Born on Darramurragal Country, Sydney. Grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, Perth.
Living on Gadigal and Wangal Country, Sydney.
Represented by sweet pea gallery , Boorloo/Perth
They/He pronouns
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
2024
Perth Institute for Contemporary Art. Curated by Sarah Wall.
2023
Tight crop, Sydenham International, Sydney.
2021
Windchill, Art Gallery of Western Australia, as part of The View From Here. Curated by Isobel Wise.
Sticky Notes, sweet pea, Perth, Western Australia.
2019
PDA, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2015
Room Service, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2012
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Three, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024
Built Photography, Museum of Australian Photography. Curated by Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta.
2023
Sydney Contemporary, showing with sweet pea.
State of Abstraction, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curated by Isobel Wise.
2022
Oh, sweet pea, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano.
Joondalup Invitation Art Prize, Westfield Whitford City (awarded the Inside-out Billboard commission for 2023).
Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
2021
the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Talia Linz.
Love in Bright Landscapes, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. Curated by Annika Kristensen.
2020
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2020, The Netherlands, showing with Perth Centre for Photography.
2019
The Essayist, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney. Curated by Jasmin Stephens.
2018
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Curated by Kiron Robinson.
La Grotta della Chiocciola, CIOMA, PSAS, Fremantle. Curated by Andrew Varano.
WAU!- Focus in Western Australia, Korundi House of culture, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Lapland, Finland. Curated by Jaana Lönnroos.
2017
HERE&NOW17: New Photography, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. Curated by Chelsea Hopper.
2016
New Matter: Recent forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
Invisible Genres, John Curtin Gallery, Perth. Curated by John Mateer.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
City of Perth 2016 Architectural Photographic commission, Perth Centre for Photography.
Miscellaneous #20, Pet projects, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano, Dan Bourke and Gemma Weston.
2015
Frühlings Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
The John Stringer Prize, Kerry Stokes Gallery, Perth.
2014
Transcendental: New Australian Abstract Photography, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
Melbourne Art Fair, Victoria, showing with Turner Galleries.
Dusk to Dark, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Trace, Architectural Musings, Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia. Curated by Leonie Matthews and Amanda Alderson.
2013
Primavera 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales. Curated by Robert Cook.
Bliss, New Video Project, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia. Curated by Sally Quin & Ted Snell.
2011
Remix, WA Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Curated by Jenepher Duncan.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
University of Western Australia
Wesfarmers
North Metropolitian TAFE
Murdoch University
City of Perth
City of Joondalup
EDUCATION
2021
PhD, Curtin University. Thesis title: Collage as Queer Methodology: The Pleasures and Politics of Trans and Queer Photographic Representations
2012
Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University.
2009
Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours), Curtin University.
RESIDENCIES + STUDIOS
2024
One Year Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney.
2022
Groundwork program, 3-month funded residency at Fremantle Arts Centre
2013
PICA Studio Residency, 6 weeks, Perth, Western Australia.
2011
SIM residency, 1 month, The Association of Icelandic visual artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sillanpää Art Residency, 1 month, Varistaipale, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Jack Ball in conversation with Dee Parker, sweet pea gallery website , January.
2021
Indigo Skin, by Max Vos, AGWA’s The View From Here newspaper, November. Also published on sweet
pea gallery website .
Some Sticky Notes by Dee Parker, catalogue essay, sweet pea gallery, November.
2020
Jack Ball focuses on trans bodies through photo-collage, by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide, April 2020.
2019
PDA, by Melissa McGrath, Semaphore , October 2019
2015
TAR Magazine, Transcendence, Issue 12, double page spread with Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin. Issue curated by David Lynch.
Landscape Stories. Out there 03, Australian Photography, by Heidi Romano.
2014
Platform profile, curated by Jasmin Stephens, written by Lucy Rees, ARTAND Australia, 51, No 4.
Dusk to Dark, Catalogue essay by Maurice Ortega, Queensland Centre for Photography.
2013
Primavera 2013, Young Australian Artists, Introduction essay by Robert Cook and Catalogue essay by Iván Muñiz Reed, September 2013.
Primavera Posse, by Amanda Woodard, Art Collector, July-Sept 2013, Issue 65.
Puzzles offer food for mind, by Laetitia Wilson, The West Australian, 2-3 March 2013.
2012
The Great Unknowns, by Robert Cook, Scoop Homes and Art Magazine, Spring 2012, Edition 34.
2011
Remix catalogue essay by Jenepher Duncan, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
2010
A Collection Of Organised Spaces Part Two, Catalogue essay. Set up- Filmic Theatre and the Photographs of Jack Ball by Ric Spencer.
