
Noel McKenna: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Noel McKenna is a finalist in the 2026 Wynne & Sulman Prizes and his work also features in two exhibitions showing at Newcastle Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.

Noel McKenna is a finalist in the 2026 Wynne & Sulman Prizes and his work also features in two exhibitions showing at Newcastle Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.

As part of the FUTURE COUNTRY: Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions mentorship program, Brenda L. Croft mentored Paul Girrawah House.

Opening in April 2026, John Brack x Noel McKenna at the National Portrait Gallery bring together the work of two influential Australian artists.

Noel McKenna is the winner of The Darling Portrait Prize and a finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize and The Wynne Prize.

Brenda L. Croft features in the exhibition Reflecting Lenses: Twenty Years of Photography at the Gorman Museum in California, USA and is a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
In addition, she is featured in an Art Guide article exploring ancestral legacies and her continued engagement with family and culture in her practice.

Art Collection Up Close install photo with artworks by Uncle Noel Blair,
Kathleen Shillam, Laurindo de Abreu Soto, Claude Jones, Noel McKenna and Pat Hoffie
Image courtesy of the City of Moreton Bay, photograph by Louis Lim
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