Fay Ballard
Education
2006 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design
2003 Foundation Studies Art & Design Diploma, City Literary Institute
2000 Diploma Botanical Painting, Chelsea Physic Garden
1979 BA History of Art, University of Sussex
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo
2022 Mending the Pysche Peltz Gallery Birkbeck University of London
2021 In Circles Handel Street Projects London
2020-1 Travelling Companions Art ARB, University of Cambridge
2018 Breathe Freud Museum London
2017 Art in Focus: Fay Ballard Charing Cross Hospital London
2015 Alligators in the Hall Centre for Recent Drawing London
2015 Alligators in the Hall Caroline Wiseman Aldeburgh
2015 House Clearance & Model Gallery Leeds
2014 House Clearance Eleven Spitalfields Gallery London
Group
2023 Summer Show Handel Street Projects
2023 Lines of Empathy Close Ltd Somerset
2023 Exploring a Royal vision Garrison Chapel London
2022 Lines of Empathy Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London
2021 Highgrove Florilegium Garrison Chapel London
2021 Public Intimacy Confer Karnac Centre London
2018 Transylvania Florilegium, National Gallery, Bucharest
Romania & Romanian Cultural Institute London
2018 Pharmacopoeia Royal College of Physicians London
2018 Discerning Eye (selected by Frances Hedges, art director, Harper’s Bazaar)
2017 Family Reunion Pi Artworks London
2017 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts
2015 Grand Magasin Deux French Riviera Gallery London
2011 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts
2010 Discerning Eye (selected by Dr Judy Collins, curator/art historian)
Fay Ballard Summerleaze Gallery Salisbury
Dr Sherwood Collection Teylers Museum, Netherlands
Dr Sherwood Collection Marucube Gallery Tokyo
Watercolour Biennale Museo della Carta e della Filigrana Italy
2009 The Highgrove Florilegium Garden Museum London
Dr Sherwood Collection Nijo-jo Castle Kyoto
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2008 The Highgrove Florilegium Huntington Art Collections USA
The Highgrove Florilegium School Interior Design New York
2007 Hot – Recent Graduates Collyer Bristow Gallery London
2006 Dr Sherwood Collection S.Togo Memorial Sompo Museum of Art Tokyo
Special Projects
2018 Pharmacopoeia drawing project: Royal College of Physicians
2018 Study Trip: Fez, Morocco, Art of Islamic Pattern: drawing geometric & biomorphic design
2017 and 18 Visiting Artist Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial Health Charity (NHS)
2017 Field Trip/Residency: The Prince’s Foundation to draw rare plants for Transylvania Florilegium
2008 Field Trip/Residency: The Prince’s Foundation to draw plants for Highgrove Florilegium
Teaching & Talks
Royal Academy of Arts, Freud Museum, Royal College of Art MA Cross Currents, Camberwell Art School MA Printmaking, Wimbledon Art School MA Painting Research ‘Punk Suburbia’, British Library, Birkbeck College London, Cambridge, Huddersfield, Leicester, Leeds, King’s College London, & Anglia Ruskin Universities, The Drawing Room Research Forum London.
Elected Member, Royal Watercolour Society 2007 (retired 2019)
Selected Recent Conferences
‘Drawings Conversations 4: Engaging with sites of history and narrative’ University of Huddersfield 2022. ‘Art as Reparation’ Birkbeck College University of London 2022. ‘What is your travelling Companion?’ University of Cambridge 2021. ‘The Reparative Act’ Freud Museum 2016.
Award
Drawing Center New York Recognition Award 2015
Collections
Imperial Health NHS Charity Trust, New Hall Art Collection Cambridge; The Late HM The Queen; HM King Charles III; The Prince’s Foundation; Winsor & Newton; Royal Watercolour Society; Royal College of Physicians, Dr Shirley Sherwood Collection
Recent Publications
Le Novelliste Nov 2023; Drawing As Placemaking co-edited by Professor Jill Journeax and Dr Simon Woolham (Bloomsbury 2025) Lines of Empathy by Giulia Ricci; Breathe (Freud Museum); Madam and Eve by Liz Rideal and Kathleen Soriano, Laurence King Publishing; & Model Gallery: five years (Leeds Beckett University); Pharmacopoeia Royal College of Physicians; Transylvania Florilegium (2 volumes, Addison Pub.); Highgrove Florilegium (2 volumes, Addison Pub.); House Clearance Eleven Spitalfields Gallery London; Botanical Paintings from Shirley Sherwood Collection (Ashmolean Museum Oxford)
Committee Membership
1998-02 Camden Arts Centre Trustee
2004 - Victoria Miro Educational Trust
2018 - Imperial Health Charity Arts Committee (NHS)
2021 Covid Legacy Arts Committee, Imperial Health Charity (NHS)