Jungle – Alexander James Pollard

20.04.17 - 13.05.17

Please join us for the opening of 'Jungle', an exhibition of new paintings by Alexander James Pollard.

Alexander James Pollard (b. 1977, Brighton, England) studied BA (Hons) Painting and Drawing at Glasgow School of Art from 1996-99, participating in an exchange program at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 1997.

His MPhil titled A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks was undertaken part-time from 2012-17 at Goldsmiths College, London. Pollard was a curator for two years at Transmission gallery, Glasgow between 1999 and 2001. In 2005 Pollard represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions include: Hot Lava, Project Room, Glasgow (2012); Collaborations, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow (2010); Tea-Leaf Demeanour, Whitechapel Project Space, London (2008) and Black Marks, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh (2007). Group exhibitions include Counter Facture at Luhring Augustine, New York in 2007, the Santorini Biennale in 2012 and The Irregular Correct – New Art from Glasgow at the Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia (2012). Pollard lives and works in London.

Photography: David Excoffier