Solo exhibition of recent work made in response to Orkney and Japan
Autumn 2025 Following Fay’s residency with the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney and her study trip to Japan in 2024, she will be presenting new…
Artists’ Sketchbooks
May 2025 Centre for Recent Drawing London Fay will be participating in a group exhibition curated by artist Lyle Perkins that will look at the…
Study trip to Japan
Autumn 2024 Fay visited Kyoto and Aomori for a month to learn about Shinto and Buddhism and to see the Neolithic Jomon archaeological sites. The…
Artist in Residency with the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney Islands
May 2024 Fay was artist in residence with the Pier Arts Centre in May 2024. She made a series of drawings around the words ‘liminal,…
Drawing workshops led by Fay 2023-24
Drawing Plants Royal Academy of Arts June 2024 Drawing Plants Royal Academy of Arts Saturday Sketch ClubNovember 2023 Drawing Plants at the Freud Museum July…
Drawing Workshops 2023-2024
Drawing workshops led by Fay
Covid 19 Legacy Imperial Health Committee
In 2023, Fay joined the Covid 19 Legacy Display Steering Committee for Imperial Health Charity to create lasting memorial displays at St Mary’s, Hammersmith and…
Drawing at the Freud Museum
Drawing workshop led by Fay to coincide with exhibition ‘Freud’s Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire at the Freud Museum’ inspired by Freud’s vast collection of antiquities.…
Lines of Empathy Book Launch and Artists’ Conversation
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art February 2023
‘Drawing Conversations 4: Engaging with sites of history and narrative’
On-line Conference September 2022 Keynote speakers Professor Anita Taylor, Professor Deanna Petherbridge and Layla Curtis. Fay presents a paper on drawing her childhood home. Main…
WPF Therapy
Exploring Parental Loss through making art On-line talk by Fay Ballard October 2022
Drawing Plants at Freud Museum
Workshop led by Fay Ballard July 2022
Mending the Psyche: Art as Reparation Exhibition Related Events
Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London Related events programme supported by Birkbeck and Wellcome Trust
‘Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists’ Symposium University of Leicester 2021
Organisers: Dr Imogen Wiltshire and Dr Fransiska Louwagie Keynote speaker: Dr Glen Sujo, author and curator of Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust…
‘What or Who is Your Travelling Companion?’ Seminar held in conjunction with exhibition March 2020
Art at Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge Free, book tickets on Eventbrite via Art at ARB: http://arbart.crassh.cam.ac.uk Science meets humanities in this seminar exploring the notion…
Dust Architects
www.dust-architects.com During Lockdown in 2020, Fay and three other artists, Nick Kaplony, Martha Orbach and Judy Goldhill have set up an artists’ online platform called…
Study Trip to Iran to study art and architecture 2019
Fay travelled around Iran studying Persian and Islamic art and architecture.
Study Trip to Fez with Art of Islamic Design 2018
Fay spent a week of intensive drawing learning to create intricate complex Islamic designs.
Breathe Exhibition Freud Museum London 2018
Series of evening talks exploring art as reparation by psychoanalyst Ron Britton, writer Julian Barnes and curator and psychoanalyst Dr Caroline Garland. In addition, discussion…
Phamacopoeia Londinensis 1618: A Florilegium of Plants
Royal College of Physicians London Exhibition and publication 2018 To mark the Centenary of the College, Fay and a group of artists were commissioned to…
Visiting artist Hammersmith Hospital NHS
Fay was visiting the Auchi Dialysis Unit at Hammersmith Hospital in 2017 and 2018 offering practical art workshops to patients at their bedsides, part of…
Field Trip to Transylvania 2016
Fay spent two weeks drawing and recording rare native wildflowers growing on the pastures near Viscri and Zalanpatak in Romania for the Transylvania Florilegium, commissioned…
Further talks, conferences and symposia
Brief Lives: Untimely Deaths, Art & Aftermath Seminar Presented by The Wildgoose Memorial Library in association with the Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London 2019…