David Noonan: Films and Paintings 2001-2005 comprises a selection of recent gouaches, bleach paintings, oil paintings, collages, films and installations, alongside a newly commissioned film installation developed specifically for the Monash University Museum of Art. mainly books and magazines, by reassembling them according to a personal logic. Johanna Fahey describes one of Noonan's previous installations as a "custom-made flashback, tailored with an appreciation for aesthetics [used] to create a historical flavor."* In Noonan's new series, visions of a quasi - spiritual, separatist community, a pagan cult of sorts, are prompted by photographs of children and adults dancing, hugging, and practicing abstract artwork.Beginning each of his screen prints by making a collage, David Noonan brings together an eclectic array of found imagery - sourced from film stills, books, magazines, and archive photos - to create dramatic scenes that suggest surreal narratives. These collages are then photographed and turned into large-scale screen prints, a technique remarkable for its sumptuous finish that relates to both artistic authenticity and mass media. Printed in harsh contrast black and white, Noonan's images encapsulate the romanticism of golden age cinema, and its associations to memory, fiction, and modern mythology.Approaching image making with an auteur's indulgence, Noonan presents a fabricated vision that is awesome in its complexity. Using the liturgy of art itself as a departure point for invention,