1971-1981

Paris Bienale Proposals, ICA Gallery, London

UK to USA, Design Centre London

Plain Square, range of tables, Design Centre, London

Classics of Modern Design, Camden Arts Centre, London

Best of British, Liberties, London

New Work, Prescote Gallery, Banbury

Designing Now, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds

1982

The Makers Eye, Crafts Council, London

Multiples, Warwick Arts Trust, London

Lights, Crafts Council, London

1983

Illuminations, Hopper Williams Gallery, Newcastle

1984

Designer Makers Today, Camden Arts Centre, London

1985

Five Furniture Pieces, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

A Collection in the Making, Crafts Council, London.

1986

British Design in Vienna, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna

7 From London, Salzburg

Prescote in Edinburgh

High Tech Low Tech No Tech, Aberystwyth, Wales

1987

Creative Links, Contemporary Applied Arts

1988

Lifestyle Europe, Tokyo, Japan

Furniture Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

A Light Touch, Cirencester Arts Centre

New Work, Prescote Gallery, Edinburgh

1989

Designer’s Saturday, London, October:

Vienna series Introduction of resolute paper lights including

Summer Oak, Stag Meredew Nottingham, UK, June

1990

Vienna  line exhibited at: Ital Interiors, Vancouver

Light Form, New York, Luminere, Chicago;

Inside, San Diego; Easter Accent, Boston; Luminere, Miami;

Current, Seattle; ASID Designers showhouse, Seattle;

Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1991

Table Lamp and Chair, Portland, OR

1992

IDSA Northwest Design Competition; annual exhibition, Vancouver-Portland-Seattle

Table Lamp and Chair, Portland, OR

Art of the Workplace, Bumbershoot Seattle

1996

Opening exhibition  CAA New Gallery London

Design of the Times 100 Years of the RCA, RCA London

1997

Modern Movments Ralph  Ball (Solo exhibition) Concord Gallery London

Christmas Show  CAA London

1998

The Banqueting Table  CAA London

Contemporary Decorative Arts Sotherby’s London

Fitzrovian Open London

Spirit of the Times  Bowes Museum Newcastle

Best of British Design  Haus Gallery London

Introspective Furniture Ralph Ball  (Solo Exhibition) Plateaux Gallery London

1999

Still Life  Contemporary Applied Arts London  3 funiture designers

Home Alone  Memphis Gallery, Milan Italy

The Glasgow Art Fair 1999   Glasgow

Zeitgiest  Ruthin Gallery  Wales

2000

Salon Du Moeble Paris France (Ligne Roset Stand)

Koln MobelMesse Germany (Ligne Roset Stand)

Milan International Furniture Fair  Italy

100% Design London

Design Against Crime, Design Museum London

2001

Contemporary Decorative Arts Sothebys London

Free Radicals Konsfack Stockholm Sweden

Home Sweet Home British Council Touring Exhibition

Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Oksnehallen, Copenhagen (2 May-10June),

Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki (16 Oct-16 Dec)

Light  British Council, Birmingham UK (March)

Design Against Crime, Milan and Barcelona, (April)

Light  British Council, Los Angeles USA (April-June)

100% Design London (September)

Ironic Iconics Mid Pennine Arts (3 Nov-22 Dec)

Lights The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh (1-24 Dec)

2002

Home Sweet Home British Council Touring Exhibition

Object Galleries Sydney (March-May)

Jam Factory Adelaide,(May-June) RMIT, Melbourne,(July-Aug)

QUT Brisbane (Sept-Oct)

Salon Du Moeble Paris France (Ligne Roset Stand)

Koln MobelMesse Germany (Ligne Roset Stand)

Milan International Furniture Fair  Italy (Ligne Roset Stand)

Free Radicals 2  University of Hertfordshire (April-May)

The Uncanny Room  curated Tessa Peters and Janice West Pitshanger Manor, London (July- August)

The Uncanny Room (October – December) Bowes Museum, County Durham

Inspirations Hill House Mackintosh Collection Scotland (April- October)

New Light  Nick Allen Gallery London (September – November)

Icons on Icons Hemple Hotel (16-21 Ocober)

Born Sloppy (Dec 2002-Feb 2003) Work to feature in Channel 4 programme

2003

Icons on Icons  Royal College of Art (Launch March)

Free Radicals 3 James Hockey Gallery Surrey Institute (21 July – 6 September)

Work to feature in Big Brother 4  (June)

London Open Book  Literary Centre (October)

2004

Brilliant  V&A Museum  Book and Exhibition

Archaeology of the Invisible Ball and Naylor Salone Satellite Milan International Furniture Fair  Italy

2005

le design, c’est le design Mouvements Modernes Paris France

Free Radicals 4 The Hub Sleaford UK

Rhetorical Design from the UK  Spring Gallery New York USA

Summer Exhibition Royal Academy

News from Nowhere: Visions of Utopia, William Morris Gallery, London.

