BALL, SYDNEY CV

www.sydneyballart.com.au

Born Adelaide, South Australia, 1933
Art Students League, New York (under Theodore Stamos)
South Australian School of Art.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

1995-97 Commission for Opera Trust of New South Wales, design of three wine labels for auction)
1991 Commission for the Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney, (3 paintings)
1988 Two Print Purchase Awards, Tenth British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, UK
Leeuwin Estate Wine Label, Perth, WA )
1984 Painting Purchase Award, Muswellbrook Painting Awards, NSW
Painting Purchase Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
1980 Patron Print Commission, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, VIC
1978 Print Purchase Award, Caulfield City Council Permanent Collection, VIC
1977 Painting Purchase Prize-Australian Colourist 1977: Annual Invitation Exhibition, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, WA
Print Purchase Award, National Print and Drawing Exhibition Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
Print Purchase Award, The Alice Springs Art Awards, Alice Springs, NT
1973 Queensland Art Gallery Trustees Prize, Brisbane, QLD
Commonwealth Visual Arts Grant
1972 Latrobe Valley Invitation Art Purchase Prize, Morwell, VIC
1968 Corio Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne, VIC
Benalla Invitation Purchase Art Prize, Melbourne, VIC
1967 Special Prize, Perth Festival Invitation Exhibition, Perth, WA
1965 Mirror-Waratah Invitation Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1964 Ford Foundation Scholarship for Painting, New York USA

