Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

Works
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, DOUBLETHINK, 2018
    DOUBLETHINK, 2018
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Multigraph 007 (Freya Mavor), 2018
    Multigraph 007 (Freya Mavor), 2018
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Multigraph 010 (George MacKay), 2018
    Multigraph 010 (George MacKay), 2018
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Requiem for 114 Radios, 2016
    Requiem for 114 Radios, 2016
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Performer. Audience. Fuck Off, 2009
    Performer. Audience. Fuck Off, 2009
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Walking Over Acconci (Misdirected Reproaches), 2008
    Walking Over Acconci (Misdirected Reproaches), 2008
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Silent Sound (the booth), 2006
    Silent Sound (the booth), 2006
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, A Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide, 1998
    A Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide, 1998
  • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Chain Smoker Tap Dancer, 1995
    Chain Smoker Tap Dancer, 1995
Biography

Iain Forsyth was born in 1973 in Manchester, Jane Pollard was born in 1972 in Newcastle. They live and work in London. Forsyth & Pollard are artists and BAFTA nominated directors working across film, installation, performance, sound, documentary and TV drama. Working collaboratively since meeting at Goldsmiths in the mid-nineties, their work has been exhibited around the world and is collected by museums and institutions including Tate at the British Government Art Collection. Their debut feature film, 20,000 Days on Earth, won two awards at Sundance and nominations from BAFTA and the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2015, Iain & Jane received the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director from the British Independent Film Awards.

 

Forsyth & Pollard were nominated for the Samsung Art + Prize in 2012 and the Jarman Award in 2014. They were selected for New Contemporaries in 1997. A major retrospective of their work was presented at South London Gallery in 2011. Art commissions include BBC Radio, the Great North Run, BFI Gallery and the City of Toronto, who commissioned their first major outdoor public work in 2011. Other solo exhibitions include Requiem for 114 Radios, Colston Hall Bristol, UK (2016); Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic (with Scott Walker), Sydney Opera House and Silent Sound (2013) and Silent Sound commissioned by A Foundation, Liverpool, UK (2020). In 2022, Forsyth & Pollard will co-curate The Horror Show: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain at Somerset House, London, UK. 

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