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David Noonan before and now
Johanna Fahey
Fishermans Bend, Vic. : Craftsman House, 2004
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Book description
David Noonan's idiosyncratic and highly personalized paintings, videos, sculptures and installations have found a global audience in recent years. His use of universal motifs, ranging from the baroque to the sci-fi, have an international appeal. Noonan is an artist to whom chosen media exists to be harnessed to create powerful atmospheric environs. His video installations, both solo and with collaborator Simon Trevaks, have utilized references from the extremes of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, to elements of gothic horror and the shadowy intrigue of European cinema. His paints and gouaches tackle Edwardian mysteries and child-hood fears and fantasies. His elaborate mises en scene are linked by a strange sense of nostalgia, his imagery informed by the cultural and visual maelstrom of his formative years, pulsing with potential narratives and resonating with layers of period styles. Here the author explores Noonan's inspirations and aspirations. Deliberately eschewing the traditional narrative of an artist's life, Fahey begins with Noonan's most recent work, burrowing backwards in time to reflect the artist's own fascination with the temporal and the temporary, where present, past and future coalesce in a gripping and unique body of work.
About the author
Johannah Fahey is an academic and writer. She completed her doctorate in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, NSW. She has taught at the University of Melbourne and Macquarie University.
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