Martin Ball is a New Zealander Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1952. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland City have featured Martin Ball's work in the past.Martin Ball's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 108 USD to 7,006 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,006 USD for Carey’s Bay 2000 V, sold at ART+OBJECT in 2018. Martin Ball has been featured in articles for New Zealand Herald and ArtDaily. The most recent article is T.J. McNamara: Grace, elegance and strength written for New Zealand Herald in June 2015.
At a time when there are more than 50 exhibitions in the Photography Festival, you can also find examples of artwork that reacts to images made with a camera.
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..Ball is known for his realist paintings and drawings and although motorcycles are a subject he has touched upon in the past, he is best known for his large-scale portraits...
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