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'"Pastoral interlude"…it's as if the black experience is only ever lived within an urban environment. I thought I liked the Lake District
Pollard, Ingrid, born 1953 - Enlarge image
'"Pastoral interlude"…it's as if the black experience is only ever lived within an urban environment. I thought I liked the Lake District; where I wandered lonely as a black face in a sea of white. A visit to the countryside is always accompanied by a feeling of unease; dread…'
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
Lake District (photographed)
- Date:
1987 (photographed)
- Artist/Maker:
Pollard, Ingrid, born 1953 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Gelatin-silver print, coloured by hand
- Museum number:
E.722-1993
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, room WS, case R, shelf 61, box L
In the series ‘Pastoral Interludes’ Guyanese-born British photographer Ingrid Pollard explores issues of race, representation and the British landscape. The posing of her subjects in the Lake District, the epitome of authentic rural Britain, reveals the feelings of alienation and ‘otherness’ often experienced by black British people in rural areas. As a black British female artist, Pollard is one of those people whom the historian and writer C.L.R. James described as being in a position ‘to give a new vision, a deeper and stronger insight into both Western civilisation and the black people in it’.
