This biennial national prize offers a platform for artists to explore the evolving notion of Australian identity while celebrating emerging and established portrait painters....
Noel McKenna, Darling Portrait Prize 2024 winner
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2020 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) winner announced
The 2020 JADA winning work reflects depression and anxiety, contemporary concepts of masculinity, the master engravings of Albrecht Dürer, and the existential literature of Franz Kafka....
Living With Art: Noel McKenna
Noel McKenna’s enigmatic practice is comprised of, at face value, direct symbols and the mise-en-scene of everyday life and yet his works bounce us out of stasis and strike an emotional chord. 3:33 Art Projects speaks with the artist....
Pets are people too
‘Pets are people too’ is an anthro-zoological study in the symbiotic relationship between humans and animals through the work of nine contemporary artists....
Noel McKenna
Noel McKenna is an artist who cannily reveals the everyday - giving presence to the incidental things and figures that often go unnoticed....
10/10 for Ten Cubed
Ten Cubed is a self-described ‘art experiment’. In 2010 they began a ten-year project to acquire and showcase the work of outstanding contemporary artists exhibiting in Australia in various media forms; sculpture, painting, video art, photography and more. On Saturday 24 October, 10/10 Executive Director Dianne...
Noel McKenna: Animals and Men
McKenna works in various methods of art making to instill a humble and engaging quality to familiar imagery. He is best known for his finely drawn paintings that explore a range of idiosyncratic Australian imagery, returning frequently to images of the domestic dog and family home....
South of no North
South of no North is a modest evocation of everyday life, curated by Glenn Barkley, and featuring artists Noel McKenna, Laurence Aberhart and William Eggleston, drawing on themes of place and purpose. ...