Goldsmiths - University of London

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard is a Visual Artist whose visual practice is primarily photographic. With a basis in drawing, screen printing and ceramics, she studied Film and Video BA and MA in Photographic Studies. Ingrid's artistic practice employs media from chemical photography, alternative processes, digital, text, video, 3D installation and sculpture. Her practice questions popular cultural notions of class, identity and 'Britishness', examining common-sense through genres of documentary, landscape and portrait photography. Ingrid makes work that explores the relationship between race and ethnicity and public spaces. Her work is influenced by her interest in popular culture and recent research deals with models to establish commonalities across social and cultural differences.

Selected publications

• 'Surface' LandWater Visual Arts research group Plymouth University (2005)
• 'Postcard Home' monograph publisher Chris Boot and Autograph (2004).

Awards

• 2007 Leverhulme Trust Individual Award
• 2007 Arts Council Artists Award
• 2006 Arts Council Artists Award
• 2002 AHRC Research Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts

Current Research Project

1. TradeWinds-LandFall 2006-08
A curated International residency/exhibition project 'TradeWinds-LandFall 2007 between London and Houston. Artist's from the UK and USA took parts in residences and exhibitions in London and Houston during 2006. The two exhibitions will take place at the Museum in Docklands in 2007 with a substantial show in 2008.

2. Black Boy Production
Received a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship Award to undertake a practical research project 'the Spectre of the Black Boy project'. This research undertook a visual and social archaeology of the iconography of the black subject in pub signs. Exploring aspects of narrative, site and transient encounters. The finished project will use historic archives, new photographic and video installations and performance.