Chaosmos opened in central London at Shake Gallery in November 2023 until March 2024. Over a year in the making, Chaosmos was the largest exhibition in 5 years, showing a new body of work curated by Martin Mayorga.

The works in this show capture the essence of progress and continuity, exploring the rhythmic interplay of creation and renewal, and will include new paintings, cut-outs, charcoal drawings, wooden wall-based sculptures, and a light installation.

“Through the artist’s lens, we witness the journey of amelioration — a constant striving for improvement and the belief in our capacity to create a world that is more harmonious, balanced and enduring. The works selected by the curator invite us to cultivate the seeds of change together, so that the exhibition becomes a fertile ground for contemplation, dialogue and action; an invitation to reclaim, recover, restore and reinstate the sanctity of shared spaces — a call to nurture the collective consciousness for a brighter, more lasting tomorrow.”

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With thanks to Orchard Place, Northacre and NeuxPark

Beautiful Evidence is a celebration of the new body of work created over two years, including paintings, drawings and a new screen print released to coincide with the exhibition.

The colourful painting Ever Now continues with the same vibrant palette used in the artist’s recent painting and fashioncollaboration Respair with Eve and Max. This painting, a celebration of the restorative powers of life, forms the basis of a 9-layer colour screen print, in an edition of 25, created at one of London’s master print studios.

As a departure from this work, many of the monochromatic paintings, made using raw pigment and cut fabric, are abstracted dynamic free-flowing forms taken from closely observed source material. This melting pot of natural visual stimuli, encompassing many elements of life, are reduced and simplified into energetic rhythms, reflecting a period of regrowth and renewal.

For Artrinity interview by Jasper Ball, aged 11, please click here.

Opened in September 2018 (until January 2019) Remnants and Realisation was chosen as the first exhibition to be held in the newly developed 4,600 sq. ft gallery of the recently refurbished Smithson building (formerly known as the Economist building).

After two years in the making, the show celebrates an energetic new body of work including 12 pieces ranging from paintings (made with raw pigment, paper and charcoal), detailed hand-cut fabric and paper cut-outs to Ball’s first sculptures made of ply, steel and brass; some of which are burnt with an industrial flamethrower. 

In this exhibition, Ball rips, burns and erodes painstaking compositions that each take several months to produce. By incorporating for the first time these previously unprecedented levels of risk, the artist’s typically precise processes merge with newly expressive experiments forming powerful works caught on an unstable edge between release and restraint, accumulation and erasure.

To view a clip about the making of the work please click here and for the installation video click here.

To read an interview about the exhibition click here.

Encounter Contemporary is pleased to present One and Other, a dual exhibition of work by leading contemporary British artists: painter Adam Ball (1977) and sculptor Oliver Barratt (1962). In their abstract works, both artists meditate on the complex interactions between different forms, drawing attention to points of contact and the animated spaces between. Brought together for the first time, these distinct artistic practices generate a compelling dialogue on the art of relation.

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The Pharos Arts Foundation is pleased to present Absolute Zero touring to Eton College, Windsor. The exhibition includes signature minimal paper cut-outs, coloured fabric cut-outs and new raw pigment paintings. This recent body of work has been evolving since it was first exhibited at the Goss-Michael Foundation and the Bait Al Zubair Museum in 2015. The exhibition was first shown at The Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia from 28 September until 2 November 2016, before touring to the UK to be exhibited from 12th November until 12th December 2016.

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The Pharos Arts Foundation is pleased to present Absolute Zero, the first solo show from artist Adam Ball in Cyprus. The exhibition includes signature minimal paper cut-outs, coloured fabric cut-outs and new raw pigment paintings. This recent body of work has been evolving since it was first exhibited at the Goss-Michael Foundation and the Bait Al Zubair Museum in 2015. The exhibition will be on show from 28 September until 2 November 2016, before touring to the UK to be exhibited at Eton College, Windsor from 12th November until 12th December 2016.

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To celebrate the gallery’s 10 year anniversary Encounter put on the group exhibition Passages, showing the work of the gallery artists including Antony Cairns, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Gerry Judah, Whitney McVeigh and Neha Vedpathak.

Across the exhibition, there is a shared excitement for the possibilities by which linear gesture can be newly rendered. In the surging sculptural reliefs of Adam Ball, flowing jets of water carve the form of ‘Full of Time and Silence’ whilst fire chars its wooden edges. In this way, the artist extends his subversion of painterly gesture through the use of elemental forces.

The exhibition runs from 14.09.24 until 26.10.24.

March – April 2024

Shake Gallery

Group exhibition with artists Piers Alsop, Josh Rowell, Adam Ball, Qin Feng, Bram Winterford and Betty C Fan.

Encounter presented Fermata at Cromwell Place in December 2021. The musical term historically refers to a sustained pause within a creative performance, the lingering on a particular note or phrase. The exhibition brings together a group of international artists for whom performative processes of making are vital to their practices. Each piece selected for this exhibition can be seen as a punctuation point within an ongoing sequence of production and the decision to stop working in the midst of an evolving idea and suspend a moment of making that enables such dynamic objects to take form and resonate.

For this exhibition Adam Ball extends his subversion of painterly gesture through his exploration of elemental forces. Water carves the flowing forms of the sculptural reliefs whilst fire chars and burns their wooden edges.

Exhibited artists: Adam Ball, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Charles Hadcock, Gerry Judah, Whitney McVeigh, Alexis Teplin, Alexi Tsioris, Neha Vedpathak

What Remains brought together eleven institutionally acclaimed international artists for an exhibition that reflected on what remains and what is lost in a rapidly changing, and uneven world. Concerned with contemporary archeology and precarious temporalities, the artists negotiate the borders between imagination, memory and artistic reproduction from varied cultural standpoints. Navigating a fault line between image formation and deconstruction, accumulation and erasure, the displayed works inhabit an unstable space somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Often crossing boundaries between mediums, the artists engage these issues through complex and innovative material practices.

To read an interview that includes these works click here.

Exhibited artists: Gabriele Adomaityte, Adam Ball, Antony Cairns, Lawrence Calver, Gordon Earl Adams, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Charles Hadcock, Nour Jaouda, Gerry Judah, Whitney McVeigh, Neha Vedpathak

For this group exhibition at The Dallas Contemporary Museum, Adam Ball installed a large-scale DNA mural alongside a paper cut-out on white gold, which following the exhibition, was auctioned to raise a record $81,000 for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Other works, by amongst others Damien Hirst, Richard Phillips, Sarah Lucas, Julian Schnabel and Jim Lambie raised a total of over $2m. The exhibition was co-curated by Peter Doroshenko and Future Tense.

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