Noel McKenna
Noel McKenna
Strip Show, 1989
Noel McKenna (born 1956)
watercolour, ink and pencil
31 x 38 cm (frame: 57 x 62 cm)
signed and dated lower right; inscribed ‘Adult Theatre’, signed and dated verso
Exhibited: Noel McKenna, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 9th to 26th May 1990, Cat. no. 14.
$2,250
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Noel McKenna was born in Brisbane. He studied architecture at Queensland University in 1974-5 and continued his education at Brisbane College of Art from 1976-78 and then at Alexander Mackie College, Sydney in 1981. Since then he has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas, holding solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart, as well as Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Ireland and New Zealand. McKenna won the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1994 and has been awarded the Trustees Watercolour Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW five times since 1997.
He won the 2015 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize and was a finalist in the 2016, 2015 & 2014 Sir John Sulman Prizes, as well as a finalist in the 2014 Wynne Prize. His work is held in all major state and regional galleries, and important public collections throughout Australia and overseas.