David Noonan’s collage works, films, paintings, sculptural objects, tapestries and installations are characterised by a complex layering of found historical and contemporary images. In his work, Noonan is interested in the liminal and temporal; in the dialogue between figuration and abstraction and a de-linear sense of time; in ambiguities, contradictions and in-between spaces.

Created for the exhibition A Dark and Quiet Place at Fremantle Arts Centre, the tapestry extends his longstanding investigation into reproduction, materiality and the shifting status of the image. The tapestry was conceived in dialogue with Noonan’s 2017 film, A Dark and Quiet Place, and are conceptually intertwined. Both works employ a device central to Noonan’s practice: the overlaying of figurative and abstract imagery, creating a visual reverberation across mediums.