INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1956
Born Brisbane, Australia
Lives Sydney
EDUCATION
1974-75
Architecture, University of Queensland
1976-78
Brisbane College of Art, Brisbane
1981
Alexander Mackie College, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Noel McKenna – All That Heaven Allows, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Noel McKenna – homes 4 sale nz, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Noel McKenna – Works on Paper, Michael Reid at Murrurundi, NSW
2010
Noel McKenna, Michael Reid at Murrurundi, NSW.
Noel McKenna – 29 centremeters closer, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2009
News of the swimmer reaches shore, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Google Series, Men Smoking Pipes, Autumn, Men Fishing, Cats etc., Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2008
Northland, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: The Return Journey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: Noel McKenna, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2007
The democratic potter, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006
From Watsons Bay to Waterloo, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005
Merrylands, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Somewhere in the City, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Ceramics 1993-2005, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Noel McKenna, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2004
Australia II including The Queensland Room, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Noel McKenna: Animal Works 1977-2003, touring exhibition, including St. George Regional Museum, Sydney, Australia
2003
Australia, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Recent work 2003, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2003 Hermans Art Award, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001
Found and Lost, Niagra Galleries, Melbourne
Hong Kong, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
SMH Watercolours, 1997-2001, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2000
Southland, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
1997
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1996
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1995
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1994
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1993
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1992
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
ARS Multiplicata, Sydney, Australia
1991
12 Sturt Street, Sydney, Australia
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1985
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1983
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
The Ipswich House, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
2009
New Australian Art, Deloitte, Sydney
Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
Minding Animals, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
the non-grand, an exploration of intimacy in contemporary art, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, Australia.
avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Blue Chip XI, The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Darren Knight Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Who let the dogs out – the dog in contemporary Australian art, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, New South Wales
Look out , Wembley Arena MOP, Sydney, Australia
2007
BloodLines – Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW Australia
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
De Overkant/Down Under, Den Haag Sculptuur/The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, The Netherlands
Art + Humor Too, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection, 1970 - 2001 Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2006-2007
Yours, mine and ours: 50 years of ABC TV, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney, Australia
Moist, Australian Watercolours, Araluen Galleries, N.T., Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, QLD, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC; Riddoch Gallery, S.A.
2006
2006 The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Getting on Mother’s Nerves, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
2005
We are all animals, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
MCA Collection: New acquisitions in context, Museum on Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
The Sound of Painting, The Arts Centre, George Adams Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UnAustralian, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Art + Humour, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2004
2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia.
The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
National Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney, Australia
The Visibility of Practice, National Art School, Sydney
Mind’s Eye, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
Gambling in Australia: Thrills, Spills and Social Ills, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2003-2004
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia,
Fair Game. Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Sport: More than heroes and legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Australia
A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia
2003
National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition 2003, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art & About, College and George Streets, City of Sydney, Australia
2002
The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Nocturne, images from night and darkness from colonial to contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Australia
2001
Black/White & Grey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
The Gambling Show, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Century of Collecting 1902 –2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
2000
Parihaka – The Art of Passive Resistance, The City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Small Tapestries and Works on Paper, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Pets, Prey & Predators – Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Dog Show, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney, Australia
Re/Brand?, Wollongong City Gallery and Wollongong University, Australia
1999-2000
On The Road – The Car in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
1999
Pets, Prey & Predators – Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Persuasive Humours, Mosman Region Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997-99
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Waverley City Gallery,
Gippsland Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Australia
1998
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
Australian Contemporary Art, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize and Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1997
A face in the crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1995
Muswellbrook Acquisitive Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Australia
1994
Sulman Prize and Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Paint on the tracks, Australian artists and the railway, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1993
Death, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
On the other hand, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1992
The New Metaphysics, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, national tour
Correspondences, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Her story - images of domestic labour in Australian art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1990
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1989
Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Australia
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1987
Aberdare Art Prize for Landscape, Ipswich City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
1986
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1985
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, Australia
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, Australia
1983
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1982
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1980
L.H. Harvey memorial prize for drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
WEB REVIEWS
‘State of Origin’, ARTLIFE, www.artlife.blogspot.com, September 2004
AWARDS
2011
2011 NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize
2006
The Fleurieu Peninsula Vistas Prize 2006, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, South Australia, Australia
2005
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2003
Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
Finalist, National Gallery of Australia’s 2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2002
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2001
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Melbourne Savage Club 2001 Art Prize for Painting, Melbourne
1999
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1997
Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995
Muswellbrook Acquisitive Priz-e, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery
1994
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
PAGE ART
Australian Art History 1975-2008, Art & Australia, Vol 48, No.1, 2010
COLLECTIONS
Allen Arthur Robertson Collection, Sydney, Australia
Art Bank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Brisbane City Council, Queensland, Australia
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Gold Coast City Council, Queensland, Australia
Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne, Australia
La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
Logan TAFE, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Manly Shire Council, Sydney, Australia
Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Southern Cross University Artists Book Collection
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
University of Tasmania, Australia
University of Western Australia, Australia
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Western Mining Collection, Australia
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
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