Exhibitions


2022 7 June to 1 September
Dartmoor Dreams - Early Work
Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown.

2022 16 July to 23 August
Dartmoor Dreams - New Work
MAKE Southwest (formerly the Devon Guild of Craftsmen), Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey.

Through photographs and words, Carol Ballenger, John Powls and Arts Live colleagues celebrate 25 years of Dartmoor-inspired projects. The exhibition includes work from Dartmoor Dreams to their latest interpretations of the moor.

2019 October - 2020 January
Science Photographer of the Year
Tree of Life photograph shown at the Science Museum, London

2019 October - November
Branching Out - included images and video from Defining Treescapes
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon.

2018
Kaze, Geumgang Nature Art Binalle, South Korea.

2017
Route 66, Open Road for Promiseland, Photographers Gallery, London.
With associated book launch.

2016
Joint with John Powls: Journeys, St Ives Festival, St Ives Arts Club, St Ives.

2015
Arts Live: Journeys, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey.

2013
Solo: Working with Light, High Cross House, Dartington Hall.

2012
Solo: The Dartington Project - One Endless Garden, Studio 5 at Space, Dartington Hall.

2011
Solo: Work from the Dartington Project, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey.
Solo: Devon Guild of Craftsmen - showcase exhibition, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey.
Solo: Sea Songs, The Cider Press Centre, Dartington.

2010
Group: Devon Guild Make - Contemporary Crafts for Christmas, Bovey Tracey.
Group: Digital 2010 : Planet Earth, New York Hall of Science, New York.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: Totnes and Dartington Open Studios, Dartington.
Joint with John Powls: Ways With Words, Dartington.
Group: Devon Guild summer exhibition, Bovey Tracey.

2009
Group: Devon Guild annual Christmas exhibition Wrapped Up, Bovey Tracey.
Group: Delamore Christmas Fair, Cornwood.
Joint talk/performance with John Powls: Devon Guild, Bovey Tracey.
Solo: Devon Guild, Bovey Tracey.
Group: Bowie Gallery, Eye Contact, Totnes.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: Totnes and Dartington Open Studios, Dartington.
Group: The Great Create Festival of the Arts, Greenway.
Group: Art @ Delamore, Cornwood.
Solo: Ashide - A Second Nature, Devon Guild, Bovey Tracey.

2008
Solo: Ashide - A Second Nature, Dartington Hall.
Group: Royal Photographic Society, Plymouth University.
Group: Delamore House, Cornwood.
Group: Devon Guild Summer Exhibition.

2007
Solo: Ashide - A Second Nature, RD&E Hospital, Exeter.
Group: Delamore House, Cornwood.
Group: Devon Guild Summer Exhibition, Bovey Tracey.
Group: Northeast by Southwest, Artworks Gallery, Newcastle.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: Devon Artworks Open Studios, Dartington.
Group: Doddiscombsleigh Art Show.
Group: Devon Guild, Gifted, Christmas Exhibition, Bovey Tracey.

2006
Solo: Ashide - A Second Nature, Embassy of Japan, London.
Group: Delamore House, Cornwood.
Group: Devon Guild Summer Exhibition, Bovey Tracey.
Group: Royal Photographic Society, Plymouth University.
Group: Artsculture, for National Trust at Greenway.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: Nine Days of Art Open Studios, Dartington.
Group: Eat Me, Cider Press Centre, Dartington.
Group: Devon Guild Christmas Exhibition, Bovey Tracey.

2005
Group: Delamore House, Cornwood.
Solo: Devon Guild, Cafe Gallery, Bovey Tracey.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: Nine Days of Art Open Studios, Dartington.
Group: Doddiscombsleigh Arts Show.
Group: Harbour House, Kingsbridge.
Group: Bridport Arts Centre.

2004
Group: Delamore House, Cornwood.
Group: Devon Guild Summer Exhibition, Bovey Tracey.

2003
Group: Dartmoor Trust Exhibition, Delamore House, Cornwood.
Solo: Stone Universe, Otterton Mill, Budleigh Salterton.
Group: Royal Photographic Society 150th Anniversary Exhibition.

2002
Joint with John Powls: Stone Universe and The Red Comet exhibitions, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.
Joint with Graham Hodgson: "Nine Days of Art", Follaton House, Totnes.

2001
Solo: Stone Universe exhibition and book launch, High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown.
Solo: Dartmoor panoramas from Stone Universe, RD&E Hospital, Exeter.
Solo: Stone Universe, High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown.

2000
Solo: Sea Songs, Cranks Restaurant, The Cider Press Centre, Dartington.
Solo: Stone Universe Part I promoted by Arts Live, High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown.

1999
Solo: Sea Songs, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
Group: The Royal Photographic Society, The Barbican Centre, London.

1998
Joint with John Powls: Sea Songs and Twenty Eight Phases of the Moon, promoted by Arts Live, St. Martin's Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.
Group: South Hams Arts Forum, Harbour House, Kingsbridge.
Group: Dartmoor Photography Project, High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown.

1997
Group: The Eye Of The Beholder promoted by Arts Live, Aerial Centre, Totnes.
Group: Seven Photographers and a Poet, promoted by Arts Live, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.
Group: The Royal Photographic Society, Bath.
Solo: Inside Dartmoor, High Moorland Visitor Centre (Dartmoor National Park), Princetown.
Solo: Bond Pierce Gallery, Plymouth.

1996
Group: Dartington Summer Exhibition.
Solo: Dartmoor Dreams, Bond Pearce Gallery, Plymouth.
Solo: Trilogy, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.

1995
Solo: Earth Signs, Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Taunton.
Solo: Tunnel Series and New Work, Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Taunton.
Group: Dartington Summer Exhibition.
Solo: Dartmoor Dreams, Torr Abbey, Torquay.
Solo: Dartmoor - Sound and Vision, Visitor Centre, Dartmoor National Park, (To coincide with book launch of Dartmoor Dreams).

1994
Joint exhibition with Graham Hodgson: Back to Nature, Sterts Arts Centre, Cornwall.
Group: Dartington Summer Exhibition.
Group: Summer Open Exhibition, Plymouth Arts Centre.

1993
Group: The Royal Photographic Society, Bath.
Solo: Dartmoor Dreams, The Visitor Centre, Princetown, (for Dartmoor National Park).
Solo: Earth Signs, Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Exeter.
Group: Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Exeter.

1992
Solo: Saltram House, Plymouth, (in celebration of The National Trust's Landscape Year).
Group: Sterts Arts Centre, Cornwall.