Peter Eugene Ball (19 March 1943) is an English
sculptor
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. He is best known for his religious work which can be seen in churches and cathedrals throughout Britain. He also produces
secular
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sculpture using predominantly
driftwood
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and found objects.
Biography
Born on 19 March 1943 in
Coventry
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,
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...
, Peter Eugene Ball attended Coventry College of Art from 1957 until 1962 where he obtained the
National Diploma of Design. By 1963 his sculptures were already included in mixed exhibitions in the
Midlands
The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Ind ...
and at the Marjorie Parr Gallery, London, where he had his first one-man exhibition in 1967. However, it wasn't until 1968 that making sculpture became his full-time occupation, and since that time he has devoted himself to producing both religious work for churches and cathedrals throughout the country and exhibiting and selling his secular work in galleries across Europe and in America.
Religious commissions
Books
*''A Kind of Madness (The Sculptures of Peter Eugene Ball)'',
Inga Gilbert
*''Icons of The Invisible God (Selected Sculptures of Peter Eugene Ball)'',
foreword by Pamela Tudor-Craig
Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA (née Wynn-Reeves; 26 June 1928 – 5 December 2017) was a British medieval art historian.
Personal life
Pamela Wynn-Reeves was born on 26 June 1928 in Golders Green, London. Her parents were Herbert ...
, introduction by Richard Davey
External links
Official website - www.petereball.com
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1943 births
Living people
Artists from Coventry
English sculptors
English male sculptors
20th-century British sculptors
21st-century English sculptors
21st-century male artists