Dr Ingrid Pollard MBE, comes from a community arts background and trained in print making, film and photography. Pollard is a multi-media artist, photographer, researcher and lecturer. She 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, the National Art Gallery of Barbados.
Recent exhibitions include: We have Met Before, National Gallery of Jamaica (2017); Valentine Days, Autograph ABP (2017); 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). Her first major survey exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning was shown at the MK Gallery in 2022.
In 2019 she was the recipient of Baltic Artist’s Award and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artists Award. She was granted the Freeland Foundation with MK Gallery for exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning which was nominated for the Turner Prize (2022). She is the current Hasselblad Laureate (2024).
