Documentation : Exhibitions
Current and Recent EXHIBITIONS
Sydney Ball, In Light of Colour
Colour Survey 1965-2007,
Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery, Sydney , 2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2008 | Sydney Ball, In Light of Colour 1965-2008, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery, Sydney |
| 2007 | Sydney Ball, Structures 2, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery, Sydney |
| 2006 | The Stain Paintings 1970-79, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 | Sydney Ball, Structures1 Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art Gallery, Sydney. |
| 2004 | That Which colours space, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA. |
| 2003 | Modular Paintings 1968-69 + Canto prints edition Sarah Cottier Gallery Sydney |
| Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Solander Gallery, Canberra | |
| 2001 | Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2000 | Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Solander Galleries, Canberra |
| 1999 | Sydney Ball: Defining Journeys, Anima Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1998 | Sydney Ball: Enigmas and Variations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Sydney Ball: Images From Along the Way (A Tribute to Alexandra David-Neel), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 1994 | Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 1989 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Bicentennial Festival, Perth Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth |
| Macquarie Galleries, Sydney | |
| 1987 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Survey Paintings 1985-86, Wollongong City Art Gallery | |
| 1986 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| Solander Galleries, Canberra | |
| 1985 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth | |
| Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1984 | Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide |
| Macquarie Galleries, Sydney | |
| Solander Galleries, Canberra | |
| 1983 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
| Macquarie Galleries, Sydney | |
| 1982 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| Solander Galleries, Canberra | |
| 1981 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| Prints and Drawings, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide | |
| 1980 | Solander Gallery, Canberra |
| Axiom Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1978 | Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide |
| Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1977 | Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney |
| 1976 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| Survey Exhibition, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane | |
| 1975 | Solander Galleries, Canberra |
| Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide | |
| Survey Exhibition 1965-75, Newcastle City Art Gallery | |
| 1974 | Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1973 | Bonython Galleries, Sydney |
| 1971 | Bonython Galleries, Adelaide |
| 1969 | John Gild Gallery, Perth |
| Bonython Galleries, Sydney and Adelaide | |
| 1968 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1967 | Bonython Galleries, Adelaide |
| Prints and Sculptures, Strines Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1966 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| Watters Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1965 | Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 1964 | Westerly Gallery New York, USA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2008 | SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW. |
| "This Way Up: Abstract Works from the La Trobe University Collection", La Trobe University Art Museum, VIC. | |
| 2007 | 2007 The Year in Art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
| Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. | |
| SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW. | |
| Often Spotted Rarely Seen.. Celebrating 40 years of Collecting. La Trobe University Art Museum, La Trobe, Geelong, Victoria. | |
| Australian Abstraction 1965-1985 from the collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales. | |
| 2006 | SSFA06, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW. |
| New to the Modern-Heide 25 Years on, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Victoria. | |
| Big Paintings, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Perth, WA. | |
| SNO Gallery,Group Exhibition, Eastaway, Butroni, Ball, Collective, Marrickville NSW. | |
| 2005 | SNO Gallery,Group Exhibition, Panatteri, Andrews, Eastaway, Ball, Marrickville NSW |
| SSFA05, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW. | |
| 6 Years Abstraction, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, VIC. | |
| 2004 | Fresh fields, The Charles Nodrum Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, North Ryde Australia. |
| 2003 | Ten, Sarah Cottier, Sydney NSW. |
| Abstraction 3, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. | |
| 2003 The Year in Art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| This was the future - Australian Sculpture of the 50s - Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne | |
| 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 | Paperwork 2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney |
| 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 |
| Three Generations, Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT | |
| Collage, curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Artifice: The Heide II Decades, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne | |
| 1998 | Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, the University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| Sydney Ball, Dale Hickey, David Rankin, Andrew Christofides and David Serisier, Robert, Steele Gallery, Adelaide | |
| 1997 | I Had a Dream, Australian Art in the '60s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Swingtime-East Coast Works from the 1960s-70s, The University of Western Australia, Perth | |
| 1992 | Sydney Ball & Hoon Kwak, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1991 | Tribute to Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1990 | Circa 69 AD, Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia |
| 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 |
| Second International Art Exposition, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 1986 | International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA |
| Paradoxical Abstraction-New Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney | |
| Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Backlash: the Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| 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 |
| Australian Perspecta II, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart | |
| Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth | |
| 1982 | Visions in Disbelief: 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| The Seventies: Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| 1981 | Visions After Light: Art in South Australia 1836-1981, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 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 |
| 1974 | Expo '74, Spokane, USA |
| First Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House Gallery, Sydney | |
| 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. | |
| 1972 | Trustees Invitation Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (winner) 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 (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 | |
| 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) |
| 1964 | The New Edge, Andre, Huot, Barry, Norman, Ball, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA |
| Drawing 64, Green Gallery, New York, USA | |
| The New York Scene, Travelling Exhibition, Bates Gallery, Edinboro, University of Pennsylvania, USA | |
| American Drawing Now, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA |
PRINTS 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 |
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| Prints and Australia-Pre-settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
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| 1982 | Woodcut 1905-1989, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney and Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW |
| Recent Australian Screen Prints, National Australian State Gallery Tour |
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| 1981 | Recent Serigraphs, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 1980 | Fifteen Australian Printmakers, Print Council of Australia, Brisbane, QLD |
| 1978 | Australian Printmaking, National tour of Sweden |
| Print Purchase Awards, Cualfield Art Center, VIC, (Purchase Print Award) |
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| Screen Prints, Printmakers Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Print Council of Australia Exhibition. Awarded the Patron Print Commission |
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| 1977 | National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (Purchase Prize Award) |
| Australian Printmakers, Sydney, NSW | |
| Alice Springs Art Awards: Print Exhibition, Alice Springs, NT (Purchase Print Award) |
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| 1976 | Outlines of Australian Printmaking, Ballarat City Art Gallery, VIC, (Print Aquisition) |
| 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 |
| 1967 | Print Council of Australia, Print Prize |
| 1966 | Australian Print Council Survey, National Australian tour |
COLLECTIONS
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Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide, SA Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 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, Perth. 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 Ballarat City Art Gallery, VIC Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW Brazilian Embassy, Canberra, ACT BHP Collection, Melbourne, VIC Benalla Art Gallery, VIC Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC Caulfield Municipal Art Collection, Melbourne, VIC Christchurch City Art Gallery, New Zealand 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 Dickson Rothschild Collection, Sydney, NSW 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 Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, VIC Holmes a'Court Collection, Perth Irving Deal Collection Dallas Texas,USA. Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth,WA Kuringai College, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW Latrobe Valley Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC La Trobe University, Geelong, VIC Leeuwin Estate Collection, WA Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, VIC Monash University, Melbourne, VIC Munsen-Williams-Proctor Arts Centre, New York, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW 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 University, Melbourne, VIC State Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW State Bank of New Zealand Collection 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 The University of Melbourne, VIC The 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. |