Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard & Camara Taylor: Soft Impressions is a new exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), showing new and existing print work by all three artists from the early 2000s to the present day, contextualised alongside works in installation, moving image, textiles and a painted mural. Drawing its title from printmaking, where each work pulled from a printing plate is called an impression, Soft Impressions is about printmaking’s role in the distribution historically of ideas about race and depictions of otherness as well as its use as a tool for political activism and propaganda.

The display includes new commissions in print created by Helen Cammock and Ingrid Pollard during 2024 production residencies in the DCA’s print studio, while Ingrid Pollard has also produced a new print edition, which is available for sale in the DCA shop and online.

All three artists’ work is underpinned by extensive research, such as Camara Taylor’s exploration into the life and work of the African-American artist Robert S Duncanson (pictured above), who spent time in Scotland in the 1870s during the anti-abolitionist movement and painted a number of his best-known works here.