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 W1S 2JT
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LATEST EXHIBITION: LIFE LINES
Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND, www.waterhousedodd.com, 24 May – 15 June, 2012
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Lifelines on the BBC “World at One”.
Ashmolean Museum Permanent Collection
A Glass sculpture of the museum’s Egyptian child mummy, recreated on 111 sheets of glass, was unveiled in the museum’s new galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present day Sudan) on Saturday 26 November. A film showing a journey of the child’s body through CT scans was also unveiled.
FORMER EXHIBITIONS
Cast Gallery, Ashmolean Museum to March 2012:
Solo exhibition of work devoted to the Egyptian child mummy. Exhibits include a glass sculpture of the child showing him from three angles; a film of his homeland and his burial site in the Faiyum, south of Cairo; a cast of the child’s head and toes; linen wrappings wound into bales and dyed according to the ancient methods and plant colours of the Faiyum; and sand retrieved from the child mummy’s burial site. The exhibition can now be seen by appointment at Oxford University’s Medical Sciences Department, South Parks Road, Oxford.
Ghost Forest, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales, SA32 8HG
www.gardenofwales.org.uk
A major installation of 10 mighty rainforest tree stumps, most with their roots intact, which the artist brought from the forests of Africa to Europe in a major logistical exercise to highlight deforestation and the threat to the world’s dwindling natural resources. Dedicated website: www.ghostforest.org to see Gallery/Press/Film etc
Ghost Forest’s former locations:
Trafalgar Square, London
16-22 November 2009
Thorvaldsens Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
7-18 December 2009
Lawn of the Pitt Rivers and Musuem of Natural History, Oxford
July 2010 – July 2012
Breathing In, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
20 October – 22 November 2009
BBC film of the project: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8332473.stm
A solo exhibition of the artist’s journey to the most polluted and cleanest places on the Earth: Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, and Cape Grim on the northwest tip of Tasmania. Exhibits included the white uniforms worn for a day in both locations, face cleansers that reveal dirt from the atmosphere, air collected in pre-evacuated glass flasks, film, photographs, coal, and a apir of abandoned child’s sandals still encrusted with coal. The flasks from this show were also exhibited in the Wellcome Collection’s show entitled Dirt: The Filthy Realtiy of Everyday Life, March 24 – August 31, 2011
Unravelled, Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND
21 May to 12 June 2008
Website: www.modbritart.com
A solo show largely dedicated to the ‘unravelling’ of an Egyptian mummy loaned by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Exhibited alongside the work inspired by CT scans of the Ashmolean Mummy were a series of self-portraits based on MRI scans of the artist.
International Centre for Life
Times Square, Scotswood Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4EP
June 2007
Film and a series of glass self-portraits
The Great Exhibition 2007
Royal College of Art Final Show
Kensington Gardens , London
15 to 29 June 2007
The artist’s Final Show at the RCA highlighted air as the precious commodity of the future. In April 2007, the artist travelled 500 miles south west of Beijing to Linfen in Shanxi Province, which according to official records is the most polluted place on earth. She then went directly to Cape Grim in the North West tip of Tasmania, home to the purest air and water in the world. Her exhibition featured a variety of media generated from these locations – film, photography, found objects as well as glass flasks containing air from both places, and jars with river and puddle samples which have now been analysed by scientists in the UK. Two identical white outfits she wore in both locations were on show alongside vials containing the water she extracted after shampooing her hair.
Inside Out
Inside Out: Body Imaging Sculptures by Angela Palmer
Qvist Gallery, Hunterian Museum. The Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2
30 January – 20 May 2007
Website: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk
A solo exhibition of glass self-portraits and film. The exhibit which inspired the artist’s work – a scientific model constructed a by the Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin – was loaned by the History of Science Museum in Oxford for the show. Dorothy Hodgkin drew the electron density contour images of the penicillin molecule on horizontal sheets of Perspex. The artist adapted this method by drawing details of the scanned human form on multiple sheets of glass, presented in three dimensions on a vertical plane. http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/archive/inside-out-body-imaging-sculptures-by-angela-palmer/?searchterm=palmer
Divided Selves: The Scottish Self-Portrait from the 17th Century to the Present
The Fleming Collection, Berkeley Street, London W1
20th June – 2nd September, 2006
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
22nd April – 3rd June, 2006
Brain Awareness Week Exhibit
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
15th March – 16th April 2006
Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk
Glass engravings of the artist’s brain derived from MRI scans were shown in this exhibition.
Summer Exhibition,
The Royal Academy,
2005
Topologies of the Mind: Angela Palmer and Mark Lythgoe
The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1S 2JT
29 November – 19 December 2003
Website: http://www.mlythgoe.com/ApalmerMlythgoe.htm
A show of work created in collaboration with neurophysiologist Dr Mark Lythgoe