Carol Ballenger | Devon
Carol Ballenger;s photographs are in collections in this country and abroad and have been exhibited widely, including for the National Trust, The Dartmoor National Park Authority, The Royal Photographic Society and the Edinburgh Festival. London exhibitions include St. Martin-In-The-Field and The Barbican Galleries. Ashide, A Second Nature, an exhibition of photographs of Japanese gardens in the UK with Haiku by John Powls was shown at the Embassy of Japan in 2006 and was named museum exhibition of the week by the Times newspaper. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society she is a founder member of Arts Live who promote exhibitions, performances and workshops. With a background in music Carol enjoys working in collaboration, often as a violinist in performances. Her work has always reflected environmental issues and she sees her photographs as meditations on the landscape. The Tree of Life, was shown at the Science Museum, London; The New York Hall of Science and used in a report at the 2016 Paris Summit on Climate Change. Kaze, a video documenting a coastal storm, was shown at the 2018 South Korea Biennale. She has used a range of processes and cameras from darkroom to digital, and feels that skills learned in the darkroom have informed her digital work. Books include Dartmoor Dreams; Stone Universe; Dartington Hall, One Endless Garden; Route 66; Ashide; The Red Comet and Working with Light. For more information please go to: artslive.org.uk
