Sydney Ball
- Date of birth
- 1933
- Date of death
- 2017
- Notes
- Sydney Ball was born in Adelaide in 1933. He is widely considered a pioneer in Australian Abstraction, and his long and impressive career has had a formidable impact on Australian art. Definitively a colourist, Ball spent his formative years living and studying in New York at the Art Students League under Theodoros Stamos, one of the ‘irascible eighteen’, which also included Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Ball’s oeuvre was expansive and diverse, with each series marked by a monumental and dynamic change. All, however, share the prerogative to investigate the possibilities of colour and form; from the lyrical abstraction that defines his Stain paintings to the architectonic coloured forms of his famed Modular works. Ball continued to ambitiously push the limits of his own practice to greater heights while also having significant relevance as a contemporary Australian artist. Ball exhibited prolifically with more than 70 solo exhibitions both in Australia and overseas and is represented in public collections across Australia and internationally. Sydney Ball died in 2017 in Sydney. Source: https://www.sullivanstrumpf.com/artists/sydney-ball/bio
