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Alexander James Pollard’s work explores divergent world making through composite painting, experimental writing, and cut-up techniques. He produces contributions within painting, zines and graphic novel fields.
About His Paintings:
“I am interested in representation as a carrier for narrative, visual oddness and weirdness, ambiguity and atmosphere. I also explore the emotive resonance of colour and texture, and the nuance and unpredictability of the painterly mark. These factors all contribute to why one painting may ‘do something’ and another might not.”
Collaborative Book Projects:
In a recent illustrated artist’s book titled: Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson: The Order of the Dawn Man of 2022 (*made in collaboration with Luke Pendrell), Pollard co-wrote and illustrated a short story using a cut-up collaborative postal art process. This book work explores a fictional relationship between Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson (creator of the Piltdown Man), conjuring up an alternative history of the Piltdown skull. One which accentuates the occultish, esoteric and supersensible readings of the skull as a hyperstitional object.
*The painting shown above is titled “Cat God”, oil on panel, 2020. Originally shown in Reboot: Ruins in Reverse, La Plateform, Dunkirk, France, 2020.
* Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson: The Order of the Dawn Man by Luke Pendrell and Alexander James Pollard is available in the University of Brighton Library at St. Peters House.
*Instagram: @ajpollard
Pollard studied BA (Hons) Painting and Drawing at Glasgow School of Art (1996-99). His MPhil titled A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks was undertaken at Goldsmiths College, London (2017).
In 2005 Pollard represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. Highlights of his exhibition history include: Reboot: Ruins in Reverse, La Plate-forme, Dunkerque, France (2020), Paleo Fauvism, Hop Projects, Folkestone (2018), Jungle, Celine Gallery, Glasgow (2017), WoW Paintings, Young Team HQ, London (2016), Black Marks, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh (2007), Counter Facture at Luhring Augustine, New York (2007), The Santorini Biennale, Santorini, Greece (2012) and The Irregular Correct – New Art from Glasgow at the Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia (2012).
Pollard has worked as a lecturer in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art (2006-2013) and in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) (2013-14). He now works at The University of Brighton (2014 - present), where he is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Painting and MA Fine Art.
His work is held in major international private and public collections including: Arts Council of England, Scottish National Gallery, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, The Government Art Collection. And private collections in the UK, Italy, Greece, Germany, Japan and the USA.
Master, A Genealogy of Bad Painting: Legacies, Soft-Objects and Networks, Goldsmiths College, London
1 Sept 2012 → 1 Sept 2017
Award Date: 2 Oct 2017
Bachelor, Painting and Drawing, Glasgow School of Art
1 Sept 1996 → 1 Sept 1999
Award Date: 3 Jun 1999
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Research output: Non-textual output › Exhibition
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Pollard, A. (Presenter) & Poblete, T. (Presenter)
Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Pollard, A. (Presenter)
Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk