| BIOGRAPHY |
| 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 | | 1994 | Winner, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW | | 1997- | 5 time winner of the Trustees Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of NSW | | 2001 | Winner, Melbourne Savage Club Prize | | 2003 | Winner, Mosman Art Prize, NSW | | 2011 | Winner, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize | | | Lives and works in Sydney, Australia | | | |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2016 | The Interior, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide
Noel McKenna at Ten Cubed, Ten Cubed, Melbourne
Art of Collecting - Noel McKenna, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Sydney
Seltzer, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
1 August (1992 - ), Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney | | 2015 | Concealing the Spot, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland | | 2014 | Absurdia: Noel McKenna - A Focus, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Psychiatrist's Dog, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
A Walk from One Tree Hill to Half Moon Bay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Basel Hong Kong, Mother's Tankstation, Stand | | 2013 | Animals and Men, Greenaway Art Gallery, South Australia
Twelve old, Twelve new, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Polluting the Acid: A Selection of Etchings and Lithographs 1977 - 2013, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney | | 2012 | The piano of my brother, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Travel Notes 2, Heiser Gallery, Queensland | | 2011 | All That Heaven Allows, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Homes 4 Sale NZ, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Michael Reid at Murrurundi, New South Wales | | 2010 | Drawings from the Bath, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
29cms Closer, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Clay Works, Heiser Gallery, Queensland | | 2009 | News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
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 |
| 2016 | SPRING 1883, Room 224, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
Close to Home: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Country & Western: Landscape Reimagined, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Identity, Dominic Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2016 Fleurieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Equus, curated by Kate Smith and Edward Hoddle, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney | | 2015 | Country & Western: Landscape Reimagined, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, (touring) Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney, S.H. Ervin gallery, Sydney
Art Basel Miami, mother’s tankstation, Miami Beach
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Collectors' Space, Surry Hills, Sydney | | 2014 | Sublime Point: The landscape in painting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Spring 1883, Suite 224, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Stand E117, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
David Malouf and Friends, Museum of Brisbane,Queesland
Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, UQ Art Museum
Holiday + Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
Solitaire, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Basil Sellers Art Prize 2014, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
The Phantom Show, Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2013 | Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
South of No North, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | | 2012 | New Work, Greenaway Art Gallery, South Australia
Selected Works, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Korea International Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Seoul
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buliding
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, QLD
underSTATEd 2012 - NSW Parliment Collection, Fountain Court, New South Wales Parliment, Sydney
Revealed: Inside the private collections of South Australia, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum, SA
ANIMAL/HUMAN, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Walking with Alice, SASA Gallery, UniSA, Adelaide
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art
A View From Where I Was Sleeping, Wellington, NZ
Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries | | 2011 | NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney
Going where the weather suits my clothes... a fall of light on fabric, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
The Armory Show, New York | | 2010 | Christmas Exhibition, Heiser Gallery, Queensland
One-off, Greenaway Art Gallery, South Australia
The Ipswich House, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Basil Sellers Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne
The Working Kitchen with Brendan and Greg O'Brien, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne | | 2009 | Basil Sellers Art Prize Finalists°ò Exhibition, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Queensland
Fremantle Print Prize Finalists Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
The Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards Finalists Exhibition, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Step Right Up!, Albury City Art Gallery, New South Wales and The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Adventures in Collection: Gems from the Reg and Sally Richardson Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing: Exhibition of Finalists, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize: Exhibition of Finalists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Moran Prize: Exhibition of Finalists, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian Artists and the Literary World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Ungrand, Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales | | 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
Den Haag Sculptuur 2007: De Overkaan / Down Under, The Hague, Netherlands | | 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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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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 |
Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection, Sydney; Artbank, Sydney; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide; Brisbane City Council, Qld; Chartwell Collection, NZ; Derwent Collection, Hobart; Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW; Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Qld; Joseph Brown Collection, Vic; Kelvin Grove CAE, Brisbane; Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Vic; Mackay Regional Art Gallery, Qld; Manly Shire Council, Sydney, Macquarie Bank, Sydney; Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Vic; Mosman Art Gallery, NSW; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; New Parliament House, Canberra; NSW Parliament, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Qld Art Gallery, Brisbane; Qld University of Technology Art Collection, Brisbane; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld; Southern Cross University, NSW; The University of Qld Art Collection, Brisbane; University of WA, Perth; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic; Western Mining Collection, WA |
