Fringe Dwellers

Details

NOEL VINCENT JOSEPH McKENNA (B. 1956)
Fringe Dwellers
signed 'N.McKENNA 99' (lower right); further inscribed and dated 'Fringe Dwellers 1999' on label (on the reverse)
enamel on plywood
61 x 62.7 cm

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999

Literature

G O'Brien, Noel McKenna - Changing the Light, exh. cat., Melbourne, 1999, illus

Exhibited

Melbourne, Niagara Galleries, Noel McKenna - Changing the Light, 3 - 28 August 1999, cat. no 14

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

"Of the many narratives that can be threaded through Noel McKenna's recent paintings, his visit to the New Zealand Maori paa (village) of Parihaka, Taranaki, in November 1998 is a surprising but nonetheless illuminating one.

Parihaka was an important site of the Maori passive resistance against the encroachments of the colonial forces from the 1870's onwards...

McKenna's Fringe Dwellers brings to mind the Parihaka settlement itself - an isolated conglomeration of small houses located at the base of two peaks, Pouakai and Mount Taranaki (Egmount). (G O'Brien, op.cit.)

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