Throughout her career, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored themes of Black feminism, race, and gender, with a focus on representation and history within the British landscape. In the 1980s, she was involved in feminist organizations in London and contributed photographs to the 1990 book Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, which showcased the work of contemporary Black and queer makers of color. The book emphasized self-sufficiency and freedoms defiantly explored at the margins of the British mainstream.
In this conversation, Pollard and scholar Hazel Carby reflect on Pollard’s work on display in After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, drawing connections to the concept of Quilombismo, one of the key Pan-Africanist movements featured in the exhibition.
This talk is supported by the Crossed Purposes Foundation Fund.
About the Speakers
Ingrid Pollard was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1953. She completed a BA in film and video at the London College of Printing, an MA in photographic studies at Derby University, and a PhD at the University of Westminster.
Pollard is a photographer, media artist, and researcher with a social practice centered on issues of representation and history within the British landscape, particularly focusing on race, gender, and the concept of other. Her work is often based on lengthy research into archives and environments, and her photo-based practice interrogates the hidden and explicit ideologies that underpin our popular visual cultures, aesthetic regimes, and art histories.
Pollard lives and works in Northumberland.
Photo by Emile Holba.
Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus at Yale University. She is a pioneer in the fields of black feminism and a leading scholar in black diasporic literature and culture. Her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019) won the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and was named a “Book of the Year” by the Times Literary Supplement. She is also the author of influential works such as Reconstructing Womanhood (1987) and Race Men (1998).
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