Mr Rob Ball

Rob joined the Photography Programme as a Senior Lecturer in 2009. Graduating with a Masters Degree from The University of the Arts London in 2005, Rob makes work about coastal communities. As a practice-based researcher Rob’s output is predominantly visual, frequently realised in the form of exhibition and publication. Dreamlands was published by Dewi Lewis in 2015, Coney Island in 2017 and Funland: A Journey Through the British Seaside in 2019.

Rob Ball is founder of Obsolete Studios, Director of The Burton Gallery and Director of The South East Archive of Seaside Photography.

• www.robball.co.uk
• www.beyondtheview.org.uk/the-burton-gallery
• www.seasphotography.org.uk

Selected Exhibitions

• Seaside: Photographed, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2019 / John Hansard Gallery 2020 / Grundy Blackpool 2021
• Lessons of the Hour with Isaac Julien, stills and tintypes, Memorial Art Gallery / Metro Pictures, New York, March 2019, now touring
• L'espace secret, Martigny, Switzerland, September 2018
• New Defence Project, Coalhouse Fort, Tilbury, Aug 2018
• Beside The Sea (Resort Studios Show), Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Aug 2017
• The Itinerant, Margate Festival, July 2017Tintype Studio, The Photographers' Gallery, London, July + Oct 2015
• Light Waves, Resort Studios, Margate, October 2015
• Art Car Boot Fair, Margate, August 2015
• Dreamland, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 2015
• Sea Bathers: Reflections and Responses, Tintype Studio, Margate, May 2015
• Capturing Light, Silverprint, LCC Moose on the Loose, May 2015
• Unremarkable Stories book, On Landscape Project #1, Guest Projects, London 2014
• Unremarkable Stories, Exchange, Illinois State University 2013
• Obsolete Studios, Turner Contemporary 2013
• The Collected, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury 2013
• Obsolete Studios, Format Festival, Derby 2013, 2015
• Obsolete Studios, Pie Factory, Margate 2012
• Paper Round#2 at The Royal Academy Summer Show 2012
• Unremarkable Stories (work in progress), Burton Gallery, Broadstairs 2012
• Ways of Looking Festival, Bradford 2011
• Margate PhotoFest, Margate 2010
• The Line of Lividity, Primo Alonso, London 2009
• Breathe, East Thames Gallery, Stratford, London 2008
• The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham 2007

Selected Publications / Awards / Presentations

• Dreamlands Presentation at Coney Island Museum, July 2016
• Dreamlands by Dewi Lewis, June 2015
• Dreamlands and SEAS Photography Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2015
• Shadows Symposium, Camberwell College of Art, 2015
• Beyond the View (New) Perspectives on Seaside Photography exhibition, conference and publication edited by Rob Ball and K.J. Shepherdson, 2014
• Dreamlands and SEAS Photography Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2015
• Unremarkable Stories by Rob Ball and K.J. Shepherdson, Burton Press 2012
• Unremarkable Stories at Prix du livre, Arles 2012
• Photograph of the Month at The National Portrait Gallery, London July 2009
• The Collector’s Guide – Humble Arts Foundation, March 2009
• EXIT Magazine, Machines, Autumn 2008
• Camera Austria – 98 2007
• Magenta Foundation – Emerging Photographers, Publication 2006
• Creative Review – Photography Annual, October 2006

Collections

• University of the Arts Collection archive
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• Unremarkable Stories and Dreamlands Books, V&A Museum