Iain Forsyth born in Manchester 1973, Jane Pollard born in Newcastle 1972. Both live and work in London.

Solo Exhibitions and Live Art Projects

2011

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Kate MacGarry

2010

Silent Sound (live performance), AV Festival , Middlesbrough Town Hall

2009
Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work, BFI Southbank Gallery, London
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Void Gallery, Derry
Performer. Audience. Fuck Off, Site Gallery, Sheffield

2008
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Kate MacGarry, London
Run For Me, ArtProjx at Prince Charles Cinema, London. Introduced by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Run For Me, Baltic, Gateshead
Run For Me, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Lawrence Eng, Vancouver
Call & Response, Musee d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemborug

2007
Silent Sound, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach
The 24 seven, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Precious Little, MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland touring to Physics Room, Christchurch
Anyone else isn't you, BRITDOC, Keble College, Oxford
Kiss My Nauman, Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London

2006
Silent Sound (installation), A Foundation at Greenland Street, Liverpool
Silent Sound (live performance), St. George's Hall, Liverpool
Change My Life, Noyes Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jerwood Space, London

2005
Anyone else isn't you, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Brighton Film Festival, Brighton
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Kate MacGarry, London
Anyone else isn't you, The Hospital, London

2004
Everybody else is wrong, Pavilion, Montreal

2003
File under Sacred Music, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1998
A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The kids are alright, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1997
The Smiths is dead, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Doing it for the Kids, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool

1996
The World Won't Listen, Underwood Street Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2010

In The Long Run: 30 Years of the Great North Run, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne

New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection, touring the UK March 2010 - November 2011 to: Museum and Art Gallery, Derby;Longside Gallery, near Wakefield; DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Durham; Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum, Lochmaddy; OVADA, Oxford; The Brindley, Runcorn; Museum and Art Gallery, Newport; Lightbox, Woking; The Collection, Lincoln; Rhyl Library Art Gallery, Rhyl.

Black Mirror, Centre d'art scenique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

Talking Heads, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin

2009

Recent acquisitions, De Hallen museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Down at The Bamboo Club, Picture This Atelier, Bristol

V-Effekt/ In and Out of Place, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin

Pete and Repeat, 176, London
The Communism of Forms, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Meeting Point, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto

2008
This Is The Gallery And The Gallery Is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Art & Music in Popular Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Affectionate Homages and Hostile Takeovers, The Power Plant, Toronto
I have no issues, Lawrence Eng, Vancouver
Into The Music, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich
Sonic Youth, Green on Red, Dublin
The Happy Land, National Film Theatre, Southbank, London
Popshop, MU, Eindhoven
I desired what you were... I need what you are, Maze, Turin
Past Forward, 176, London
History Will Repeat Itself, HMKV, Dortmund touring to Kunst-Werke, Berlin and CCA, Warsaw
Just Play, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
Volume(s), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Medium Cool, Art in General, New York
Unpacking the Archive, 1:1 Projects, Rome

2007
Nick Cave - The Exhibition, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Amass, Boots Contemporary Art Space, Missouri
Grain, Isle of Grain, Kent
A Second Life, Stadtgalerie, Bern
The Communism of Forms, Vermelho Gallery, Brazil
The Weasel, South London Gallery, London
Overtake: The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, alt.vinyl Gallery, Newcastle touring to Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
After The Fact, BFI Southbank, London
Navigations: per Forma, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Love & Anarchy, K3, Zurich
...Ma come mai? Paolo Bonzano Memorial Exihibition, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome

2006
Street: Behind The Cliche, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Neo-Con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, Apex Art, New York touring to the British School at Rome
37 Seconds, The Big Screen, Liverpool
Switch on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo touring to Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Spain and Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spain
Et Tu Tribute, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Black: Implication Flooding, Colony, Birmingham
Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, CQL Design Center, Shanghai touring to Dashanzi, Beijing
Music for People, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Surfing the Surface, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome

2005
Video London, Espai Ubu, Barcelona
Rhythm-A-Ning, Walton's New School, Dublin touring to Context Gallery, Derry
Biennale! Temporary Contemporary, London touring to Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming & Canton

