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Projects
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Patrick Chapman ‘The Following Year’, May 2024
Fay’s drawing of a circle is featured on the cover of Patrick Chapman’s new volume of poetry ‘The Following Year’ published by Salmon Poetry, as…
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Artist in Residence 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,…
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Drawing workshops at Royal Academy of Arts and Freud Museum led by Fay, 2022-24
Although Fay isn’t currently drawing plants, she enjoys teaching and sharing her skills with others. Over a weekend in June 2024, Fay taught 22 students…
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Covid 19 Legacy Imperial Health Committee, 2023
In 2023, Fay joined the Covid 19 Legacy Display Steering Committee for Imperial Health Charity, tasked with creating lasting memorial displays about the pandemic and…
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Lines of Empathy Book Launch and Artists’ Conversation, February 2023
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Gallery London To coincide with the exhibition ‘Lines of Empathy’, Fay spoke at the launch of the exhibition publication and participated…
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‘Drawing Conversations 4: Engaging with sites of history and narrative’, September 2022
On-line conference, main co-convenor University of Huddersfield.Led by conveners, Professor Jill Journeaux and Dr Simon Woolham. This one-day symposium examined the interrelationships of drawing and…
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WPF Therapy‘Exploring Parental Loss through Making ‘Art’ WPF Therapy, October 2022
On-line talk by Fay Ballard WPF Therapy was established in 1969 as a charity to offer training in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy. Fay was invited…
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‘Mending the Psyche: Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill’ exhibition related events, Birkbeck University of London, May to July 2022
Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London
 Related events programme supported by Birkbeck and Wellcome Trust
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Art as Reparation On-line Talk Birkbeck University of London Arts Week, May 2021
Fay and Judy Goldhill were invited to give a presentation about their work made for ‘Breathe’ exhibition at the Freud Museum (2018) that addressed the…
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‘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…
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‘What or Who is Your Travelling Companion?’ Seminar held in conjunction with exhibition ‘Travelling Companions’ University of Cambridge, March 2020

Art at Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
. Science meets humanities in this seminar that explored the notion of ‘travelling companions’. Held in conjunction with the…
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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…
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Study Trip to Iran to study art and architecture, March 2019
In March 2019, Fay travelled to Iran to study Persian and Islamic art and architecture to further her interest in the arts and culture of…
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Study Trip to Fez with Art of Islamic Design, October 2018Study Trip to Fez with Art of Islamic Design 2018
In August 2018, after exhibiting her autobiographical drawings at the Freud Museum London, Fay took some time out of the studio to reflect on a…
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Breathe Exhibition Freud Museum London , May to July 2018
The exhibition ‘Breathe’ explored the work of two artists, Fay and Judy Goldhill, who lost parents at an early age and found art to be…
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Visiting artist Hammersmith Hospital NHS, 2017 and 2018
Fay was a visiting artist in the acute Auchi Dialysis Unit at Hammersmith Hospital in 2017 and 2018 offering practical art workshops to patients at…
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Field Trip to Transylvania, July 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…
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Further talks, conferences and symposia
In addition to those events mentioned above, Fay has given talks and taken part in conferences in London and around the UK. A brief selection…