Marcello Spinelli wrote (British Art Show 5): "Ford's creatures are faithful representations of fantasy and, at times, a nightmarish imagination.

With their bitter-sweet, menacing and endearing qualities, her stuffed animals and dolls appeal to childhood memories and inhabit a world we immediately recognize as somewhat familiar.

[citation needed] She has exhibited widely, including: Solo, 2012 Days of Judgement, Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, and The New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK, 2011 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2007, Rag and Bone, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2006, Armour Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2004, Wreckers, Beaconsfield, London, 2003, Ford Headthinkers, Houldsworth Gallery, Cork Street.

2002, The Great Indoors, Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain, 1998, Camden Arts Centre, London (with Jacqui Poncelet) Group, 2011, with Magdalena Abakanowicz, at the Industriemuseum Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Bocholt, Germany, 2005, Venice Biennale for Wales, 2004, Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, USA, with Matt Franks, Roger Hiorns, James Ireland, Jim Lambie, and Mike Nelson.

[citation needed] Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor Andrew Sabin,[4] and their three children.