Sustainable Futures - Art + Environment
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Exploring the connection between the legacies of colonialism and the climate emergency with artists Alberta Whittle and Ingrid Pollard.
About this event
Memory, environment, geography and identity are all themes explored in the works of Alberta Whittle and Ingrid Pollard. The relationship between the human body and the natural world is a thread running through the work of both artists, and offers a different perspective on the complex topic of the climate emergency, one where social and environmental justice are inextricably linked.
In this conversation Alberta and Ingrid will be joined in conversation by curator and writer Ekow Eshun to speak more about the their practice.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Ingrid Pollard
Ingrid Pollard is a photographer, multimedia artist and researcher. She has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens based media.
Pollard was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2016, and in 2018 was the inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Essex. She has exhibited widely, and her works are included in numerous collections including the Arts Council Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Alberta Whittle
Alberta Whittle is an artist, researcher and curator whose creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. She choreographs interactive installations using film, sculpture and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces.
Whittle received her MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2011, and she is currently a PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art. She is representing Scotland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 and has been awarded a Turner bursary, the Frieze Artist Award and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020.
Ekow Eshun
Ekow Eshun is a Ghanaian-British writer, editor and curator.
He has been the editor of numerous magazines, including Tank, Arena and Mined and was the Artistic and Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London between 2005 and 2010.
He holds an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University and is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, overseeing London's most significant public art programme. He writes frequently for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, The Face and the Observer, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4.
ABOUT THE SERIES
How can artists explore and navigate the changing environment, climate instability and justice to create a more sustainable future?
Art + Environment will explore the impact of climate instability on the arts and artists, looking at how the visual arts sector is working towards more sustainable practices and a decarbonised future.
Contributors include leading artists, institutions and organisations working at the forefront of the cultural sector's response to the climate emergency.
Featuring: David Buckland (Cape Farewell), Rosie Cooper (Wysing Arts Centre), Ekow Eshun, Heath Lowndes (Gallery Climate Coalition), Ingrid Pollard, Himali Singh Soin, Sarah Staton, Alberta Whittle and more to be announced.
In partnership with Gallery Climate Coalition.
Media partner: Right Click Save
Image credit: True North © Gautier Deblonde. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022
