Ingrid Pollard

Exterior view of Glasgow Women's Library with a white flag showing the word No Cover Up

Interior of Glasgow Women's Library showing bookshelves in the foreground, and archive imagery (black and white photos) in the backgorund

Close up view of some books on a shelf with a small speaker inserted between them and a photo resting on top of the speaker

Glasgow Women's Library

Ingrid Pollard uses different photographic processes alongside printmaking, artist books, installation, video and audio to shed new light on important subjects. Following a residency in 2019 this solo exhibition revealed her responses to the materials held in the Lesbian archive at Glasgow Women’s Library. The new works offered a vital challenge to the marginalisation and erasure of LGBTQ+ history and culture.

Ingrid Pollard is a multi-media artist, photographer, researcher and lecturer. Pollard has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens-based media. Recent works include a re-examination of the UK and international archives to decolonise ethnographic and state-sponsored imagery of the former colonised countries.

Supported by Glasgow International

Listen to artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard and curator Freya Monk-McGowan discuss the history behind the Lesbian Archive, now housed at Glasgow Women’s library, and how it led to Ingrid’s exhibition No Cover Up.

Further exhibition materials available on Glasgow Women's Library website.