Acting

David Noonan

Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

David Noonan is a leading Australian artist whose works are characterised by a complex layering of historical and contemporary imagery. He has a longstanding interest in how we perceive time and diverse visual and material forms, often using found photographic images as a starting point. Combining images and materials gleaned from magazines, books and the internet that might not otherwise be seen together, he conjures new and unexpected associations.

Acting credits

Cassie thought that the deserted beach town would be the perfect escape from the past, from her unfaithful lover and painful memories. Peace is short-lived. In this serene town hides a sickening evil. Her only escape may be in the obscurity of a mental asylum. However, it is here the evil will find her also.

To the Point of Death

1995

Behind the camera

Named after the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne drifts through liminal states and in-between spaces, unfolding as a shifting sequence of mesmerising images that mirror the unpredictable flow of memory. A haunting, poetic atmosphere builds throughout, while meanings remain deliberately withheld, leaving space for personal interpretation within its dreamlike world.

Mnemosyne

2022

Owls peer out from shadows, looking uncannily human. A mythology is hinted at without provenance - imaginations are disobedient historians.

Owl

2004