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Mr Rob Ball

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School of Creative Arts & Industries

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

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.

Research Projects

  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Ms Fran Flowers. Supervisor(s): Mr Rob Ball, Dr Kenneth Fox. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Zak Waters. Supervisor(s): Mr Rob Ball, Professor Shane Blackman. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Publications / Awards / Presentations

Collections

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