COLLECTIONS

Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide, SA
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA
Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs, NT
American Express Art Foundation, New York, USA
Armidale City Art Gallery, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA Artbank, Sydney, NSW
ANZ Banking Corporation, Melbourne, VIC
Auckland Art Gallery - Chartwell Collection, NZ
Australian Broadcasting Commission, Adelaide, SA
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Brazilian Embassy, Canberra, ACT
BHP Collection, Melbourne, VIC
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
Benalla Art Gallery, VIC
Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Caulfield Municipal Art Collection, Melbourne, VIC
Christchurch City Art Gallery, NZ
Christensen Collection, Perth, WA
College of Fine Art Collection, University of NSW
Curtin University, College of Art, Perth, WA
Darwin Community College, NT
Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC
Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA
Eyton on Yarra Estate Collection, Vic
Family Law Court, Canberra, ACT
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
Griffith University, Griffith QLD
Heide Park and Art Gallery Collection, Melbourne, VIC )
Holmes a'Court Collection, Perth, WA
Irving Deal Collection, Dallas Texas, USA )
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth WA
Kuringai College, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
Latrobe Valley Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC
Latrobe University, Geelong, VIC
Leeuwin Estate Collection, WA
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW
Monash University, Melbourne, VIC
Munsen-Williams-Proctor Arts Centre, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, VIC
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Murdoch University, Perth, WA
Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
National Australia Bank, Melbourne, VIC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW
Parliament House Collection, Canberra, ACT
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, VIC
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Queensland Arts Council, Brisbane, QLD
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
Rural and Industries Bank, Perth, WA
RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
State Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
State Bank of New Zealand Collection, NZ
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
UBS Collection, Sydney, NSW University of Melbourne, VIC
University of New South Wales, NSW
University of Canberra, ACT
University of New England, Armidale, NSW
University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Val Morgan Collection, Melbourne, VIC Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Private collections throughout Australia, USA, France, UK, Canada, Korea and Malaysia.
Val Morgan Collection, Melbourne, Vic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Structures 2: Abstract Architecture, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery,
Sydney, NSW
2006 The Stain Paintings 1973-79, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2005 Structures, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2004 That Which colours spaceBMG Art, Adelaide, SA 2003 Modular Paintings 1968-69 + Canto 2003 edition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2001 Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2000 Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1999 Sydney Ball: Defining Journeys, Anima Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1998 Sydney Ball: Enigmas and Variations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1996 Sydney Ball: Images From Along the Way (A Tribute to Alexandra David-Neel), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995 Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994 Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1990 Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1988 Bicentennial Festival, Perth, Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1987 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Survey Paintings 1985-86, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
1986 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1984 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1983 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1982 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1981 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Prints and Drawings, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1980 Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Axiom Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1978 Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, SA
1976 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Survey Exhibition, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, QLD
Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1975 Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA
Survey Exhibition 1965-75, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
1974 Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1973 Bonython Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1971 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide, SA
1969 John Gild Gallery, Perth, WA
Bonython Galleries, Sydney and Adelaide
1968 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1967 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide, SA
Prints and Sculptures, Strines Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1966 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1965 Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
1964 Westerly Gallery New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Abstraction 1965-1985 from the collection of the AGNSW
"The Year in Art" SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2006 SSFA06, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
New to the Modern - Heide 25 Years On, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen VIC
Big Paintings, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Perth WA
SNO Gallery group exhibition: Eastaway,Butroni, Ball, Collective, Marrickville NSW
2005 SNO Galley Group exhibition, Panatteri, Andrews, Eastaway, Ball, Marrickville NSW
SSFA05, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
6 Years Abstraction, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, VIC
2003 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2003, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria
Art 34 Basel, Switzerland, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Australian Masters, Solander Gallery, Canberra
2002 Paperwork2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Australian Art: The '60s til Now, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Australian Colour Field and Hard Edge Painting of the 1960s and 1970s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Australian Masters, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Inside and Out: Sculpture from the Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
1999 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Three Generations, Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Collage, curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Artifice: The Heide II Decades, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD
Sydney Ball, Dale Hickey, David Rankin, Andrew Christofides and David Serisier, Robert, Steele Gallery, Adelaide SA
1997 I Had a Dream, Australian Art in the '60s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Swingtime-East Coast Works from the 1960s-70s, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
1992 Sydney Ball & Hoon Kwak, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1991 Tribute to Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1990 Circa 69 AD, Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia, SA
1989 3rd International Contemporary Art Exposition, Los Angeles, USA
1988 Contemporary Australian Art Houston International Festival, Houston, USA
International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA
1987 Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Second International Art Exposition, Los Angeles, USA
1986 International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA
Paradoxical Abstraction-New Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Backlash: the Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
1985 Australian Art in our Time, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA
1984 The Australians, CDS Gallery, New York, USA
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Selections from the Chartwell Collection, Hamilton Art Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
1983 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize 1983, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Australian Perspecta II, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
1982 Visions in Disbelief: 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
The Seventies: Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
1981 Visions After Light: Art in South Australia 1836-1981, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
The Joseph Brown Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1978 Artists from Australia, Powell Street Gallery at Cunningham-Ward Gallery, New York, USA
1976 Australian Colourists '77, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, Painting purchase award
1975 Ten Australians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1974 Expo '74, Spokane, USA
First Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Ten Australians, International tour: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Institut fur Aslandabeziehungen, Stuttgart; Galleria Internazionale, Milan; L'Accademia dell' Arte e Disegno, Florence; Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Ca'pesaro, Venice
1973 Trustees Invitation Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (winner)
1972 Australian Paintings of the Past 20 Years, London and Sydney
1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne, VIC (winner)
1967 Contemporary Australian Painting, Los Angeles, San Francisco, USA
The Mertz Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA and national American tour.
Corio Prize Invitation Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC (winner)
Contemporary Australian Painting, New Delhi, India
Benalla Invitation Prize, Benalla Art Gallery, VIC, (Acquired through the prize)
Directions, Arts Council of Australia, Canberra, ACT
1966 Contemporary Australian Drawing, Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW
Wardle Invitation Exhibition, Perth. (Special prize winner)
1965 The Mirror-Waratah Invitation Prize Exhibition, Sydney (winner)
The New Edge, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA
1964 Drawing 64, Green Gallery, New York, USA
The New York Scene, Travelling Exhibition, Pennsylvania, USA
American Drawing Now, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA

