Imagining Otherwise with Ingrid Pollard

Titled after Lola Olufemi’s “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise”, this lecture series learns from established practices that shift the focus from European contexts or knowledge systems. We will navigate the space between what is and what could be, weaving through an exploration of identities and the possibility of living otherwise. This lecture series is curated and chaired by Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Bushra Mohamed, Merve Anil and Georges Massoud.

In this event as part of the Imagining Otherwise series Ingrid Pollard will reflect on the themes explored in the 2022 Carbon Slowly Turning exhibition at the MK Gallery, where she interrogated the social constructs of Britishness, race, sexuality and identity in relation to the landscape. She will share how her work continues to engage with these topics.

Dr Ingrid Pollard MBE comes from a community arts background and trained in print making, film and photography. She is an Honorary Fellow from the Royal Photographic Society.

Recent exhibitions; We have Met Before, (2017), National Gallery of Jamaica, Valentine Days, (2017) Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, London, Deep Down Body Thirst, Glasgow International, (2018), Sapphic Modernism, John Hansard Gallery (2018), In Front of The Sea, Centre d’art Contemprian, France (2021).

In 2019 she was awarded the BALTIC Artist’s Award and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artists Award. She was awarded the Freeland Foundation Award with MK Gallery for the exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning which was nominated for the Turner Prize (2022).