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Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
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- Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney-based artist wins $100,000 prize with work drawing on Queer Archives
Sydney-based artist Jack Ball has won the lucrative Ramsay Art Prize with a work made from collage photographs assembled with rope, wax sculptures, stained-glass, copper pipe and sprinkled with charcoal and garden dirt. Ball's installation Heavy Grit was selected from 22 finalists and more than 500 entries, a record for the $100,000 art prize which offers the same cash pool as the long-running Archibald Prize for portraiture. The winning abstract work is part photography, part soft-form sculpture, and was inspired from a collection of scrapbooks held in the Australian Queer Archives at Darlinghurst. The journals contain newspaper clippings referencing transgender lives between the 1950s and 1970s. Judges were impressed with the work's 'restless, kinetic quality' and its 'experimental processes and sophisticated creative resolve'. The $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize is one of the nation's richest for young Australian contemporary artists aged under 40 years for a single work they have completed in the last 12 months. It is awarded every two years to diverse works of any medium. Loading Perth-born Ball pinned and layered printed, irregularly shaped images to the wall, framed them behind amber-stained glass, as well as slung them over suspended ropes and copper pipe anchored by sand-filled purple anchors. The work first appeared as a centrepiece of their solo show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in late 2024. Ball doesn't literally show the pages but mixes the shapes and page edges from the journals and newspaper clippings with other more personal images to create what the gallery describes as 'a vivid interplay between the past and the present'. Ball has previously said the slippery meaning of the abstract work compares with their own personal experience of gender identity.
The Age
3 days ago
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- The Age
Sydney-based artist wins $100,000 prize with work drawing on Queer Archives
Sydney-based artist Jack Ball has won the lucrative Ramsay Art Prize with a work made from collage photographs assembled with rope, wax sculptures, stained-glass, copper pipe and sprinkled with charcoal and garden dirt. Ball's installation Heavy Grit was selected from 22 finalists and more than 500 entries, a record for the $100,000 art prize which offers the same cash pool as the long-running Archibald Prize for portraiture. The winning abstract work is part photography, part soft-form sculpture, and was inspired from a collection of scrapbooks held in the Australian Queer Archives at Darlinghurst. The journals contain newspaper clippings referencing transgender lives between the 1950s and 1970s. Judges were impressed with the work's 'restless, kinetic quality' and its 'experimental processes and sophisticated creative resolve'. The $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize is one of the nation's richest for young Australian contemporary artists aged under 40 years for a single work they have completed in the last 12 months. It is awarded every two years to diverse works of any medium. Loading Perth-born Ball pinned and layered printed, irregularly shaped images to the wall, framed them behind amber-stained glass, as well as slung them over suspended ropes and copper pipe anchored by sand-filled purple anchors. The work first appeared as a centrepiece of their solo show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in late 2024. Ball doesn't literally show the pages but mixes the shapes and page edges from the journals and newspaper clippings with other more personal images to create what the gallery describes as 'a vivid interplay between the past and the present'. Ball has previously said the slippery meaning of the abstract work compares with their own personal experience of gender identity.
Perth Now
29-04-2025
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- Perth Now
Annual market and exhibition draws 8000-strong crowd
Beltran Firpo & Imogen Sorby at the Revealed exhibition at PICA. Picture: Alan Chau / The West Australian From the South West to the Kimberley, Revealed at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts brings together more than 400 artists to display rich diversity in Aboriginal art and cultures. Guests gathered to celebrate the launch of the 17th Statewide art market and exhibition at PICA before more than 8000 attended the opening weekend events. It was the first time the gallery has hosted the exhibition that sees 100 per cent of sales go towards supporting the artists and their communities.