PRINTMAKING EXHIBITIONS

1989 Sydney Ball: A Jubilant Light: A Survey of Prints 1964-1988, Wollongong City Art Gallery and tour-Orange Regional Art Gallery, Garrick Hill Museum,
Adelaide, SA
1988 Tenth British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, UK, then national tour-Aberdeen, Cardiff, Coventry, Ipswich, London (two Purchase Print Awards).
Bicentennial Collection: A Portfolio of Australian Artists, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Prints and Australia-Pre-settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Woodcut 1905-1989, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney and Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW
1982 Recent Australian Screen Prints, National Australian State Gallery Tour
1981 Recent Serigraphs, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1978 Australian Printmaking, National tour of Sweden
Screen Prints, Printmakers Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Print Council of Australia Exhibition. Awarded the Patron Print Commission
1977 National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (Purchase Prize Award)
Alice Springs Art Awards: Print Exhibition, Alice Springs, NT (Purchase Print Award)
1975 Twentieth Century Graphics-A Selection from the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
1974 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1972 Printmaking in Australia 1912-1972, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
1968 6th International Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1966 Australian Print Council Survey, National Australian tour

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1996 Travelled to Nusa Tenggara Islands of Indonesia visiting Animist villages in Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores
1993 Travelled to China, journeyed to Wutai Mountains visiting Tang and Song Dynasty Temples; the Buddhist caves at Datong and Luoyang.
1991 Travelled to Korea, visited Buddhist temples of Kyongju, Pulguk, Pusok, T'ongdo and Haein. Travelled to China visiting Wei Jin and Han Dynasty sites of Jiayuguan and Mogao caves at Dunhuang as well as the Buddhist caves at Bingliza, Lanzhou.
1990 Travelled to Korea, lectured on Australian Art at the Hong-Ik University, Suwon University and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. Studied in the studio of Master Ceramist Kim Ki-Chul.
1989 Travelled to India, trekking to Ladakh. Of special interest-the Buddhist monasteries of Lamayuru, Sheh, Tikse and Hemis.
1988 Guest Lecturer, Arts Forum, Gippsland College of Advanced Education, Gippsland, Victoria.
1987 Visited China and Tibet; lectured on Australian Art at the Central Academy of Art, Beijing; The China Publishing Company, Beijing; Chengdu Academy of Art, Chengdu, Sichuan Province; the University of Tibet, Lhasa; Lhasa Artists Association, Lhasa. Of special interest-the Buddhist and B'on symbols of Lamaseries, Serra, Drepung, Ganden, Jokhang. Journeyed to the Sacred Lake of Nam-Tso.
1985 Travelled Nepal and India, trekking to Khumbu glacier, the Himalayan High Plateau. Of special interest-Buddhist art and symbols: visited Buddhist monasteries and temples in Khatmandu, Hille, Bung and Thangboche. Journeyed to Western India, visiting Hindu and Jain temples in New Delhi, Jaipur and Agra.
Artist-in-Residence, School of Art, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth WA
1984 Panel member, Australian Art of the '80s seminar, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne VIC
1983 Guest Lecturer, Arts Forum, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, TAS
1981 Panel member, Australian and European Imagination seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
1979 Six-month study tour of England, Western Europe, Greece and Hungary. Of special interest were the prehistoric sites of England, France and Spain; and ethnographical museums, especially the British Museum, Paris, Vienna, Cologne and Basel.
1978 Panel member, Art Gallery of New South Wales seminar-Painting in the '70s.
1975 Travelled to the islands of the South Pacific. Special interest in Polynesian and Melanesian art and artefacts.
Artist-in-Residence, University of New England (summer school).
1974-88 Appointed Senior Lecturer in Art, City Art Institute, SCAE, Sydney.
1969-71 Returned to New York and full-time painting, extensive museum study and
travel in USA. Returned to Australia.
1965-69 Lecturer at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide.
1963-65 Travelled to New York. Full-time studies at the Art Students League of New York. Travelled to Canada and Japan. Of special interest-the Buddhist and Shinto shrines of Kyoto and Nara.