Angela Palmer is represented by The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1S 2JT, www.faslondon.com, and until August 2013 by Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND, www.waterhousedodd.com
Education
George Watson’s Ladies College, Edinburgh
BA, Exeter College, University of Oxford, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
MA, Royal College of Art, London
Exhibitions
Forthcoming:
Group show ‘Carving in Britain: From 1910 to Now, Nov 30, 2012 to Jan 12, 2013 at The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London http://www.faslondon.com/fileadmin/images/FASC/Exhibitions_Forthcoming/Carving_Press_Release.pdf
Latest:
Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND, May 16 – June 8, 2012 Solo show
Current:
Ghost Forest Permanent installation of rainforest trees from Africa (see www.ghostforest.org) National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Egyptian Child Mummy, glass sculpture on 111 plates, Egyptian Galleries, The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Permanent Collection
Self-portrait reproduced in The Fear Index by Robert Harris, published by Random House
Former Exhibitions:
2010 – 2012 Ghost Forest installation (www.ghostforest.org), lawn of Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
2011 Solo show including film and sculpture of the Egyptian Child Mummy, The Cast Gallery, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (can now be seen by appointment at Oxford University’s Medical Sciences Department, South Parks Rd, Oxford)
March – August, 2011, ‘Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life’, The Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London
2009 Ghost Forest installation, Thorvaldsens Plads, Copenhagen, coinciding with the UN Climate Change Conference
2009 Ghost Forest installation, Trafalgar Square, London
2009 Breathing In Solo show featuring the artist’s journey to the most and least polluted places on earth, Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London
2008 Solo show, Waterhouse and Dodd, Cork Street, London
2007 Royal College of Art Society, Thames and Hudson Award
2007 Winner, Polly Campbell Award, Jerwood Space, London
2007 Solo show, Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons
2006 Fleming Collection, Berkeley Street, London
2006 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
2006 Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
2005 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition
2005 Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh 2004 Winchester Festival of Science and Art
2004 Modern Art Oxford
2003 Topologies of the Mind in collaboration with Dr Mark Lythgoe, Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London W1
Group shows London, Edinburgh, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, New York, Palm Beach
Collections
Ashmolean Museum
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Royal Veterinary College, Hertfordshire, UK
Exeter College, University of Oxford
Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen University
Laurence Graff
Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Royal Bank of Scotland
Wellcome Trust, London
Geoffrey and Caroline de Jager
Publications/Television/Radio
2007 – 2012: Ghost Forest press/television coverage, see www.ghostforest.org
2012: press coverage Life Lines exhibition
2011 TV/radio/press on permanent installation of Egyptian child mummy to the Ashmolean
2008 May “Ghost Toddler from Ancient Egypt on Show as Art,” The Daily Telegraph
2008 May Profile ‘Unravelled’ solo show, BBC Television News
2007 July “The cleanest place on earth – and the dirtiest”, The Guardian
2007 May “New world of interiors, when science meets art”, The Times
2007 Feb “Artist Gets Inside the Human Body,” BBC
2006 Dec Cover, The Lancet magazine
Collaborations
Dr Renata Weller, Department of Clinical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, Herts
Dr Alexy Karenowska, physicist, Magdalen College, Oxford
Dr Chris Lintott, astrophysicist, Oxford University
Dr Andrew Mitchell, Director, The Global Canopy Programme, John Kreb’s Field Station, Oxford
Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director, Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, University of Oxford
Professor Fritz Vollrath, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Dr William Hawthorne, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Ntim Gyakari, former curator, Herbarium, Kumasi, Ghana
Ian Curtis, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Dr Helen Whitehouse, Curator, Egyptian Collection, The Ashmolean
Dr Yiannis Ventikos, University of Oxford (Bio-fluidics)
Dr Mark Lythgoe, University College London
Dr David Thomas, University College London
Dr Milton Mermikides, Royal Academy of Music Professor Frank Smith, Aberdeen University
Dr Stephen Golding and Dr Chris Alvey, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn and Dr Marcella Ucci, University College London
Dr Barbara Hart, L’Elziere, France (dust mite project)
Dr Jill Cainey, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (atmospheric research: Global Warming installation)
Previous career in journalism
1994-98 Hong Kong
1992-93 Editor, ELLE
1989-92 Magazine Editor, The Observer
1986-88 News Editor, The Observer
1984-86 Editor PHS, The Times
1982-84 The Daily Telegraph
1980 Journalist of the Year, Scotland
Lectures/Talks
2012 Panelist, The Research of Art and Science, Wolfson College, Oxford University
2012 Speaker New York University Institute, Abu Dhabi
2011 Speaker Oxford Alumni Weekend, Exeter College
2009 June Speaker, Crucible Programme, NESTA
2009 May Talk on Air Pollution, The Wellcome Trust, London
2009 May Speaker, ‘Art and Science’, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
2009 Feb Speaker, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Forum, ‘Creativity: Interaction with the Material World’, University of Oxford