Peter Eugene Ball (19 March 1943) is an English

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. He is best known for his religious work which can be seen in churches and cathedrals throughout Britain. He also produces

secular Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin ''saeculum'', "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. Anything that does not have an explicit reference to religion, either negativ ...

sculpture using predominantly

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and found objects.

Biography

Born on 19 March 1943 in

Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...

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-Av ...

, 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 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

Narrow statue on the wall of the south transept at Romsey Abbey - geograph

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, introduction by Richard Davey

External links

Official website - www.petereball.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ball, Peter Eugene 1943 births Living people Artists from Coventry English sculptors English male sculptors 20th-century British sculptors 21st-century English sculptors 21st-century male artists