Alex Pollard was born in 1977 in Brighton, England. Pollard studied BA Painting and Drawing at Glasgow School of Art between 1996-1999, and he later graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in 2017.
Mainly a contemporary painter and sculptor, Pollard published the print titled “Jack Sheppard '' with the Glasgow Print Studio in 2008. The work references the notorious 18th Century thief and robber who gained anti-hero status as a result of repeated escapes from various prisons. The image is stretched and deformed, as in a hall of mirrors. Pollard plays a game of concealing and revealing with us, drawing attention to the self-conscious construction of the ‘counter cultural rebel’.
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 (2013-14), as well as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Painting and MA Fine Art at The University of Brighton (2014 - present).
In 2005 Pollard represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. His work is held in major international private and public collections including: Arts Council of England, Scottish National Gallery and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
