Australian Artist Rick Ball specializes in painting strong images of the human spirit within the land, with an outsiderŐs approach to imaginative Australian painting, dance in art, contemporary Primitive art, expressionist painting, modern primitive thought, and a profound interest in prehistoric issues in art around Broken Hill Australia.
Working from his outback studio in Broken Hill, Australia, Rick has 35 years experience as an innovative artist and art teacher to many cultures and subcultures within this multicultural nation and he has held many major art exhibitions Australia-wide, and in Europe, Asia, and New York. Broken Hill artists.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
1984 Bachelor of
Visual Arts, City Arts Institute
1977 Diploma Education, Sydney Teachers College
1976 Graduated National Art School, Sydney
1973 Commenced National Art School, Sydney
2012 Outback Art Prize (Winner), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery. Judge: Deb Wall
2009 Outback Art Prize (Runner-up), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery. Judge: Alan Sisley
1985 Blue Mountains
Easter Art. Judge: Cam Grey
1984 Blackheath Festival Open Art. Judge: Joshua Smith
1982 Blackheath Festival Drawing
1981 Blackheath Festival Still Life. Judge: Brian
Stratton
1979 Blackheath Festival Still Life. Judge: Reinis
Zusters
2016 Contemporary Primeval, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2011 Rex Livingston Galleries, Sydney
2010 The Simple Difficulty, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2009 Recent Works on Paper, Eye to Eye Gallery, Adelaide
2005 Recent Works, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2002 Recent Works, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2001 Survey of Recent Works, University of Western
Sydney
1998 BDAS Gallery, Southern Highlands
1997 La Caminade Studio, Brussels, Belgium
1996 BDAS Gallery, Southern Highlands
1993 Playing in the Sandpit, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1991 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
1990 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1998 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1987 Breewood Gallery, Blue Mountains
1986 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1982 Home Exhibition, Lawson, Blue Mountains
2015 Represented NSW regional art at Australia Museum of Democracy, Canberra
2015 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2014 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2012 Tres Artistas de Las Antipodas, Spain
2012 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2011 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2009 Wilcannia Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2007 Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2007 Fairfax/IBM Building, Sydney
2006 Fairfax/IBM Building, Sydney
2006 Darling Park Foyer, IBM Building, Sydney
2005 Outback Art Prize
2004 RFDS Outback Artists, Darling Harbour
2004 Outback Art Prize
2004 Broken Archies, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2003 Outback Art Prize
2002 Campbelltown Regional Gallery
2001 Alvaro Art Prize
2000 Six Australian Viewpoints, Albert Street Gallery, Mittagong
2000 New York, Soho Gallery, 6 Australian Artists
1999 Kedumba Drawing Prize
1997 Australian Connection, Brussels
1996 A to Z, Australia to Zimbabwe at the Zimbabwean
National Gallery
1995 Rare Finds, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1994 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong
1994 Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1993 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong
1993 Coast to Coast – 10 NSW Artists
Exhibition, Perth WA
1990 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
1990 Sun Worship, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1989 Mixed Exhibition, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1988 Editions Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
1988 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1987 National Parks and Wildlife Heritage Exhibition,
Blackheath
1987 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1986 7 Blue Mountains Artists, Delmar Weekend Gallery,
Sydney
1986 Australian Paintings, Barry Stern Galleries
1986 Sydney Morning Herald Heritage Exhibition,
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1985 10 Blue Mountains Artists, Blackheath Festival
1985 City Heritage Travelling Exhibition, Sydney
Morning Herald, Blaxland
1985 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
1985 Breewood Galleries, Blue Mountains
1985 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1984 Blackheath Festival Art Prize
1983 A Shared Environment, Penrith Regional Gallery
1982 Painters' Drawings, Pointon Galleries
1977 Exhibition of Friends Festival of Sydney
1976 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Park Hyatt Hotel, Sydney
Twin Towers Resort, Queensland
Ramada Hotel, Sydney
Rosehill International Hotel, Sydney
AMP, Sydney
IBM, Sydney
CCHS, Sydney
Sheraton on the Park, Sydney
Goodman Fielder
Park Royal Hotel, Sydney Airport
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Lauda Air, Brussels
Mittagong RSL
Blue Mountains City Council
Australia, UK, USA, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Belgium and New Zealand
2010 Stateline, ABC
2007 Sunday Arts, ABC
The Refining Fire – Dawn Mendham, Albatross Press, Melbourne, 1987
New Art One – Nevill
Drury, Craftsman House, 1986
Art on the Cove – A
Collection of Australian Art – Olsen and McEwen, EIE
Wesnik Design, 1991
Images 2 - Nevill Drury,
Craftsman House, 1994
Images 3 – Nevill
Drury, Craftsman House, 1998
Stones Don't Speak –
Vivienne Schroeder, 1998