2006

The Poetics of the Everyday, Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor, (2 person collaborative exhibition) Podium Gallery, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art

Sièges avec vue Chairs with a View. International Festival of Design Villa Noailles, Hyeres France

2007

Lifeztore Shanghai China

In Construction  featuring Ball and Naylor Spring Gallery New York USA

2008

Bring it to the Table Spring Gallery New York USA

Secret Life of the Office Arts and Business London (May)

Indeterminate Cases Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor (2 person collaborative exhibition) La Sala Vinçon Barcelona (Oct-Nov)

2009

Lost and Found Spring Gallery New York USA

Chair Poetics; envisioning anonymity  Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor  (2 person collaborative exhibition) England Gallery London

Thinking Objects book launch exhibition Aram Gallery London

Destroy Design travelling exhibition and Frac Nord-Pas de Calais

2010-11

Lycee Professionnel, La Peupleraie, Sallaumines

Destroy Design, MUDAC, Musee De Desin, Switzerland

Destroy Design, Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark

Destroy Design, Design Museum Gent, Belgium

120 Chairs by 120 Architects traveling exhibition.

AIT-ArchitekturSalon Cologne

BC Design Center / Copenhagen, Denmark

Vernissage St.Laurenskerk Rotterdam / The Netherlands

AIT-ArchitekturSalonHamburg

AIT ArchitekturSalon Munich

Interieur trade fair in Kortrijk, Belgium.

Orgatec trade fair in Cologne, Germany.

Designers Saturday Exhibition Langenthal, Switzerland

2012

Out of Storage/ Provisoire & Definitif, FRAC, Maastricht

2013

Philosophical Toys CSM London

Rugby Collection 2013 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum

Philosophical Toys Somerset House London Design Week

 

1982

Opening Exhibition, Aspects, London.

Lights, Crafts Council, London.

Opening Exhibition, Lighting Workshop, London.

1983

Illuminations, Hopper Williams, Newcastle.

Young Blood, Barbican, London.

December Collection, British Craft Centre, London.

1984

Makers 84, British Craft Centre, London.

Designer Makers Today, Camden Arts Centre, London.

Jugend Gestalet, Munich.

Black and White, British Craft Centre, London.

Designers Make It, Design Centre, London.

1985

Five Furniture Pieces, British Craft Centre, London.

Crafts America, Crafts Council, London.

1986

High Tech Low Tech No Tech, Aberystwyth, Wales.

Prescote in Edinburgh, Edinburgh.

1987

Creative Links, Contemporary Applied Arts, London.

Lifestyle Europe, Tokyo, Japan.

1988

Traveling Exhibition Showcase, Welsh Arts Council.

A Light Touch, Circencester Arts Centre.

New Work, Prescote Gallery, Edinburgh.

Furniture Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

2002

Table Lamp and Chair, Portland, OR, USA.

1992

IDSA Northwest Design Competition Annual Exhibit, Vancouver-Portland-Seattle.

Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York.

Table Lamp and Chair, Portland, OR, USA.

Art of the Workplace, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA, USA.

1996

Prescote Gallery, Edinburgh Festival.

2001

100% Design, London.

The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

2002

Inspirations, The National Trust of Scotland Hill House, Helensburgh.

2003

Maxine Naylor & Dawn Dupree, Contemporary Applied Arts, London.

Free Radicals 3, Surrey Institute, Farnham, UK.

Icons on Icons, Hemple Hotel, London.

2004

Archaeology of the Invisible Salone Satellite, IFF Milan, Italy.

2005

le design, c’est le design, Mouvements Modernes, Paris, France.

Free Radicals 4, The Hub, Sleaford, UK.

Rhetorical Design from the UK, Spring Gallery, New York, USA.

Royal Academy  Summer Exhibition,  London.

News from Nowhere: Visions of Utopia, William Morris Gallery, London.

New Work: Contemporary Applied Arts

2006

The Poetics of the Everyday,  Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball, Podium Gallery, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.

Sièges avec vue, Chairs with a View, International Festival of Design, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France.

inCONSTRUCTION, featuring Ball and Naylor Spring Gallery, New York, USA.

2007

Climate Cool by Design, British Council touring China.

2008

Bring It To The Table, Spring Gallery, New York, USA.

Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball Indeterminate Cases, Vincon, Barcelona.

2009

Chair Poetics Envisioning Anonymity Ball and Naylor, England Gallery, London Design Festival.

2010-2011

Lycee Professionnel, La Peupleraie, Sallaumines.

Destroy Design, MUDAC, Musee De Desin, Switzerland.

Destroy Design, Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark.

Destroy Design, Design Museum Gent, Belgium.

2012

Out of Storage/ Provisoire & Definitif, FRAC, Maastricht.