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Ingrid Pollard : carbon slowly turning

Title: Ingrid Pollard : carbon slowly turning / edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira. Essays by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Cheryl Finley, Paul Gilroy, Mason Leaver-Yap and Gilane Tawadross.
Author: Pollard, Ingrid
Publication: [London] : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2022.

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Description

191 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm

Summary

Ingrid Pollard is a British media artist and researcher who has developed a social practice concerned with representation, using portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness or racial difference. While she became known for her photographic series, she has also throughout her career been uncovering unseen and hidden histories in a variety of practices from printmaking, drawing, mixed media and film. Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slow Turning situates Pollard's practice in a wider context and weaves together her personal story and Caribbean heritage with broader narratives of post war black settlement and photographic history. Continuing the theme of exposing what is hidden, Pollard challenges in her works the representation and derogatory portrayals of the 'black figure'. For four decades, Pollard's important photographic collages have offset traditionally idyllic representations of Britain with unseen legacies of xenophobia and exclusion. Pastoral Interlude (1988) places the Black figure within an imagined picturesque setting, undermining perceptions of 'urban' and 'authentic rural'. Seaside Series (1989) combines cyphers of coastal tourism with stories of historic and contemporary immigration to the UK. More recently, Seventeen of Sixty-Eight (2019) documents how the African body is represented in popular signwriting. Despite Pollard's work being held in several national collections and discussed in every publication on black artists in Britain, the artist is little known to the general public. There is no doubt that her practice and achievements are nationally significant and this first monograph seeks to widen her exposure.

Alternative Title

Carbon slowly turning.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published to accompany an exhibition held at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 12 March - 29 May, 2022 and Turner Contemporary, Margate, 9 July - 25 September, 2022.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

Sc F 23-516

ISBN

1781301190
9781781301197

OCLC

1288136988

Author

Pollard, Ingrid, artist.

Title

Ingrid Pollard : carbon slowly turning / edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira. Essays by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Cheryl Finley, Paul Gilroy, Mason Leaver-Yap and Gilane Tawadross.

Publisher

[London] : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. CO-PUB WITH MK GALLERY. HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Blanchard, Fay, editor.

Spira, Anthony, editor.

Arabindan-Kesson, Anna, writer of essay.

Finley, Cheryl, writer of essay.

Gilroy, Paul, 1956- writer of essay.

Leaver-Yap, Mason, writer of essay.

Tawadross, Gilane, writer of essay.

Milton Keynes Gallery, host institution.

Turner Contemporary (Arts organization : Margate, England), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-516

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