14 Facts About Sydney Ball

Sydney Ball has been called 'one of Australia's leading colour abstract painters.

Sydney Ball has been credited with bringing large scale abstract expressionist paintings, or Color Field paintings, to Australia.

Sydney Ball was born in 1933 in Adelaide, South Australia.

In 1962, Ball moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under Theodoros Stamos.

Sydney Ball returned to Australia in 1965 helping to bring abstract techniques to the attention of Australian artists.

Sydney Ball lived and worked in Glenorie, New South Wales in his later years.

Sydney Ball worked on the Modular series between 1968 and 1969.

Sydney Ball moved on from purely hard-edged abstraction after a return to New York between 1969 and 1971.

Sydney Ball's work has been the subject of over 50 solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions in Australia and the United States of America.

In 1968 Sydney Ball's work was included in the influential exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria, demonstrating the arrival of hard edged abstraction in Australian art.

Sydney Ball's work has been featured in the many exhibitions that have revisited the impacts of that exhibition on Australian art, such as Birth of the cool at the Samstag Museum, Adelaide.

Sydney Ball's work is in the collections of most major public galleries in Australia, including ten works in the National Gallery of Australia.

Internationally, Sydney Ball has work in the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea.

In 2014, Sydney Ball donated 30 of his works, valued at one million dollars, to the University of South Australia.