2004
VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel
Yugoslav Biennial, Vrsac, Serbia & Montenegro
Faraway So Close, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
This Much Is Certain, Royal College of Art, London
Artists Films About Music Culture, National Film Theatre, London

2003
File under Sacred Music, Schaufenster, Oslo
Shooting Live Artists, Site Gallery, Sheffield

2001
Modern Love, hobbypopMUSEUM, Dusseldorf touring to VTO Gallery, London
Century City, Tate Modern, London

1999
Kill Yr Idols, Laure Genillard Gallery, London

1997
Victoria, Laurent Delaye, London
Beck's New Contemporaries '97, Cornerhouse, Manchester touring to Camden Arts Centre, London and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (selected by Sarat Maharaj, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gillian Wearing)

1996
Yerself is Steam, 85 Charlotte Street, London (curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard)

1995
The Hanging Picnic, Factual Nonsense, Hoxton Square, London

Music Videos and DVD Releases

2009
Do you love me like I love you, Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial (Mute Records)
Do you love me like I love you, Part 3: Kicking Against The Pricks (Mute Records)
Do you love me like I love you, Part 2: The Firstborn Is Dead (Mute Records)
Do you love me like I love you, Part 1: From Her To Eternity (Mute Records)
The Letter, The Veils (Rough Trade Records)

2008
Midnight Man, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute Records)
More News From Nowhere, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute Records)
Night of the Lotus Eaters, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute Records)
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute Records)

2007
The Treacle Sessions, Grinderman (Mute Records)

Education

Forsyth and Pollard studied together in London.
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, 2002- 04
BA Fine Art & Art Theory, Goldsmiths College, 1992- 95

Publications

2009
Perform, Repeat, Record: A Critical Anthology of Live Art in History, Routledge. Edited by Adrian Heathfield and Amelia Jones, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard in conversation with Andrew Renton

2008
In The Space of Elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, University of Kingston. Text by Ilsa Colsell
Past Forward, 176, London. Texts by Ilsa Colsell and Ben Borthwick

2007
Angelaki, Routledge, Visual project by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
comunismo da Forma, Som, Immagem E Politica da Arte, Alameda Casa, Sao Paulo. Text by Earl Miller
History Will Repeat Itself, HMVK, Dortmund. Text by Anke Hoffmann
Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Lucia Farinati, Audio Arts Volume 25
...Ma come mai? Paolo Bonzano Memorial, Galleria Paolo Bonzano. Edited by Cecila Canziani

2006
Liverpool Art Tripper, The Power of Art Podcasts, commissioned by the BBC and Arts Council England
Silent Sound, A Foundation, Liverpool. With audio CD. Text by Ilsa Colsell
Experience, Memory, Re-Enactment, Revolver, Edited by Anke Bangma, Steve Rushton, Florian Wust
Metropolis Rise, Temporary Contemporary, Shanghai and Beijing. Text by Anthony Gross

2005
Anyone else isn't you, The Hospital, London. Texts by Momus, Steve Lamacq and JJ Charlesworth
Biennale! Temporary Contemporary, London

2004
VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Viper, Basel
Yugoslav Biennial, Vrsac, Serbia & Montenegro. Text by Sinisa Mitrovic
This Much Is Certain, Royal College of Art, London. Text by Tom McCarthy

1999
Strange Fascination: David Bowie - The Definitive Story, Virgin Books. Text by David Buckley

1997
Words & Pictures issue 10. Texts by Momus and Liam Gillick*
Words & Pictures issue 9. Texts by Neil Crawford*
Beck's New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester. With audio CD. Text by Sacha Craddock
Moving Targets, A Users Guide To British Art Now, Tate Gallery Publishing. Text by Louisa Buck
Words & Pictures issue 8. Texts by Angus Fairhurst and Simon Ford*

1996
Words & Pictures issue 7. Texts by Billy Childish and Simon Cutts*
Words & Pictures issue 6. Texts by Simon Bill and Andrew Wilson*
Life/Live, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Texts by Laurence Bosse and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Words & Pictures issue 5. Texts by Max Wigram and Jake Chapman*

1995
Words & Pictures issue 4. Texts by Tracey Emin and Martin Maloney*
Words & Pictures issue 3. Texts by Joshua Compston and Stewart Home*
Words & Pictures issue 2. Texts by Jeremy Millar and Dr. Sarat Maharaj*

