Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' landscape 'Picnic overlooking the bluff'

'Picnic overlooking the bluff'

This brightly coloured wood block print

She spent her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture

The artist constructs a collage of vivid colours and texture

the image playfully subverts ideas of sainthood

Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' landscape 'Picnic overlooking the bluff'Sydney Ball is Australias foremost pioneer of abstract art, whose work is marked by an instinct for the cutting edge. Throughout his long and successful career, Ball explored many styles across his printmaking, painting and drawing including Hard edge Abstraction, Colour Field and Lyrical Abstraction. However, it was his undying love for colour and its ability to add music to a simple form that earned him his reputation as a master composer of graphic