Completing her studies in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 1963, she started her career as an art teacher the next year. Ballot first taught at secondary schools in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Potchefstroom. From 1972 to 1981 she lectured in printmaking at what is now the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus).
During 1982-85 she lived and worked as free lance artist in Bonn (Germany) and returned to Potchefstroom in 1986 where she was Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Fine Arts until 1991 when she and her husband moved to Stellenbosch.
To date Ballot presented 24 solo exhibitions of which 5 took place in Germany and Belgium. In 2007 she featured as the focal artist of the regional exhibition at Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, where in the same year the University honoured her with a retrospective exhibition of her work spanning 40 years. Stellenbosch University did likewise the following year and published a comprehensive catalogue. In 2008 the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns awarded her its Medal of Honour for Visual Arts.
Titia Ballot’s graphic works are represented in various private and public collections, eg. Pretoria Art Museum, Iziko S.A. National Art Gallery (Cape Town), Sasol Art Collection (Johannesburg), Rupert Art Foundation (Stellenbosch) and a number of university collections in South Africa and abroad.
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