Ingrid Pollard (born Georgetown, Guyana) is one of the leading figures in contemporary British art. Renowned for using portrait and landscape photography to question our relationship with the natural world and to interrogate social constructs such as Britishness, race, sexuality and identity. Working across a variety of techniques from photography, printmaking, drawing and installation to artists’ books, video and audio, she combines meticulous research and experimental processes to make art that is at once deeply personal and socially resonant.

ArtBomb Project: Carbon Slowly Turning

The celebrated artist and photographer, Ingrid Pollard gave our opening keynote talk on August 11th. Her new major mid-career survey exhibition ‘Carbon Slowly Turning’, exploring how images and identity are constructed, especially in representations of history and the landscape, has just opened at Turner Contemporary in Margate and has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize. Originally from Guyana, her work ‘exposes prevailing myths about the English landscape and Englishness’ (The Guardian). She was a member of Broxbourne Rowing Club and uses rowing as a motif in one of her new works ‘Rhythms at Hand’ (2022) which captures dancers and rowers bodies in motion. She will discuss this work, among others, in a conversation with curator Rob La Frenais, who is also a rower.