Her work uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness or racial difference.
In the 1980s, Pollard produced a series of photographs of black people in rural landscapes, entitled Pastoral Interludes.
In the early 1980s, she worked at the Lenthall Road Workshop, a feminist photography and screen-printing collective in the Haggerston area of Hackney, East London.
[8] Her photography was recognised in a survey edition of Birmingham's Ten.8 magazine[9] She then went on to complete an MA in Photographic Studies at Derby University in 1995.
In these series, she worked with material that evoked notions of heritage or played upon nostalgic sentiments associated with the national landscape: the souvenir postcard, the poetry of William Wordsworth and hand-tinted photographs.
She often placed text statements and quotations alongside her images to suggest a political framework for her photographic work.
A visit to the countryside is always accompanied by a feeling of unease, dread..."[12]From 2005 to 2008, Pollard was engaged in a research project into the "Black Boy", a name which was once used for some pubs in England.
[17] Pollard was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to art.