel McKenna, Darren Knight Gallery, 2002
Barkley, G, ‘Op-Shop Aesthetics’, Lino, 01, March 2003
Catalano, G, review, The Age, 16 May 1990
Chivas, A, Quiet moments: the prints of Noel McKenna, Antiques & Art in New South Wales, Sept/Dec 2004
Clabburn, A, Whimsey in the White Cube', catalogue, Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, catalogue essay, Geelong Art Gallery, 1997
Fenner, F, 'The new metaphysics', catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1992
Fenner, F, 'Much ado about criticism', The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 1994
Fenner, F, ‘Noel McKenna: Artists’ Artist’, Australian Art Collector, September 1999, Issue 9, July – September 1999.
Frost, A, Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 19, January – March 2001
Frost, A & Bokor, J, Artist’s Questionnaire – Noel McKenna, A Public of individuals, no. 4, Feb-April 2003
Gill, R, 'Diverse art bound by an unsettling melancholy', The Age, 7 September 1994
Hart, D, ‘Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion’, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2003
Heathcote, C, 'Unassuming pictures from an alcove at an imaginary exhibition', The Age, September 1992
Heathcote, C, 'The thick and thin on show', The Age, 7 September 1994
Hynes, V, ‘Just add watercolour’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24-30 August 2001
James, B, ‘Sacred Sights in Search of a Site’, review, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 January 1999
Kidd, C, ‘Understated Power’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 August 2000
Knight, D, Silks’ Gallery, Silks, Spring, 2003
Low, LA, ‘A houseful & more of works, & all have spoken out to their owner’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 2003
Low, LA, ‘Juice gigolo’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25-26 August 2001
Loxley, A, 'Noel McKenna', catalogue essay, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1994
Loxley, A, 'The drama of drawing from three different angles', The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 2001
Loxley, A. & McKenna, N, Open Gallery, Art & About, catalogue, City of Sydney, October, 2003
Loxley, A, ‘Mixed media in frame’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 2003
Lynn, E, 'Abstract form shows its hand', The Australian, 11-12 June 1994
Lynn, E, 'Mixed metaphysics', The Australian, 5-6 December 1992
McKenna, Noel, ‘Painting 101’, Australian Style, February 2002
McDonald, J, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 1996
Mendelssohn, J, 'Welcome to Done Place, Tim Storrier, Khovar Dreamings', The Australian, 21 June 1996
O’Brien, G, ‘Changing The Light, Noel McKenna’, exhibition catalogue essay, Niagara Galleries, 1999
Owens, S, ‘To canvas the racetrack moment’, Silks, Winter, 2003
Plant, S, ‘More than meets the eye’, The Herald Sun, 1 August 2001
Radok, S, 'Viva la vida', The Adelaide Review, July 1995
Rainbird, S, ‘Visionaries, Donors, Gifts and Bequests: Celebrating a Decade of Benefaction 1991-2001, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2001
Reid, M, ‘New quest for the most collectable a right resolution’, The Australian, 3 December 2003
Rooney, R, 'Figuring out fun of the fair', The Australian, 10-11 October 1992
Rooney, R, 'Is an artist's stature based largely on size?' The Australian, 26-27 May 1990
Rich, P, ‘Noel McKenna Drawings', catalogue, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney 1991
Ryan, Anne, ‘The value of things’, Art and Australia, Vol.42, No. 1, Spring 2004
Simpson, P, 'Parihaka. A Very real Symbol', review, Art New Zealand, No. 97 Summer 2000-2001
Small, S, ‘Restrained menace’, The Advertiser, 23 April 2003
Smee, S, ‘Australia’s champion of the outsider’, The Art Newspaper, no.141, November 2003
Thomas, D, 'Outlines in Australian Art, The Joseph Brown Collection', 3rd Edition, Macmillan, 1989
Watson, B, Art and Australia, Winter issue, 1989
Williams, A, 'Exhibition', The Domain, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 June 1996
Web review, ‘State of Origin’, ARTLIFE, HYPERLINK "http://www.artlife.blogspot.com" www.artlife.blogspot.com, September 2004 |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Allen Arthur Robertson Collection, Sydney, Australia
Artbank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Brisbane City Council, Queensland, Australia
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Gold Coast City Council, Queensland, Australia
Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne, Australia
La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
Logan TAFE, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Manly Shire Council, Sydney, Australia
Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
University of Tasmania, Australia
University of Western Australia, Australia
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Western Mining Collection, Australia
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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