About the work

Noonan’s collage works, films, paintings, sculptural objects, tapestries, and installations are characterised by a complex layering of found historical and contemporary images. In his work, he is interested in the liminal and temporal; in the dialogue between figuration and abstraction and a de-linear sense of time; in ambiguities, contradictions, and in-between spaces. As Jennifer Higgie notes – ‘Every image is a fragment. This is how we see things; how we remember what we don’t fully understand. Creation is always cumulative. Pictures and films develop in an intuitive way, often in response to something that has already been made’.

His work often displays a monochromatic palette that references his source material and presents a distilled aesthetic. He explores how materials behave together and influence each other to create a form of visual and material harmonics that inform his creative processes.

Date and country of birth

1969, AU

Career Highlights

Solo exhibitions include The Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Modern Art, London; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, MAMCO, Geneva; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; MCA, Sydney; MONA, Hobart, British Council, London.