Laura Ball: The sun was glad to see my shadow

For her 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, Ball leans away from the fantastical amalgamated creatures she has become known for, instead focusing on imagined landscapes and otherworldly environments. With landscapes at the forefront, Ball is able to draw the viewer’s attention to spatial depth, mark-making, brush strokes, and color as she renders vistas that present time and space in a filmic manner.

 

With the planet’s wild environments dwindling as overdevelopment hurls forward, Laura Ball has shifted to depict sites within the landscape of the collective unconscious. This mysterious space, where the cosmic and earthly ecstatically coalesce, is where Ball focuses her attention in The sun was glad to see my shadow. Here, she traverses a new realm, meanders in the untamed in-between, thoughtfully capturing subconscious landscapes imbued with Animism, energy, and spirit.