Her father was a geologist and Director at Science and Art Museum in Dublin.
Her younger sister Ethel Gresley Ball was also an artist.
She took sketching trips to France with fellow artist, Dorothy FitzGerald.
Ball was a friend of the Belgian painter, Marie Howet, having met her on Achill Island in 1929.
She was also a close friend of Mainie Jellett, and was a supporter of her when her abstract painting drew criticism and helped her in hanging some of her exhibitions.