About the edition
This limited edition, interactive print was created in DCA Print Studio as part of Ingrid Pollard's residency as she prepared work for the DCA exhibition Soft Impressions.
Soft Impressions was a major cross-generational exhibition which included new and existing print work from Pollard, Helen Cammock and Camara Taylor. The exhibition engaged with printmaking’s role in the historic distribution of ideas about race and depictions of otherness, and its use as a tool for both political activism and propaganda.
As part of the exhibition, Pollard created new work in DCA Print Studio which looked at themes of repetition. The screenprint Bruised, 2024, and the hand-screenprinted wallpaper work Sometimes, 2024, both looked at how repeated behaviours can be negative, such as in abusive relationships.
She continued the theme of repetition for this limited edition print, focusing instead on music and movement. The image of the drummer is taken from a broadside ballard, which were narrative songs or poems printed on single sheets of cheap paper, sold on the streets, and sung publicly. Incorporating movement design by the Print Studio team, the print can be brought to life by pulling a tab at the bottom. This causes the drummer to bang his drum and stamp his foot.
Please note that this work can only be handled delicately and is not intended for children.
| Year | 2025 |
| Edition of | 10 |
| Media | Hand tinted digital print on Somerset satin enhanced paper with Fabriano 4 Liscio support paper |
| Dimensions | Including tab: 23.8 x 22.3cm |
| Signature | Signed and numbered by the artist verso |
About Ingrid Pollard
Prof. Ingrid Pollard MBE is a photographer, media artist and researcher. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and moved to London as a child with her family. She was drawn into the political liberation movements of the late 1980s and early 1990s, working with a community-based screen printing and photographic workshop and supplying images to magazines such as Spare Rib.
She is a graduate of the London College of Printing and Derby University, and was awarded her doctorate by the University of Westminster in 2016. Pollard has developed a practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens-based media. Her work is included in numerous collections including the UK Arts Council and the Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2018, she was the inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex, in 2019 she received both the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award and BALTIC Artists Award. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022, and in 2024 was the recipient of both the Hasselblad Award Laureate and The Royal Photographic Society Centenary Medal. She currently lives and works in Northumberland, Northeast England.
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