Former PhD student Ingrid Pollard was recently nominated for the Turner Prize for her solo exhibition, ‘Carbon Slowly Turning’.
The Turner Prize is one of the best-known prizes for visual art, awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition as selected by an independent jury. It was founded by a group called the Patrons of New Art under the directorship of art critic, Alan Bowness, to encourage wider interest in contemporary art.
The prize also assists Tate, a UK art gallery, in acquiring new works. The winner of the award will receive £25,000 with the other three shortlisted artists given £5,000 each. This year’s Turner Prize is being held at Tate Liverpool.
Ingrid Pollard was nominated for her solo exhibition ‘Carbon Slowly Turning’, a project which reflects on geological time in relation to human time. Working mostly in photography and printmaking, Ingrid’s work on Black experience and the British countryside, on nature, nurture and the construction of a sense of place, in her early career. Her work also questions our relationship with the natural world and interrogates ideas such as Britishness, race and sexuality.
Ingrid Pollard is one of the 20 founders of Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers), a non-profit-making photographic arts agency which assists in the career development of black and "culturally diverse" photographers. She has previously been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, as well as named the inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex.
Commenting on the nomination, the Westminster alumni team said: “We’re delighted that Ingrid has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize for ‘Carbon Slowly Turning’. It’s a well-deserved recognition of the importance and impact of Ingrid’s work across her career, and reflective of the creativity which emanates from the graduates of our courses at Westminster.”
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