Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' landscape 'Peel Me a Lotus'

'Peel Me a Lotus'

King’s birds are suspended between life and death

'Picnic overlooking the bluff'

If those works confront the extremes of human behaviour

Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' landscape 'Peel Me a Lotus'Sydney Ball is Australias foremost pioneer of abstract art, whose work is marked by an instinct for the cutting edge. Throughout his long and successful career, Ball explored many styles across his printmaking, painting and drawing including Hard edge Abstraction, Colour Field and Lyrical Abstraction. However, it was his undying love for colour and its ability to add music to a simple form that earned him his reputation as a master composer of graphic