Noel Flood b. 1936

  • Artist (Ceramist),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Flood trained as an artist and worked with Alan Caiger-Smith UK, Royal Delft Pottery Netherlands, David Boyd & John Perceval. Returned to Australia ca.1962 and exhibits thrown functional wares & sculpture. He also had an extensive career as an educator. Elected as President, Victorian Ceramic Group, 1973.
Tags: ceramic artist, sculptor, potter, ceramist, Ballarat School of Mines, Victorian Ceramic Group, James Joyce, Bloomsday, Ballynakill Co Galway, Woodford Co Galway, Gryphon Gallery, Pottery in Australia, SKEPSI Gallery, Walker Ceramic Award
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Noel Flood was represented in the 'Australian Ceramics’ exhibition, touring of State and regional galleries 1974-1976 (organised by Australian Gallery Directors’ Conference). In 1977, now head of Ceramics at Melbourne State College, he held a two-person show with fellow staff member John Teschendorff that mocked the view of pottery as craft at 'Art of Man Gallery’.

While Noel enjoyed throwing & producing functional forms, he is probably best known as a sculptor, with audiences not always sure what to make of his challenging female figures. In 1981 (James Joyce’s centenary year), on sabbatical as artist-in-residence at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, he produced a body of work entitled “The Private Parts of James Joyce’s Women”. He was elected president of the Victorian Ceramic Group in 1973.

In the 1980s, Flood advised and collaborated with Wally Curran @ Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, Vic.

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  • Irish Potters Assoc Exhibition. Dublin (exhibited at)
  • International Ceramic Artists Exhibition. Taipei Fine Arts Museum (exhibited at)
  • Inner Sanctum (exhibited at)
  • Formed : Selected works from the Etta Hirsh Ceramics Collection (exhibited at)
  • 'Beyond The Gryphon' (exhibited at)
  • Art Gallery of Ballarat (exhibited at)
  • Victorian Artists' Society (exhibited at)
  • Powell St Gallery. 10 x 10 = 100 (exhibited at)
  • International Bendigo Pottery Award 1976 (exhibited at)
  • Crouch Prize (exhibited at)
  • 'Australian Ceramics' Tour 1974 - 1976 (exhibited at)
  • Third Australian Sculpture Triennial 1987. (exhibited at)
  • Revamp: 50s, 60s & 70s Revisited: Celebrating FEDUNI'S Ballarat Art Schools (exhibited at)
  • Brown -1970's ceramics from the Shepparton Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • Holdsworth Gallery (exhibited at)
  • Alice 125 : Gryph. Master. A celebration of the world's favourite book (exhibited at)
  • Trivial Triumvirate (exhibited at)
  • Art of Man Gallery (exhibited at)
  • The Private Lives of James Joyce's Women (exhibited at)
  • Clay Statements (1986) (exhibited at)
  • Pallottine Missionary College, International Art Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Devise Gallery (exhibited at)
  • Noel Flood & A W Harding @ Victorian Artists Society (exhibited at)
  • Showing Off. Masterworks in Clay by Victorian Ceramists (exhibited at)
  • Colin and Cecily Rigg Craft Award 1994 (exhibited at)
  • delete (exhibited at)
  • Art Imitating Life. Noel Flood. Werner Hammerstingl. Mark Strizic. Pamela Irving. (exhibited at)
  • Telfaris Art Gallery. Dublin. Ireland (exhibited at)
  • 1st International Sculpture & Drawing Exhibition. Cork, Ireland (exhibited at)
  • Trinity University College. Dublin, Ireland (exhibited at)
  • James Joyce exhibition. Alliance Francaise de Dublin (exhibited at)
  • Irish Potters Assoc Exhibition. Dublin (exhibited at)