Ingrid Pollard is well known for exploring heritage, the romanticism of English landscape, and England's hidden histories associated with Africa and the Caribbean. Her other passion is for cinema and the scale it offers, this influence leaks into her photographic work. She admits to having ‘taken a clandestine pleasure in cinema viewing and filmmaking’.
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Ingrid Pollard is also fascinated by the process of image-making, and is interested in ‘exploring ideas of chemistry, physics, and the basic constituents of photography’. Black and white photography uses silver, chlorine, bromide, wood pulp, water, salts, hypo, the ingredients originate from the ground. Landscape Trauma expresses how, through alchemy, the physical world around us is captured.
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In the past Ingrid has also documented the work of actors, dancers, writers and theatre companies.
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Education:
2006 Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. London South Bank Uni.
1995 MA. Photographic Studies. University of Derby
1988 BA hons Film & Video. London College of Printing (University of the Arts).
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 Residenceesidence 3 Parfitt Gallery Croydon College,
2009 Near & Far. National Glass Centre, Northumberland, UK*
Black Diaspora. Parliament Buildings, Bridgetown, Barbados*
A Field of Sheep. Michael Heseltine Gallery, OXO Visual Arts College, UK
Spectre of the Black Boy. Kingsway Gallery, Goldsmiths, London.
2006 Working Images. London South Bank University, London UK
2005-06 Landscape Trauma 2. Bath University, UK & Wall Space Gallery, London.
2004 Paper boats and Canvas. Project Row Houses, Texas USA
2003 Points of View. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex UK
2002 Near and Far Kendal Museum, Cumbria UK & touring*
2001 Selective Yield. Wysing Arts. Cambridge, UK
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Vous tes ici Foundation Clemént, Martinique, West Indies
2009 LandFall Museum of London, Docklands (curator-artist)*
Belonging in Britain Parliament Building, Bridgetown Barbados, WI*
2007-08 TradeWinds 2008 Museum of London Dockland. (curator)
2007 Crossing Waters. Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK*
Garden of Eden - The Garden in Art. Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany*
2006 Green Black & White Photography. Winchester Art Gallery, UK
TradeWinds - LandFall 2007. Project Row Houses, Texas USA (curator)
How to improve the world. Hayward Gallery, London*
Working Images. London South Bank University,
2005 Liminal Britain. Univ. of North Texas Art Gallery, Texas USA
Down the Garden Path. Queens Museum of Art, New York USA*
Tony Ray Jones Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2002 The Politics of Place. BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden & touring to Finland*
Travelogue. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK*
2001 Where are We ? Victoria & Albert Museum. London, UK
Traumatic Landscapes. The Gallery, Southwark Park London & Leeds
Monographs:
Ingrid PollardPostcards From Home. Chris Boot publishers. 2004.
Ingrid Pollard Monograph. Autograph-abp 1995
Ingrid Pollard Central South North. Lee Valley Park. 1994 (limited edition artists book)
Awards:
2007 Arts Council of England. Grants for the Arts
Leverhulme Individual Artists Award
2006 Arts Council of England. Grants for the Arts
2005 AHRC Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts.
2004 Nominated Royal Photographic Society. John Kobal First Book Award.
Commissions:
2006 London South Bank University, UK
Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA.
2003 Croydon Council, Croydon, UK
2002 Whitworth Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2001 Autograph: ABP
2000 Year of the Artist. Wysing Arts, Cambridge.
1998 National Trust
Screenings:
2009 Fathers Hands: Screening and artists talk. Leeds University Fine Art, October
Screening Hyde Park Picture House Leeds, October
Screening & Artist talk. Impressions Gallery. Bradford, October
Screening and talk, V&A London, October
Exhibition talk. Urban Edges. Goldsmiths. London October
‘Black Diaspora’ exhibition and conference. Bridgetown, Barbados February
Broadcasts:
2011 The Culture Show C4. March
2009 Good Morning Barbados. Bridgetown, Barbados. February
2005 The Culture Show. Channel 4. June
2004 Pacifica Radio Houston, Texas, USA. March
Performances:
2008 Scales. Tate Modern. London
2007 Flocking - Gary Stevens. Ashford Arts Festival, UK
2003 Pieces of People - Gary Steven. Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, UK
Residencies:
2010-11 Croydon College. Fine Art Dept, Croydon, UK
2008-09 Chenderit School, Visual Arts Centre, Oxon., UK
2004 Project Row Houses. Houston, Texas, USA
2000 Wysing Arts, Cambridge, UK
International Residences:
2004 Project Row House, April, Houston Fotofest, Texas, USA
1999 Photography Residency LightWorks, April, Syracuse, USA
Teaching:
2007-10 Associate Researcher CUCR at Goldsmiths, University of London.
2002-08 visiting Lecturer in Photography London South Bank University. BA Digital Photography part-time
1998-2002 Photography Lecturer 0.5, BA Hons Photographic Art, University of Wales, Newport
Talks and Presentations:
2010 Goldsmith Uni Sociology. Phd Students.
Richmond University short course - Books, Tutorials & assessment.
CUCR Urban Edge Crystal Palace walk and Review of Photographic work
Land2 Research group symposium. Leeds University
Cheltenham Uni. Artist Talk. & tutorials
2009 Screening and artists talk. Leeds University Fine Art:
Screening Hyde Park Picture House Leeds: Oct
Screening & Artist talk. Impressions Gallery Bradford
Exhibition artist symposium. Urban Edges. Goldsmiths
Screening and talk at the V&A London
2008 University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. Lecture and 5 day short course. Digital Narrative.
Art Teachers Conference. Tate Modern
CUCR Goldsmiths College. Urban Edge, Artist walk & talk
Land2 symposium. University of Northampton
University College Falmouth: lecture & tutorial.
CUCR Goldsmiths. Urban Encounters. Conference
Tate Britain 2008 Artist Encounter with the Collection
2007 Belonging in Britain Symposium. Falmouth University
Collections:
Arts Council England
Bath University
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
GNER (Great North Eastern Railway) UK
London South Bank University
National Museum of Film, Photography and Video. Bradford, Yorkshire UK.
National Trust UK.
National Collection - Victoria & Albert Museum. London UK.
Virgin West Coast Rail
Bibliographies - Publications Selected
Ingrid Pollard TradeWinds-LandFall 2008. Catelogue IMP Press 2008 London
Ingrid Pollard Fathers Hands Ed: C. Bressey & Claire Dyer. New Geographies Of Race & Racism. 2009 Hampshire Ashgate Press. pg 41-51
Ingrid Pollard Hidden In A Public Place 2008 London IMP Press
Sarah Neal & Julian Agyeman The New Countryside? 2006 Policy Press. 7-8, 111-113.
Hiroko Hagiwara Black :2, Japan 2002 pg 194 -208,
Deborah Willis Talk Black. Transforming the Crown. Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York 1998 USA: 1:23,28 6:63, 67.
Julian Ageyman & Phil Kinsman: Cultural Diversity. Leicester Uni. Press 1997
Journals Selected
Ingrid Pollard. Oceans Apart, Small Axe. Duke University USA 2009 no 28 42-50
Lisa Henry The View from Here. Fotofile. no 45 2004 6-9
Ingrid Pollard Portfolio, Fotofile no 46. 2004 34-39
Ingrid Pollard Surface, June 2005. Plymouth University 60-69
Liz Wells Portfolio, December 1997 No 26. pg 60
e-mail: ingy750@gmail.com
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