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by David Noonan

David Noonan’s fourth solo exhibition at Foxy Production comprises a new series of silkscreened, collaged paintings. The works’ distressed surfaces and fractured subjects sustain a tension between abstraction and figuration, where images seem to subside into the materiality of the canvas. Printed in monochrome on raw linen, the works’ patterns and patchworking undermine the legibility of the scenes they project. Subjects appear reflective, caught in the midst of transformation or constraint. Each composition is fragmented; characters seem ethereal, losing their holding to the heft of the material they are rendered upon.

50 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

David Noonan is an Australian artist known for his distinctive collage-based practice that merges found imagery with screen-printing, painting, and textile work to explore themes of performance, ritual, and the theatrical. Born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1969, Noonan studied fine art at Ballarat University College and later earned his MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. He relocated to London, where he currently lives and works.
Noonan's work has been widely exhibited internationally, with solo shows at leading institutions including the Tate Modern in London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Chisenhale Gallery, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. His haunting, monochromatic pieces often draw from archival sources such as stage productions, avant-garde film, and folk traditions, lending his art an enigmatic and timeless quality.
In 2020, he was featured in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and his exhibition Stagecraft at the Art Gallery of Ballarat reflected his long-standing interest in performance and transformation. His work is held in major public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate, the Guggenheim, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.