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Peter Eugene Ball was born in Coventry in 1943. He attended Coventry College of Art from 1957 until 1962. He joined the Marjorie Parr Gallery, King's Road, Chelsea in 1960 where he had his first one man show in 1967. Since then he has devoted himself to his work, exhibiting and selling through galleries across Europe and in America. He also regularly undertakes religious commissions for churches and cathedrals as well as private commissions for more secular work.
From an early age, the powerful visual images of paintings, sculptures and architectural forms have made a deep impression on Peter Ball. His interest was aroused while still at secondary school, where enlightened history teachers brought their subject alive by taking boys on frequent outings. One of the most memorable of these was to Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire which many years later, by coincidence, became the first cathedral to commission a major work by him. He also acquired much first hand knowledge whilst accompanying Geoffrey Saunders, an art history tutor, on trips around the British Isles during the 1960's. Together they made a photographic survey of many ancient buildings and monuments. From this Peter developed a love of Celtic and Romanesque carvings, both religious and secular.
Peter still spends what time he can visiting places which are a constant source of fascination to him - rural churches, grand cathedrals and other ancient monuments where he can absorb his surroundings and sift their very atmosphere for "visual quotations" which he later incorporates into his own work. This ability to comprehend and interpret visual messages has enabled him to become a part of a stream of creative activity evident in the sculptors and masons of early Christian monuments and their pagan forebears. In his constant pursuit of suitable found objects to undergo metamorphosis into one of his saints or satyrs, Peter haunts sea shores, flea markets and junk shops; objects which may immediately reveal their potential or others which may sit gathering dust in his studio for years until suddenly he recognises how to incorporate them into a current piece of sculpture.
While Peter Ball's work does not have an overtly religious tone, he has drawn on the strong influences of his past, distilling into the recurrent themes apparent today in his unique work. In an age which seems increasingly superficial and godless, many people find themselves at a loss to articulate their emotions about art and a spiritual world. Somehow the work of Peter Ball reveals a way through and provides a medium for the expression of our inner thoughts. |
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