Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

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Born: Manchester/Newcastle
Lives: London

Education
BA Fine Art/Art Theory - Goldsmiths
MA Fine Art - Goldsmiths

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Kate MacGarry, London
Publicsfear, South london Gallery
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
2012 Thank You for The Music!, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2011
LIVE! L'arte incontra il rock, Centro per l' arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
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

Bibliography
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard'. Miria Swain, Untitled Autumn 2005
'Lover's View'. Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, 17th October 2005
'Got it Taped'. Paul Artrocker, Artrocker, Issue 15, 20 June 2005
'When does a sound become art?'. Survey, Art Review, May 2005
'Remake/Remodel'. Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Plan B, April/May 2005
Cream of the Crop Charlotte Edwards Independent on Sunday, 4 July 2004
London�s Top 25 New Artists Art Review supplement, July-August 2004
Psychotic Reaction Cathy Unsworth Mojo, September 2003
The Second Coming Vivienne Gaskin Schnitt (in German), Summer 2003
Rewind and Repeat to Fade Ian White Art Review, June 2003
It Beats Bingo! Iain Aitch The Guardian, 17 March 2003
Kick The Kitsch Michael Bracewell The Independent on Sunday, 23 March 2003
Spastic Fantastic Michael Williams Sleazenation, May 2003
Pop Art Susan Corrigan i-D Magazine, August 1997
Reel Around The Fountain David Barrett, Frieze, February - March 1997

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Grants/Awards
Beck�s New Contemporaries '97

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.