1994
Versus, Visual Project by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Words & Pictures issue 1. Texts by Momus and Liam Gillick*
Words & Pictures - Pilot issue. Text by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard*

* Words & Pictures was published and curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard between May 1994 and November 1997. Each issue was produced in a limited edition of 100 copies and took the form of a boxed container of signed and numbered artists' editions. Over 200 artists contributed to the project, including: Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Matthew Higgs, Andrew Hunt, Alan Kane, Tony Kemplen, Paul McDevitt, Adam McEwen, Simon Periton, Hadrian Pigott, Georgio Sadotti, David Shrigley, Bob & Roberta Smith, Bridgett Smith, Polly Staple, Georgina Starr, Gavin Turk and Jessica Voorsanger. Complete sets of Words & Pictures are held in several major public and private collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Gallery in London, The Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry in Miami, Yale University Collection of Rare Books and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Press

2009

Encounter in the third dimension, Mark Fisher, Sight & Sound, June, pp. 12-3

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, May 21-27, p.52
After the Party: the first albums remastered David Cavanagh, Uncut, April
Exhibitionist: The Best Art Shows To See This Week Laura McLean-Ferris, The Guardian, 20 March
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard at Art Basel Miami Beach Hiroshi Kagiyama, Huge, March (in Japanese)

2008
Review: Forsyth & Pollard at Kate MacGarry Skye Sherwin, Art Review, December
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Conor Carville, Frieze, November
Golden Generation: The 20 Best Up-And-Coming Artists Alice Jones, The Independent, 10 October
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard JJ Charlesworth, Time Out, 2 October
Run For Me David Whetstone, The Newcastle Journal, 10 September
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 6 September
Preview: Forsyth & Pollard at Kate MacGarry Skye Sherwin, Art Review, September
To be immersed in the experience of now Earl Miller, C Magazine, Spring
Cross Platform Louise Gray, The Wire, January

2007
Art Fairs - Art Basel Miami Beach Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 12 August
Retro/Necro Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Art Papers, November (cover)
Communismo da foma Alameda, August
Musical Mix Rebecca Barry, New Zealand Herald, 27 June
Precious Little Katey Griffin, Groove Guide, June
Neo:Con Cristiana Parella, Flash Art, April-May (in Itallian)
Stars In Their Eyes Lawrence Chiles, Wonderland, April
Back To The Future Helen Sumpter, Time Out, 14 March
Silent Sound, Rachel Lois Clapham, AN Magazine, January
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Ossian Ward, Monopol, January

2006
Music: Best of 2006, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Artforum, December
Silent Sound, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, Issue 103, November-December
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Jason Pierce, Cedar Lewisohn, MAP, Issue 8, Winter
Street: Behind the Cliche, Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, November
The voice within, Chris Mugan, The Independent, 13 October
Be Here Now, Adam E Mendelsohn, Art Monthly, October
Legends of the Fall, Richard Clayton, The Sunday Times Culture, 17 September
Musical Mind Control, Bolton Evening News, 11 September
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 10th June
Private View, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, issue 1867, 31 May
Forsyth and Pollard: Take Two, Charles Danby, i-D magazine, Issue 267, June-July

2005
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Miria Swain, Untitled, Autumn
Lovers View, Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, 17 October
Rhythm-A-Ning, Sinead Halkett, Circa, Issue 113, Autumn
Inside Story, Joe Heany, Gay Times, Issue 332, July
New Exhibition Encourages a Change of Art, Eileen Walsh, Daily Ireland, 23 June
Got it Taped, Paul Artrocker, Artrocker, Issue 15, 20 June
My Fidelity, Steve Lamacq, The Guardian, 4 June
When does a sound become art?, Survey, Art Review, May
Remake/Remodel, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Plan B, April/May

2004
Cream of the Crop, Charlotte Edwards, Independent on Sunday, 4 July
London's top 25 new artists, Charlotte Edwards, Art Review, July
This Much Is Certain, Chris McCormack, Contemporary, June
We Love Each Other, Craig Taylor, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, 17 April
Les jeux de lamour et du mixtape, Philippe Renaud, La Presse (in French), 18 February
Recording Romance, Lorraine Carpenter, Montreal Mirror, 5 February

