Noel Vincent Joseph McKenna Australia, 1956-.
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About Noel McKenna
Born in Brisbane in 1956 Noel McKenna studied architecture at Queensland University and art at the Brisbane College of the Arts and the Alexander Mackie College, in Sydney in 1981. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the eastern states of Australia and Auckland, New York and Dublin since 2005. Noel McKenna has won a number of prizes including the 2015 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, in 2011 and the Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 2005, 2002, 2001, 1999 and 1997. He was a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Sydney in 2019.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Noel McKenna from 1996 and in total 310 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 245 (79%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $39,273 for Big Things Australia sold by Menzies in November 2020. This year 2 works have been offered for sale. Works by Noel McKenna are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further six major public national galleries (see list below).
Noel McKenna is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 648
- Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 435
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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