Join Ingrid and Paul as they walk and talk in the Devonshire countryside discussing birds, forest bathing, and folklore. This session begins with an audio recording accompanied by images, and is followed by a live conversation with Ingrid and Paul, picking up on the themes of their walk and Ingrid's exhibition.
This event is part of a series of online expert talks and Q&A sessions, where a range of writers, scholars, artists and curators present on Pollard's practice through a different subject lens each week.
The series is part of a wider project across Devon focused on Pollard produced by talking on corners and supported using public funding from Arts Council England. As part of the wider programme, Pollard was commissioned to make a series of new work, Ingrid Pollard: Three Drops of Blood, exhibited at Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, which illustrates the intimacy, care, nuance and technical skill of Pollard’s extensive practice as one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. (See online version of the exhibition here.)
Cost: Free.
Advance booking is essential - click on the Register button on this page to book your ticket. You will be sent a link nearer the date of the event to enable you to join.
Accessibility Statement: Live captioning via Teams will be available during this event.
About the speakers
Academic and writer Paul Gilroy is one of the foremost cultural and social theorists of our time. His work has been instrumental in (re)shaping debates on racism, nationalism and diasporic culture. He is the author of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Against Race (2000), After Empire (2004) and Darker Than Blue (2010), in addition to many influential articles and essays. Gilroy is currently the Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation, at University College London. In 2019, Gilroy was awarded the Holberg Prize for “his outstanding contributions to a number of academic fields, including cultural studies, critical race studies, history and African-American studies”.
Ingrid Pollard is a leading artist, photographer and researcher. Her work is included in numerous collections including the Arts Council, Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Pollard has an extensive career. Her most recent exhibitions are Carbon Slowly Turning, exhibited at the MK gallery earlier this year, now showing at the Turner Contemporary and Three Drops of Blood currently at Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. A leading figure in contemporary British art, Pollard’s practice incorporates photography, print, mixed media, installation, text and found objects. She is fascinated by the process of image-making and the materiality of lens-based media. Pollard is renowned for using portrait and landscape photography to question our relationship with the natural world and to interrogate social constructs such as race, sexuality, heritage and identity. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has been the recipient of awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the BALTIC artists’ award. In 2022, Pollard was one of four artists nominated for the Turner Prize.
About the Ingrid Pollard Speaker Series
The Ingrid Pollard Speaker Series is generously supported by the Paul Mellon Centre, Arts and Culture University of Exeter, the Association for Art History and the University of Exeter Geography department. It is part of a wider project across Devon focused on Pollard produced by talking on corners and supported using public funding from Arts Council England.
Project partners are Thelma Hulbert Gallery, the Devon and Exeter Institution, Libraries Unlimited, Arts and Culture University of Exeter and Natural England. They have developed an incredibly varied associated programme of events and activities including an exhibition of new work commissioned by talking on corners, at Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Ingrid Pollard: Three Drops of Blood, and a supporting display at the Devon and Exeter Institution (6 Aug - 29 Oct 2022). View the full project programme here.