Gothic Ballarat
Melbourne painter, David Noonan, talks about Ballarat's gothicity:
'The city itself has a kind of brooding feel ... The architecture, the weather is very grey. I was around 15 and I was getting into punk and post-punk music, Nick Cave and so on, and we had a little counter-culture going on in town. Tony Clark was my favourite artist back then.
'In some ways it was very romantic, it had a very European feel. But then I went to the VCA with all of its theory and it was hard to justify any of that. But there is definitely a connection with the later work and those earlier years.'