David Noonan’s collages, films, paintings, sculptural objects, tapestries and installations are characterised by a complex layering of found historical and contemporary images. In his work, he is interested in the liminal and temporal; in the dialogue between figuration and abstraction and a de-linear sense of time; in ambiguities, contradictions and in-between spaces. As Jennifer Higgie notes: ‘Every image is a fragment. This is how we see things; how we remember what we don’t fully understand. Creation is always cumulative. Pictures and films develop in an intuitive way, often in response to something that has already been made’. His work often displays a monochromatic palette that references his source material and presents a distilled aesthetic. He explores how materials behave together and influence each other to create a form of visual and material harmonics that inform his creative processes. David Noonan was born in 1969 in Ballarat, Australia, and lives and works in London. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2023); TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2022); Modern Art, London (2022); the Art Gallery of Ballarat (2020); and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2018). In 2011, he presented a survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He has participated in recent group exhibitions at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2023); the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2020); Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (2019); Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2018); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2017); La Panacée, Montpellier (2017); and MCA Chicago (2015). His works are held in collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.