Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About 

Born 1965, South Yorkshire. Lives near Penzance, Cornwall 

Education 

1983 - 1986 Newport Art College 

2003 - 2005 MFA, Bath Spa University 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Shows 
2022 

Sarah Ball, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England. 

2021 

Stephen Friedman Gallery, Frieze New York, USA. 

2020  

Portraits, Ben Hunter Gallery, London, England. 

2019  

An Unlikely Likeness, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA. 

Bertillon, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA. 

Themself, Anima Mundi, St Ives, England. 

2017 

Bertillon. Anima-Mundi, St Ives, England. 

Kindred. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.  

2016 

The Garden Room, House of St Barnabas, Soho Square, London, England. 

2015 

Immigrants, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England. 

Immigrants, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, England. 

2014 

Accused: Part III. Conduit Gallery Dallas Texas, USA. 

Damaged Humans with bo.lee Gallery, London, England. 

2013 

Accused: Part II. Millennium Gallery, St Ives, England. 

2012           

Accused. Millennium Gallery, St Ives,  England. 

2011             

Sarah Ball & Meirion Ginsberg, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff, Wales (two-person). 

Group Shows 
2023 

The artist is a beast: Collection Edwin Oostmeijer, On The Inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

A Living Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, England 

2022 

Being In the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China 

The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 

I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China 

From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England 

Space for Imaginative Actions, a group show of the collection at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany   

2021 

Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York, USA. 

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA. 

2020                                                                        

I See You. Victoria Miro, London, England. 

Ode to a Nightingale. Anima Mundi, St Ives, England. 

Underglass 2. Half Gallery, New York, USA.                          

2019                                                           

Protected By Alarms. Anima Mundi, St Ives, England.                                                

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. 

Till We Have Faces (with Natalia Dias). Ten Gallery, Cardiff, Wales.             

2018 

As The Crow Flies. bo-lee, London, England.             

The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England. 

2017 

REALLY? Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA. 

2016 

‘From Silence’, Herrick Gallery, London. 

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.   

The Marmite Prize for Painting, Block 336, London & High Lanes Gallery, Ireland. 

The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London. 

TWO X TWO benefiting amfAR, Foundation for AIDS research, Dallas, Texas, USA.  

2014 

National Open Art, Somerset House, London. Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London. 

One’s Self As Another, RWA Bristol, England. 

2013 

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. 

Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England. 

Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition, Cardiff. 

2012 

National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England. 

Never, Never, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales. 

2011             

Hunting The Hunted, bo.lee Gallery, Bath.  

Wunderkammer, bo.lee Gallery, Bath. 

2010             

RWA 158th Autumn Exhibition Bristol.  

Here and Now, Newport Museum and Art Galleries, Wales. 

RWA 3rd Open Painting Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England. 

2009             

RWA 157th Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol. 

Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, England. 

2005 & 2008            

Purchase Prize, Wales Millennium Centre/Oriel Y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales. 

2007             

RWA Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England. 

Gallery Representation 

Stephen Friedman Gallery 

Public Collections 
British Museum, London, England 

Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA 

Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England 

Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway 

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 

Long Museum, Shanghai, China 

Pond Society, Shanghai, China 

Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA 

University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales 

Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China 

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