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 away 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.

In this event Ingrid Pollard will reflect on the themes explored in the 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).

Image: © Ingrid Pollard, MK Gallery

The Imagining Otherwise event series coincides with the As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture exhibition on display in the AA Gallery from 20 January to Saturday 25 March 2023.