Living on Gadigal and Wangal Country, Sydney.
Represented by sweet pea gallery , Boorloo/Perth
They/He pronouns
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
2024
Perth Institute for Contemporary Art. Curated by Sarah Wall.
2023
Tight crop, Sydenham International, Sydney.
2021
Windchill, Art Gallery of Western Australia, as part of The View From Here. Curated by Isobel Wise.
Sticky Notes, sweet pea, Perth, Western Australia.
2019
PDA, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2015
Room Service, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2012
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Three, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024
Built Photography, Museum of Australian Photography. Curated by Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta.
2023
Sydney Contemporary, showing with sweet pea.
State of Abstraction, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curated by Isobel Wise.
2022
Oh, sweet pea, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano.
Joondalup Invitation Art Prize, Westfield Whitford City (awarded the Inside-out Billboard commission for 2023).
Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
2021
the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Talia Linz.
Love in Bright Landscapes, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. Curated by Annika Kristensen.
2020
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2020, The Netherlands, showing with Perth Centre for Photography.
2019
The Essayist, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney. Curated by Jasmin Stephens.
2018
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Curated by Kiron Robinson.
La Grotta della Chiocciola, CIOMA, PSAS, Fremantle. Curated by Andrew Varano.
WAU!- Focus in Western Australia, Korundi House of culture, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Lapland, Finland. Curated by Jaana Lönnroos.
2017
HERE&NOW17: New Photography, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. Curated by Chelsea Hopper.
2016
New Matter: Recent forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
Invisible Genres, John Curtin Gallery, Perth. Curated by John Mateer.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
City of Perth 2016 Architectural Photographic commission, Perth Centre for Photography.
Miscellaneous #20, Pet projects, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano, Dan Bourke and Gemma Weston.
2015
Frühlings Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
The John Stringer Prize, Kerry Stokes Gallery, Perth.
2014
Transcendental: New Australian Abstract Photography, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
Melbourne Art Fair, Victoria, showing with Turner Galleries.
Dusk to Dark, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Trace, Architectural Musings, Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia. Curated by Leonie Matthews and Amanda Alderson.
2013
Primavera 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales. Curated by Robert Cook.
Bliss, New Video Project, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia. Curated by Sally Quin & Ted Snell.
2011
Remix, WA Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Curated by Jenepher Duncan.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
University of Western Australia
Wesfarmers
North Metropolitian TAFE
Murdoch University
City of Perth
City of Joondalup
EDUCATION
2021
PhD, Curtin University. Thesis title: Collage as Queer Methodology: The Pleasures and Politics of Trans and Queer Photographic Representations
2012
Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University.
2009
Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours), Curtin University.
RESIDENCIES + STUDIOS
2024
One Year Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney.
2022
Groundwork program, 3-month funded residency at Fremantle Arts Centre
2013
PICA Studio Residency, 6 weeks, Perth, Western Australia.
2011
SIM residency, 1 month, The Association of Icelandic visual artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sillanpää Art Residency, 1 month, Varistaipale, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Jack Ball in conversation with Dee Parker, sweet pea gallery website , January.
2021
Indigo Skin, by Max Vos, AGWA’s The View From Here newspaper, November. Also published on sweet
pea gallery website .
Some Sticky Notes by Dee Parker, catalogue essay, sweet pea gallery, November.
2020
Jack Ball focuses on trans bodies through photo-collage, by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide, April 2020.
2019
PDA, by Melissa McGrath, Semaphore , October 2019
2015
TAR Magazine, Transcendence, Issue 12, double page spread with Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin. Issue curated by David Lynch.
Landscape Stories. Out there 03, Australian Photography, by Heidi Romano.
2014
Platform profile, curated by Jasmin Stephens, written by Lucy Rees, ARTAND Australia, 51, No 4.
Dusk to Dark, Catalogue essay by Maurice Ortega, Queensland Centre for Photography.
2013
Primavera 2013, Young Australian Artists, Introduction essay by Robert Cook and Catalogue essay by Iván Muñiz Reed, September 2013.
Primavera Posse, by Amanda Woodard, Art Collector, July-Sept 2013, Issue 65.
Puzzles offer food for mind, by Laetitia Wilson, The West Australian, 2-3 March 2013.
2012
The Great Unknowns, by Robert Cook, Scoop Homes and Art Magazine, Spring 2012, Edition 34.
2011
Remix catalogue essay by Jenepher Duncan, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
2010
A Collection Of Organised Spaces Part Two, Catalogue essay. Set up- Filmic Theatre and the Photographs of Jack Ball by Ric Spencer.