BOOKS
Flynn, Barbara. Emerge and Review: A Look into the UBS Australian Art Collection, UBS, Sydney, 2007.
Chanin, Eileen (ed). Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990.
Lindsay, Robert. The Seventies: Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, National Australia Bank, Melbourne, 1983.
Thomas, Laurie. The Most Noble Art of them All: The Selected Writings of Laurie Thomas, Queensland University Press, Brisbane, 1976.
Serle, Geoffrey. From Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirit in Australia 1788-1972, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1974
Thomas, Daniel. Outlines of Australian Art: The Joseph Brown Collection, Joseph Brown, Melbourne, 1973
Gleeson, James. Australian Painters: Modern 1931-1970, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971
Smith, Bernard. Australian Painting: 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971
Thomas, Laurie (ed). 200 Years of Australian Painting, Bay Books, Sydney, 1971
Bonython, Kym. Modern Australian Painting 1960/70, Rigby, Adelaide, 1970
Benko, Nancy. Art and Artists of South Australia, Lidums Publications, Adelaide, 1969
Horton, Mervyn (ed). Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969
Luck, Ross K. A Guide to Modern Australian Painting, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1969
McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Lansdowne Press, London, 1968
Luck, Ross K. The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Sydney Ball: Infinex II, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2012
Sydney Ball: Infinex, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2011
Sydney Ball: Structures 2, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2010
Sydney Ball: Structures 3 and the New York Stain Paintings, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2010
Sydney Ball Prints: Cantos + Stains, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2008
Loxley, Anne & Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 2007
Structures 2: Abstract Architecture, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2007
Sydney Ball: In Light of Colour 1965-2008, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2007
The Stain Paintings 1973-79, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2006
Sydney Ball, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1995
Sydney Ball: Vermeer’s Mirror, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1994
Sydney Ball, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1990
Crayford, Michael, Woodcut 1905-1989, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 1989
Lynn, Victoria. ‘Sydney Ball: a jubilant light’, Sydney Ball: Survey of Prints 1964-1988, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW, 1989
Lynn, Victoria. Introduction, 10th British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, England, 1988
Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1987
Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1986
Stringer, John & Brian Finemore. The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1986, pp 6-7
Sydney Ball, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1986
Holloway, Memory. The Australians, CDS Gallery, New York, USA, 1984
Worth, Margaret. Sydney Ball, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1984
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983
Bond, Tony. Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983
Palmer, Maudie. The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1983
The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1983
Wright, William. Visions in Disbelief: 4th Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1982, pp 18, 20
Burke, Janine. Sydney Ball: Survey Exhibition 1965-1975, Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW, 1975
McCaughey, Patrick. Ten Australians, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, 1974
McCaughey, Patrick. ‘Variety of the painterly in recent Australian art’, Melbourne University Magazine, 1974
Catalogue notes, The 6th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1968
Lynn, Elwyn. Catalogue introduction, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 1967
NEWSPAPER, JOURNALS & MAGAZINES
Loxley, Anne. ‘The Ongoingness of Abstraction’, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 98, May/June 2016
Taylor, Andrew. ‘Revisiting Sydney Ball’s rabble rousing days’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2013
Serisier, Gillian. ‘Sydney Ball': life in colour’, Artist Profile, no 21, 2012-2013, pp 56-62
McCaughey, Patrick. ‘“Enjoy your diversity”: the 60s revisited’, Meanjin, vol 71, no 3, spring 2012
McKenzie, Helen. ‘Contemporary conversation’, Australian Art Collector, no 61, July-September 2012, pp 156-159
Watson, Bronwyn. ‘Public works: Sydney Ball’, Australian, 17 September 2011
Gibson, Prue. ‘What now? Sydney Ball’, Australian Art Collector, no 56, April-June 2011, pp 114-115
Neylon, John. ‘A sharper drum. Sydney Ball: colour paintings’, Adelaide Review, January 2010
Art Almanac, March 2010 (cover image)
Murray Cree, Laura. ‘Sydney Ball: the colour paintings 1963-2007’, Art & Australia, vol 46, no 4, winter 2009
McDonald, John. ‘Edge of reality’, Sydney Morning Herald, 3-4 January 2009, p 16
Murray Cree, Laura. ‘Sydney Ball’, Art World, October-November 2008, pp 78-87
Temelovski, Mary. ‘The art of place’, Inside Out, March-April 2008
Reid, Michael. ‘The art oracle: Sydney Ball’, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2006
McDonald, John. ‘‘Quiet achievers have their day’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13-14 May 2006
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Sydney Ball: coming full circle’, Australian Art Collector, no 36, April-June 2006
Webb, Vivienne. Monument Magazine, June-July 2003
Findlay, Ian. ‘Sydney Ball at Robert Lindsay Gallery’, Asian Art News, vol 5 (1), January-February 1995
Sook Song, M. ‘The art world of Sydney Ball’, Quarterly Art Magazine, Sun Misool (South Korea), no 46, 1990, pp 18-28 (notes and illustrations)
Worth, Margaret. ‘Sydney Ball: descent from the totem’, Art & Australia, vol 24, no 1, spring 1986
Kuspit, Donald B. ‘Australians at CDS Gallery’, Art in America, March 1985, p 154
Australia in Manhattan’, Studio International, vol 197 (1007), 1984, pp 43-47
Murphy, Bernice. ‘Painting’, Australian Art Review, 1982
Borlase, Nancy. ‘A time of uncertainty: the visual arts in Sydney’, Australian Art Review, 1982
‘Surviving in the ‘70s’, Artscribe (London), June 1980
McCaughey, Patrick. ‘Sydney Balland the sixties’, Art & Australia, vol 7, no 4, autumn 1970
‘Letter from Australia’, Art International, vol XIII (7), September 1969, p 60
Judd, Donald. Art Magazine (New York), May 1964
Newman, Thomas. ‘New names this month’, Art News (New York), May 1964
FILM, TV & WEB
Clement, Tracey. ‘Preview: Sydney Ball’, Art Guide Australia, 1 December 2014
Kale, Neha. ‘Colourbursts by Sydney ball’, Broadsheet, 17 November 2014
Forrest, Nicholas. ‘The abstract colourist trend sweeping Australia’s art scene’, Blouin Artinfo, 20 November 2012, www.au.blouinartinfo.com
‘Sydney Ball’, Sunday Arts (program), ABC TV, producer Andrew Holland, Sydney, 2007
Snell, Ted. Sydney Ball profile (film), Waite Institute, WA, 1988
‘Ten Australians’ (documentary), ABC TV, Sydney 1975