Jill Noble
Born in Adelaide, Australia
Lives & works in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria
"I enjoy playing with composition, in particular simplifying and editing. My narrative often comes from landscape, both the visual experience and the feeling.
Reduced and stylised, my process favours an uncluttered compositional order, often translated into playful arrangements of shorthanded imagery.
My focus is on finding resolve and clarity within my own personal picture-making language. The aesthetic values of harmonising colour and composition direct my decisions in resolving these pictorial equations."
Curriculum Vitae
1979-1982 South Australian School of Art
1982 Founding member of Roar Studios Gallery, Melbourne
1985-2022 30+ solo exhibitions at Australian Galleries - Melbourne, Sydney and Regional.
1988-1992 Introduced and conducted the art program at Noweyung, Bairnsdale establishing the Colour Gang Art Group.
1990-1992 Artist in Residence, Noweyung Centre, Bairnsdale, Victoria
2021 Ella Farmoodle – a picture book for children written and illustrated by Jill Noble, published by Berbay Books
2022 Included in Top 100 Collectable Artists - "a list bringing into the light arguably the best Australian painters, photographers and sculptors making art in 2022". www.top100artists.com/our-year-s-hottest-artists
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Kyneton Ridge Estate Gallery, Kyneton
2021 Artvisory Melbourne
2019 Artvisory Melbourne
2018 Australian Galleries Melbourne
2017 Mossgreen Melbourne
2015 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2014 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2013 Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney
2012 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2011 Australian Galleries, Sydney
2011 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2009 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2006 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2004 Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2002 ‘Composition and Configuration’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001 ‘Wire Constructions’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000 ‘Recent Paintings’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1997 Independent Exhibition, Richmond Studio, Melbourne
1996 ‘Recent Work’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1995 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1993 ‘Paintings of the Gippsland Lakes’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1992 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1991 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1988 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1987 ‘Recent Paintings’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2015 The Melbourne Girls, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide Gallery Artists, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2014 New acquisitions City of Yarra, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne Newham Square Benefit, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
2013 Double Vision paintings by Jill Noble Sculpture by Tim Jones Fleurieu Exhibition at Fox Creek McLaren Vale, South Australia
2013 Finalist exhibition Paddington Landscape Prize, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2012 Roar Reviewed presented by David Deague & Crenia Cadden Armadale, Melbourne
2011 The Melbourne Girls, Art Images Gallery Adelaide
2010 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2009 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2009 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2008 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2008 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2006 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2005 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2003 Directors Choice, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2002 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Metro 5 ‘Roar Again’, Melbourne
2001 Tim Olsen Galleries, Sydney
1999 Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition and Benefit, George Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Artists for Kids Culture, George Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Fuse- Melbourne Festival, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1997 12 Years On - Melbourne Painters at Coventry, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1996 Obsession, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
1996 Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
1996 Jeans for Genes, AGNSW, Sydney
1995 Australia Felix Arts Festival, Benalla, NSW
1995 Coventry Diary 1995, Coventry, Sydney
1995 Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Gallery, NSW
1994 Chandler Coventry, Obsession, Campbelltown City Gallery touring to Gold Coast, City Art Gallery, QLD
1994 20 Artists Celebrating 20 Years, Coventry Gallery, Sydney & Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1994 Roar Artists Ten Years On, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Coventry, A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Gallery
1993 Coventry Diary 1993, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1992 Roar 82-83 (now Roar Studios, Melbourne)
1992 Roar Studios Touring Exhibition, Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne; Benalla Art Gallery; Shepparton Gallery and Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
1992 Works for Wilderness 10 Square, Linden, Melbourne
1992 A Group Sculpture Show, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Coventry Diary 1992, Coventry, Sydney
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1991 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1991 Table Top Sculpture and Drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1991 New Art Five, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1990 66 Works, Coventry, Sydney
1990 Indo Eco, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre Touring Exhibition, Linden, Morwell Regional Gallery and Traralgon Regional Gallery
1990 The Greenpeace Fund Raising Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1990 Coventry Diary, Coventry, Sydney
1989 City Artists in Bairnsdale, Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale
1989 Intimate Drawing, Coventry, Sydney
1989 City Artists in Bairnsdale, Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale
1988 A New Generation 1983-88, Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Black and White, Coventry, Sydney
1988 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1988 Artist Made Christmas Trees, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Grafton Regional Gallery
1988 New Work, Coventry, Sydney
1987 Colour II, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986 Rhumbarellas Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Colour I, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1985 The Melbourne Group, Coventry, Sydney
1985 Raw Realities, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Works on paper, Coventry, Sydney
1984 Melbourne Painters, Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston and Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1983 Roar Studios, Melbourne
1982 Roar Studios, Melbourne
Roar Studios, founded in 1982 and nested in a former shoe factory on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy was among Melbourne’s earliest artist-run initiatives.
From left: Wayne Eager, Karen Hayman, Judi Singleton, Mark Schaller, Peter Ferguson, Jill Noble, Sarah Faulkner, Mark Howson, David Larwill, Kim Sanaovini, Pasquale Giardino and Andrew Ferguson.
Collections
Allen Allen and Hemsley
Artbank
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
B.H.P. Australia
Baillieu Myer Collection of the 1980s
Baker and McKensie
Bank of Melbourne
Bell Potter Securities, Melbourne
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW
Gadsdens
Chandler Coventry Collection
City of Yarra, Victoria
Crown, Melbourne
Fox Creek Wines, South Australia
Gaydens Ridgeway, Sydney
Health Commission
IBM Australia
Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Morwell Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Potter Warburg Australia
Samuelson Talbot, Melbourne
Seafirst Australia
Sir William Dobell Foundation
Sly and Weigall
Tamworth City Art Gallery, NSW
University of Western Australia, Perth
Commissions
2011 ‘The Roar Commission’ for David Deague and Creina Cadden, Melbourne
1997 St Martins Theatre, Victoria, set design
1997 Wattle Park, Victoria, playground paintings
1996 NSW Health Commission Seafirst, Australia
1995 Victorian Ministry of Arts Grant Artist in Community Residency Noweyung Centre, Bairnsdale, Victoria
1989 Art Access Grant Mural Project Noweyung Centre, Bairnsdale
1989 Victoria Conservation Council of Victoria Water Catchment Mural
1986 Philip Morris Art Grant Australian National Gallery Restaurant