Ingrid Pollard was born on 1953 and is a British artist and photographer.
18 Facts About Ingrid Pollard
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Ingrid Pollard's work uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness or racial difference.
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Ingrid Pollard has worked as an artist in residence at a number of organisations, including Lee Valley Park Authority, London, Cumbria National Park, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, Chenderit School, Oxfordshire, and Croydon College.
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Ingrid Pollard has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a lecturer in Photography at Kingston University.
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Ingrid Pollard is a member of the Mapping Spectral Traces research group.
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Ingrid Pollard has described her youthful awareness of family photographs.
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Ingrid Pollard began to make her own pictures using her father's box camera.
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Ingrid Pollard was one of twenty founding members of Autograph ABP in 1988.
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Ingrid Pollard has participated several exhibitions that brought together work by Black British artists, including Black Women Time Now, The Thin Black Line and Three Black Women Photographers.
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Ingrid Pollard completed a BA degree in Film and Video at the London College of Printing in 1988 and, between 1986 and 1993, worked on the technical crew for a small number of film projects.
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Ingrid Pollard's photography was recognised in a survey edition of Birmingham's Ten.
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Ingrid Pollard was awarded a PhD by publication by University of Westminster in 2016.
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Ingrid Pollard often placed text statements and quotations alongside her images to suggest a political framework for her photographic work.
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From 2005 to 2008, Ingrid Pollard was engaged in a research project into the "Black Boy", a name which was once used for some pubs in England.
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Ingrid Pollard was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2016.
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In 2018, Ingrid Pollard was the inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex.
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In 2022 Ingrid Pollard was one of four artists nominated for the Turner Prize.
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Ingrid Pollard was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to art.