Sarah Ball in conversation with Phillip Edward Spradley Online
Sarah Ball in conversation with Phillip Edward Spradley, cultural producer, discussing her artistic practice, recent projects, and studio processes.
Sarah Ball’s meticulously rendered portraits explore themes of gender and identity. Demonstrating an acute sensitivity to the psyche of her subjects, she emphasises physical characteristics that define how we outwardly portray ourselves to the world.
The artist uses source material such as newspaper cuttings, archival photographs and social media to inform her portraits. Often depicting people who celebrate self-expression and contest traditional binary norms, Ball highlights physiognomy, hairstyles, clothes, jewellery and make-up that reveal the idiosyncrasies of her anonymous, often unknowing sitters. Set against flat planes of colour and confined within closely cropped compositions, the artist lends the people within her work a surreal, timeless quality by denying the viewer any form of narrative about their identity.
This program is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture.
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