Biography

Noelle Noonan, native of Cork City, studied Fine Art Painting at the Crawford College of Art and Design and completed a Master Degree in Fine Art Printmaking at Brighton University. A full member of Cork Printmakers she served on the board for eight years, Lecturers part time in Print and Contemporary Arts Practice at Limerick School of Art and Design. Selected as the Irish candidate to participate in Temporary Residency 3 Honolulu with Prawat Lauchaeron in Feb 2012. Recent exhibitions include 21 Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork, Perimeter, Limerick Printmakers , Aether, Macroom ,Academy Art Centre Hawaii, Limerick/Quimper Cross Cultural Art Exhibition, Belltable Art Centre and Prrieure de Locmaria, Quimper France,An Eire of the Senses, Irish Contemporary Art at the Ireland World Expo Pavillion, 411 Galleries, Shanghai, China.  She has participated in exhibitions and residencies in  Hawaii,England, Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, China and Russia.Her work is in the collection of Dail Eireann, RTÉ Cork and
Dublin, the Crawford Art Gallery and the collection of  the President Mary McAleese. She has been  a number of Arts Council of Ireland  Awards  and an Arts Council of Sweden Travel  bursary. Her work encompasses the medium of Print, Installation, Sculpture and Painting.

Exhibition

Trapper 2
Trapper 2 is an imposing 3d construction ( 25 ft in height and 10 ft in width) devised from a collection of nest boxes, cages and swathes of shredded prints. Some of the shredded prints were part of another collaborative project 24 hours where a group of printmaker debated the topic National Interest.This was funded under Art trail. The concept focused on the impermanent , that life is a cycle, and this time of national and global upheaval will also pass, things will mutate, alter and transform.As a result the prints had a 24 hour lifespan before it there were systematically cut in an industrial shredder.
Some of these print have now mutated and found life in this 3d construction.