Artist Conversation: Ingrid Pollard

Throughout her career, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored themes of Black feminism, race, and gender, with a focus on representation and history within the British landscape. In the 1980s, she was involved in feminist organizations in London and contributed photographs to the 1990 book Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, which showcased the work of contemporary Black and queer makers of color. The book emphasized self-sufficiency and freedoms defiantly explored at the margins of the British mainstream.

In this conversation, Pollard and scholar Hazel Carby reflect on Pollard’s work on display in After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, drawing connections to the concept of Quilombismo, one of the key Pan-Africanist movements featured in the exhibition.

This talk is supported by the Crossed Purposes Foundation Fund.