Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard (born 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana) 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 herself in rural landscapes, entitled "Pastoral Interludes". [Michael Woods, "Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring", SAGE, 2005, p282. ISBN 0761947612] The works challenge the way that English culture places black people in cities. [Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile, "Handbook of Cultural Geography", SAGE, 2003, p260. ISBN 076196925X]

From 2005-2007 she curated Tradewinds2007, an international residency exhibition project with an exhibition at Museum in Docklands London. In 2007 she received a Leverhulme Award. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article2671664.ece timesonline, October 17, 2007.] Retrieved July 6, 2008.]

She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery [http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-touring/past/fleeting-arcadias southbankcentre.co.uk] ] and the V & A, [ [http://www2.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1341_black_british_style/the_exhibition/related_collections_detail.php?id=4&sel
] ] and her works are held in the Arts Council Collection.

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External links

* [http://www.iniva.org/archive/person/207 Iniva website]
* [http://www.foto8.com/reviews/V3N1/pics_postcards.html Ingrid Pollard: Postcards Home]
* [http://www.tradewinds2007.org/ TradeWinds2007]