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 has exhibited thrown functional wares & sculpture. He also had an extensive career as an educator.
Noel Flood was one of the artists represented in the Australian Ceramics exhibition that toured State and regional galleries in 1974-76. In 1977, now head of the Dpt of Ceramics at Melbourne State College, he held a two-man 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 sabatical leave 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”.
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