when: 22 May 2026 - 17 July 2026 | | cost: Free | address: 102/8 Quay St Haymarket NSW 2000 Australia | website: http://passagegallery.com/jack-ball
published: 26 Jun 2026, 5 min read
Now open at Passage is Jack Ball's latest solo exhibition, MYSTERY SOLVED, on view 24/7 until 17 July 2026.
Ball works with photography, collage and casting to create large-scale sculptural installations that explore flexi and fluid materiality. Their work draws connections between geological, socio-historical and bodily archives. Over the past few years, Ball has engaged with community archives to explore trans histories through abstraction and sensory connections.
In MYSTERY SOLVED, photography, sculpture and video come together in a layered installation of shifting sightlines, material references and collaged imagery. Across the space, image formations reference airport runways, rockfall nets, archways, vents and gates, architectural and infrastructural forms that hold back, constrain and enforce order. Ball reworks these forms into a bodily, porous and chaotic weave.
Imagery of fish scales, tarps, tide lines and bore-stained metal is collaged throughout the installation. Colour is heightened, acidic and synthetic, while repetition, layering and movement mirror the conditions of media circulation itself, where images are continually reframed and recontextualised.
Developed for Passage's 24/7 glass frontage, MYSTERY SOLVED turns to the conditions of its own display. The glass operates simultaneously as frame and barrier, shaping what can be seen while holding something back.
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Now open at Passage is Jack Ball's latest solo exhibition, MYSTERY SOLVED, on view 24/7 until 17 July 2026.
Ball works with photography, collage and casting to create large-scale sculptural installations that explore flexi and fluid materiality. Their work draws connections between geological, socio-historical and bodily archives. Over the past few years, Ball has engaged with community archives to explore trans histories through abstraction and sensory connections.
In MYSTERY SOLVED, photography, sculpture and video come together in a layered installation of shifting sightlines, material references and collaged imagery. Across the space, image formations reference airport runways, rockfall nets, archways, vents and gates, architectural and infrastructural forms that hold back, constrain and enforce order. Ball reworks these forms into a bodily, porous and chaotic weave.
Imagery of fish scales, tarps, tide lines and bore-stained metal is collaged throughout the installation. Colour is heightened, acidic and synthetic, while repetition, layering and movement mirror the conditions of media circulation itself, where images are continually reframed and recontextualised.
Developed for Passage's 24/7 glass frontage, MYSTERY SOLVED turns to the conditions of its own display. The glass operates simultaneously as frame and barrier, shaping what can be seen while holding something back.
Go see Jack Ball 'MYSTERY SOLVED' at Passage Gallery 2026.
Jack Ball 'MYSTERY SOLVED' at Passage Gallery 2026 is on 22 May 2026 - 17 July 2026. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Haymarket. Call 0434939675 for details. Visit their website at http://passagegallery.com/jack-ball.
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