Kate Palmer


	Artists: Kate Palmer

Kate Palmer

About the artist...

Recently my work has dealt with issues of attachment and loss in the series of works on paper ’Now that I can no longer touch you’, the series of paintings ‘a split in the grain’ and the text piece DEATHTALK.
I aim to bridge the gap between the private model of mourning and the inter-subjective, public dimension - as in the work ‘Exquisite Pain’ by Sophie Calle or as the psychoanalyst Ginette Raimbault observed ‘What no one can understand about my pain, someone can express in such a way that I can recognize myself in what I cannot share.’
In a new series of paintings - the result of three years intense involvement in drawing and a journey back to a place from my childhood I thought lost to me - the erasure of marks – and the gaps between - become physical presences – what I cannot articulate becomes the place of potential, painful, poetic and dynamic.
As Darian Leader says in his book the New Black ‘we have to go outside ourselves to get back inside.’

www.katepalmerart.com

Biography Born 1966. SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009	'pushing blood back into my fingers', Broadbent, London
2004	‘Everything happens’, Broadbent, London
2001	'Against the Skin', Broadbent, London
	'Against the Skin', Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
2000-2001	'Energy-forms' (a rotating installation) Trinity College, Cambridge
1998	'Edifice', Paton Gallery, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008	Works on paper, Broadbent, London
	London Art Fair, Islington
	Toronto International Art Fair
2007	London Art Fair, Islington
	Toronto International Art Fair
2006	‘The Irresistible Force’, joint exhibition with Ingrid Kerma, Broadbent, London
	‘A split in the grain’ Broadbent, London
	‘Obsession’ Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
	The Curator’s Space, Great Eastern St. London
	‘Requiem’ intervention work, St.Anselm’s Church, London
	London Art Fair, Islington
	Toronto International Art Fair
	Art Chicago
2005	London Art Fair, Islington
2004	Art 2004, London
	Art Fiera Bologna, Italy
	Faith: Transition Gallery, London, CAS (Contemporary Art and the Spirits)
	0 Gallery, Osaka Japan, 1A Space, Hong Kong
2003	The Archive Show, Broadbent, London
	Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
	Art Fiera Bologna, Italy
	Art 2003, London
2002	Group Show, Broadbent, London
	Art 2002, London
2001	ART 2001, London
2000	Autumn Exhibition, Paton Gallery, London
1999	ART 99, London
	TURIN Art Fair, Turin, Italy
1998	Built, The Artists'Network, London
	ART 98, London Art Fair, London
	Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
1997	Images and Figures, Paton Gallery, London
	Absolut Secret Royal College of Art, London
1996	30 Minus, Paton Gallery, London
	Transcription, Paton Gallery, London
	ART COLOGNE, Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1995	Abspects of Abstraction, Paton Gallery, London
	Autumn Exhibition, Paton Gallery, London
1994	Abstraction 2, Paton Gallery, London
	Artists at the Economist Building, Paton Gallery, London
1993	Two Person Show, Paton Gallery, London
	Abstraction 1, Paton Gallery, London
1991	ART London '91, Sixth International Contemporarty Art Fair, London
	The New Decade 1, Paton Gallery, London
	Into the Nineties 3, Mall Galleries, London
1990	Neue Malerei de Dozenten und Studenten des RCA, Galerie zur alten deutschen Schule Thun, Switzerland
1989	2nd Biennale of European Art Schools, Antwerp, Belgium
1988	Whistler's Mother, Brixton, London

EDUCATION
1989-91	Royal College of Art MA, Fine Art Painting
1986-89	St Martin's School of Art, BA Hons, Fine Art Painting
1985-86	Oxford Polytechnic Foundation Course


RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2002	Shortlisted for the Abbey Rome Fellowship and Berwick Gymnasium Artist Residency
1999-01	Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, artist in residence,Trinity College Cambridge
1997	Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
1992	Artist in Residence, HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire
1991	Burston Award, Royal College of Art

COLLECTIONS
	Trinity College, Cambridge
	Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) Ltd
	Cowen (UK) Ltd
	Pearson plc
	Ashurst
	Unilever UKCR Ltd
	Private Collections in the UK, America and Europe