80 pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm, section-sewn hardcover
Perimeter Editions 054
ISBN: 978-0-6486801-1-6
AU $45
OUT OF PRINT
Noel McKenna
End Street
Noel McKenna’s paintings do a lot with a little. The senior Australian artist’s suburban interiors, solitary male inhabitants, and the various domesticated animals that keep them company, fit adroitly into the wider motif of the poetics of the banal. But it’s via his work’s quiet humour, tenderness and workaday melancholy that McKenna has fashioned such a unique, likeable and subtly emotive visual language. Put simply, his paintings just are.Spanning various decades, the works that populate End Street – McKenna’s first book for Perimeter Editions – speak in the same humble, meandering cadence as the best of his output. Unimposing in their scale and spare in their information, these paintings, drawings, painted ceramic tiles and sculptures offer vantages on a life lived alone (bar the cat or the dog). Here, our silent protagonist smokes a pipe while reading his book, and subsists on a diet of sausages, eggs, toast and tea. Out the window, the night is still and clear, and from time to time a crescent moon gently casts its cool light.
Perimeter Editions 054
Edition of 700
ISBN: 978-0-6486801-1-6
Publication date: November 2019
Printed by Unicum, The Netherlands
Published by Perimeter Editions in cooperation with Niagara Galleries
Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Justine Ellis and Dan Rule
Design: Sasha Taylor
Text: Noel McKenna
Editorial Assistance: Nadiah Abdulrahim and Ash Holmes
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