2003
Record, Rewind and Eject, Andre Salas, Filmmaker Magazine, Fall
Psychotic Reaction, Cathy Unsworth, Mojo, September
The Second Coming, Vivienne Gaskin, Schnitt (in German), Summer
Would a band by any other name smell as sweet?, Niru Ratnam, i-D magazine, July
London News, Richard Dyer, Contemporary, June
Rewind and repeat to fade, Ian White, Art Review, June
Spastic Fantastic, Michael Williams, Sleazenation, May
Cramp Styling, Ian Harrison, Mojo, May
Parkies Get Cramped, X-Ray Magazine, April
The Power of Re-Presentation, Rob Haynes, Metro, 28 March
Kick The Kitsch, Michael Bracewell, The Independent on Sunday 23 March
It Beats Bingo!, Iain Aitch, The Guardian, 17 March
File under Sacred Music, Becky Carroll, The Guardian Guide, 1 March

2002
I've built my world around you, Art Review, February
Modern Love, Gilda Williams, Art Monthly, February

1999
Kill Yr Idols, Chris Townsend, Hotshoe International, September / October
Kill Yr Idols, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Guide, 15 July
Kill Yr Idols, Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, 2 July
Vision Great Britain: Kill Yr Idols, Cristina Franzoni, Zoom Magazine, July
The Ultimate Mix, Gordon Dalton, Artists Newsletter, April
A Rock N Roll Suicide, The Bulletin, Belgium, 14 January

1998
New Contemporaries, Scene, August
A Rock N Roll Suicide, Select, August
Star in their eyes, Boy George, The Sunday Express, 12 July
Boy, could they play guitar, Nick Coleman, The Independent, 10 July
Ziggy Plays Again, Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 4 July
Steve Harvey on,.. A Rock N Roll Suicide, Max Bell, Hot Tickets, 2 July
A Rock N Roll Suicide, Tim Lusher, The Evening Standard, 2 July
Review - Host, Contemporary Visual Arts, July-September
A Rock N Roll Suicide, Mojo, July
The Starman Cometh, Michelle Olley, Attitude, July
Ziggy Rises Again, Mark Paytress, Record Collector, July
Ziggy is playing guitar again, Lena Corner, The Big Issue, 29 June
A Rock N Roll Suicide, Vivienne Heller, The Independent, 27 June
A Rock N Roll Suicide, Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian Guide, 27 June
Lookalike Ziggy played guitar!, Shropshire Star, 23 June
Ziggy is back and hes still a work of art, Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 23 June
Are They Listening Yet?, Marcus Reeves, Mister Peculiar, June
Review - Host, Neil Mulholland, Art Monthly, June

1997
Band Art, Andrew Wilson, Art Monthly, October
The Smiths is dead, Tim Lusher, The Evening Standard, 1 August
Pop Art, Susan Corrigan, i-D Magazine, August
Becks New Contemporaries 97, David Barrett, Art Monthly, July-August
Why oh why Y-fronts, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 5 June
Doing it for the Kids, Iain Simons, Live Art Magazine, 21 May - 27 July
Sod Art, Lets Dance, Imogen ORorke, The Guardian, 10 July
New take on pop is stranger than life, Penny Kiley, Liverpool Daily Post, 14 April
Sound-alike stars are doing it for the kids, Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post, 7 April
Doing it for the Kids, Liverpool Echo, 4 April
Seeing Stars, Event Magazine, 27 March - 9 April
Reel Around The Fountain, David Barrett, Frieze, March-April

1996
P.S.. Tim Lusher, The Evening Standard, 22 November
Die Karrieren der Brit-Art-Acts und ihr Medium, Jessica Wyman, Springer, September (in German)
The London Summer Round-Up, David Burrows, Art Monthly, September
Yerself is Steam, Vikki Reid, The Evening Standard, 30 July
Yerself is Steam, Tania Guha, Time Out, 24-31 July
Interview with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Luci Eyers, Everything Magazine, April-June

1995
Multiple Choice, Sotiris Kyriacou, Artists Newsletter, March
Multiplication, Erika Lederman, Art Monthly, February
Artists Books, etc, Artists Newsletter, February

1994
Box Clever, Angela Pertusini, The Big Issue, November