Sydney Ball; courtesy Sullivan + Strumpf and University of South Australia
Adelaide-born painter Sydney Ball has died aged 83.
Ball was born in 1933, and moved to New York in 1962 where he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied under Theodoros Stamos. It was a time when he was exposed to the rise of the Abstract Expressionist movement and rubbed shoulders with Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning.