Life as Drama

Lucy Ball

25 October - 2 November 2024

​Lucy Ball’s Life is Drama exhibition explored the theatricality of everyday life through bold compositions and expressive mark-making. Her work captured movement, emotion, and narrative, blending figuration with abstraction to create dynamic, layered scenes. Drawing inspiration from performance, storytelling, and human interaction, Ball’s paintings played with light, shadow, and dramatic contrasts to heighten the sense of tension and energy. Each piece reflected her fascination with the staged and the spontaneous, revealing the drama inherent in fleeting moments. Life is Drama invited viewers into a world where reality and imagination intertwined, celebrating the intensity and beauty of human experience.