Dr Ingrid Pollard, MBE comes from a community arts background and trained in printmaking, film and photography. Pollard is a multi-media artist, photographer, researcher and lecturer. Pollard has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens-based media. Through her practice, Pollard uncovers layered histories of representation, making the invisible visible, revealing ‘what we always knew was there’,
Pollard has exhibited at Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum & the Photographers Gallery, London, NGBK, Berlin, the Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York, and the National Art Gallery of Barbados.
Recent exhibitions; We Have Met Before, (2017), National Gallery of Jamaica, Valentine Days, (2017)
Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, London, Deep Down Body Thirst, Glasgow International, (2018), No Cover Up, Glasgow Women’s Library (2021), Seventeen of Sixty-Eight, BALTIC, Newcastle (2019); and Drops of Blood Thelma Hulbert gallery. (2022).
In 2019, she received the Baltic Artist’s Award and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artists Award. She was also granted the Freeland Foundation with MK Gallery for her exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning, which was nominated for the Turner Prize (2022). She is the current Hasselblad Laureat (2024).
Reading School of Art 