Embedded within the hard lines, sharp angles, and bold colours of legendary Australian artist Sydney Ball’s geometric, abstract, hard-edged paintings is 81 years of life experience as well as the knowledge and insight gained over a career spanning five decades, including two stints in New York in the 1960s where he became acquainted with the likes of Mark Rothko, William De Kooning, and Robert Motherwell.
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