DAVID NOONAN
b. 1969, AustraliaDavid Noonan transforms black and white or sepia found imagery into striking collages and large-scale silk-screened tableaux on linen or films. He collects photographs, archival documents and magazines and books relating to utopian collectives in the 1960s and 70s, theatre and dance performances, or art education, and layers selected images with others of plants, animals and buildings. These depicted rituals are recycled, barely recognizable, reinventions of inventions past, time-traveling, and any sense of time and place is blurred or displaced. Multiple appropriations blend realism, mystery and myth.
The fabrics he uses as the ground for the silk-screens are rough in texture and often patched or folded. Many contain printed patterns that are inspired by Japanese textiles. Noonan also produces panelled, figurative sculptures in which cut out silhouettes of performers act out grand gestures.
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