Pollard receives 2024 Hasselblad Award
Award Ceremony 11th October 2024

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The Hasselblad Award is an international photography prize – considered the most prestigious in the world. It was awarded for the first time in 1980 and has been presented annually since then, with the exception of 1983 and 2021.  It is granted to “a photographer recognized for major achievements”, including pioneering achievements in photographic art, having had a decisive impact on younger generations of photographers, or who has realised several internationally significant photographic projects and continues to develop artistically.
 
The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on 11th of October 2024, in conjunction with an exhibition of Ingrid Pollard’s work at the Hasselblad Centre, and a new publication about the artist. Ingrid Pollard’s visit to Gothenburg will also include a seminar in collaboration with the County Administrative Board, and a concert by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden’s national orchestra. 
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Video interview of Pollard reflecting on her work and the award can be found here  ​

 Symposium focused on Pollard, May 6th 2022
'Carbon Slowly Turning: Movement, Energy, Landscape'
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On the occasion of the Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning exhibition, MK Gallery and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art collaborated on their third symposium. The symposium took place Friday 6 May, 10.00–19.00 in the Sky Room of MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. The event was also live-streamed to a digital audience.
The speakers were: Richard Hylton and Evan Ifekoya, chaired by Gilane Tawadros; Liz Wells and Ella S. Mills, chaired by Cora Gilroy-Ware; and Ajamu X and Sheena Calvert. The day ended with an in conversation between Pollard and Jackie Kay - who have known each other since the 1980s - and Kay's poetry reading.
A recording of the day will be made available at a later date.
This symposium was imagined as a conversation with the exhibition, using it as a point of departure. At times, Pollard’s work was directly referenced and, at others, ideas and strands of dialogue emerged and escaped from it. MK and PMC were interested in thinking about movement, and the connections between the histories of art, energy, body cultures, landscape, geology and physiological aesthetics, both historically and in the present. The movement of the body in space and through time has preoccupied Pollard across her career, whether she is working with photography, kinetic sculpture or ceramics. Bodies, both real and metaphorical, are perpetually set in motion – twisting, turning, bowing, walking, dancing, sweating, punching – engaging with ideas and questions about ecology, temporality, race and gender as they move across the landscape.

Pollard nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize!

Ingrid Pollard has been shortlisted for the 2022 Turner Prize for her solo exhibition 'Carbon Slowly Turning' at MK Gallery, curated by Gilane Tawadros. The Turner exhibition will be held at Tate Liverpool from 20th October 2022 - 19 March 2023. The jury for this year's Turner Prize are Christine Eyene, Anthony Spira, Robert Leckie and Irene Aristizábal. 

Click here for more information on Tate's website about this year's nominees, the jury, and the 2022 Turner Prize.








​Portraits of the Turner nominees from an article in The Art Newspaper

Pollard in The Observer, 20th March 2022
Click here to read the interview

'Carbon Slowly Turning' - OPENS 12 March
Pollard's major solo show, curated by Gilane Tawadros, with Pollard 
​​MK Gallery, 12 March – 29 May, 2022

Tate Exhibition now on! 'Life Between Islands: Caribbean British Art 1950s - Now'
1 Dec 2021 - 3 April 2022

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Pollard features with over 40 artists, including Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, Horace Ové, Sonia Boyce and Claudette Johnson in this Tate Britain landmark group exhibition celebrating 70 years of Caribbean-British art. 

​'This exhibition explores the work of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other British artists whose work has been influenced and inspired by Caribbean themes and heritage. Spanning visionary paintings to documentary photography, fashion, film and sculpture, Life Between Islands traces the extraordinary breadth and impact of Caribbean British art, in one setting. This exhibition celebrates how people from the Caribbean have forged new communities and identities in post-war Britain – and in doing so have transformed what British culture and society looks like today.' – Tate

Book tickets to see the show here!

For more information including an exhibition guide and video see the Tate website here.

Major solo exhibition and catalogue at MK Gallery: 'Carbon Slowly Turning'
​12 March – 29 May

'Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning' is the first major survey of Pollard’s career showing highlights of work from the past 40 years as well as debuting exciting new work.

There is a major catalogue to accompany the exhibition with contributions from Fay Blanchard, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul Gilroy, Mason Lever-Yap, Cheryl Finley, Anthony Spira and Gilane Tawadros. Pre-order your copy here.

'Gilane Tawadros, co-curator of the exhibition, said: “Ingrid Pollard’s practice has long been focused on the human body, astro-physics and geology, and in particular geology in the formation of the stars and planets. The title of the exhibition – Carbon Slowly Turning – invites us to reflect on geological time in relation to human time. On the one hand the millennia in which carbon, rock and other natural materials are made, and on the other the brevity of human existence by comparison and the affecting nature of geology on the human form. A number of Pollard’s works reflect on the cyclical nature of history and human experience, where everything is subject to change, sometimes over hundreds or thousands of years, at other times in the blink of an eye.”' – MK Gallery

Winner of the Freelands Award 2020. Exhibition supported by Freelands Foundation. 
Supported by a Publications Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Association for Art History.

New commission and exhibition in Devon
6 August - 22 October 2022

Curated by talking on corners this commission sees Pollard create a new series of work in response to the histories of Devon and the South West. The commission is part of a wide reaching multi-faceted, multi-site project attending to all aspects of Pollard's practice. With a solo exhibition of the new commission at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, the project also involves special displays, workshops, talks and educational engagement with a range of diverse partners across Devon including the Devon and Exeter Institution, Libraries Unlimited, Natural England, the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, and South Devon College.
Supported by Arts Council England.  

'Belonging and Un-belonging in the English Countryside', 2 May 2019
Curated by Paul Gilroy, Cora Gilroy Ware and Ingrid Pollard

Programmed to complement The Lie of the Land group exhibition featuring Pollard (MK Gallery 16 March - 26 May 2019), this daylong symposium used performance, intergenerational conversation and deep listening to explore exclusion and the English countryside. Follow the links to see videos of the talks: