the BallPark is the framework for the lives and times of hybrid artist Di Ball.

 Life imitates art so comprehensively in the work of new media and installation artist Di Ball that it’s increasingly hard to distinguish between the two. Ball has turned a full circle (or completed a revolution) since working as an architect designing theme parks a couple of decades ago. She now operates as a consortium of artists (each of them herself) exhibiting and performing under the BallPark  logo, which she describes as representing “the theme park that is my life.” Commuting between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, she receives regular inspiration by driving past Dream World and Movie World.

Like a disco ball faceted with multiple mirrors, she reflects aspects of popular culture using an ever-growing series of individual personas, each with a name derived from her own. There’s Krystal Ball  the cyber clairvoyant, Fleur Ball  the cuntry (sic) & western singer, Meet Ball the online introduction agency madam, and most recently Glo (Gloria) Ball the international traveller and celebrity hunter.

She has a beady eye for the most exquisitely naff aspects of modern life and an ability to find the user-friendly aspects of French feminist theory. Ball is part Julia Kristeva [Julia Kristeva], part Edna Everage . She revels in a promiscuous familiarity with lowbrow aspects of the mass media, from new age women’s magazines to television body makeovers.