Ingrid Pollard
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Ingrid Pollard is a British
artist
and photographer. Her work uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness or racial difference. Pollard is associated with Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers
. She lives and works in London
.
In the 1980s Pollard produced a series of photographs of black people in rural landscapes, entitled Pastoral Interludes. The works challenge the way that English culture places black people in cities.
From 2005-2007 she curated Tradewinds2007, an international residency exhibition project with an exhibition at Museum in Docklands London.
She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery
and the V & A, and her works are held in the Arts Council Collection
.
Pollard is worked at a Chenderit secondary school arts collage in Northamptonshire as an artist in residence.
Ingrid Pollard she is a member of Mapping Spectral Traces: http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org/ research group.
United Kingdom
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and photographer. Her work uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness or racial difference. Pollard is associated with Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers
Association of Black Photographers
The Association of Black Photographers is a British based, international, non-profit-making, photographic arts agency...
. She lives and works in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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In the 1980s Pollard produced a series of photographs of black people in rural landscapes, entitled Pastoral Interludes. The works challenge the way that English culture places black people in cities.
From 2005-2007 she curated Tradewinds2007, an international residency exhibition project with an exhibition at Museum in Docklands London.
She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
and the V & A, and her works are held in the Arts Council Collection
Arts Council Collection
The Arts Council Collection is the largest loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world. With presently over 7500 works of art spanning more than sixty years, the Collection can be seen in exhibitions and displays at home and abroad, as well as through long-term loans to...
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Pollard is worked at a Chenderit secondary school arts collage in Northamptonshire as an artist in residence.
Ingrid Pollard she is a member of Mapping Spectral Traces: http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org/ research group.