About
Angela Palmer is represented by Pangolin Gallery in Kings Cross, London. Palmer has sculptures in the permanent collections of The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, The National Portrait Gallery in Scotland, and a major installation, The Ghost Forest, in The National Botanic Garden of Wales. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide. She is an award-winning graduate of The Royal College of Art and was a scholar at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University.
Mapping is at the core of her work and using MRI, CT and other scanning methods, she has adapted a technique to show objects floating as three-dimensional drawings in glass cubes. These include her brain, an Egyptian child mummy in the Ashmolean Museum and the head of the world’s most famous racehorse Eclipse. She has recreated an area of space using Nasa data for the Kepler mission. Palmer has also created lifesize in glass the most successful Formula 1 engine, the V8 RS27, used by Sebastian Vettel in four consecutive F1 world championships. Her F1 inspired work and engraved portraits were exhibited in London in collaboration with Sir Jackie Stewart's charity, Race Against Dementia.
Biography
05 - 07
Royal College of Art, London, MA
02 - 05
Bachelor of Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
92 - 93
Editor-in-chief, ELLE magazine UK
89 - 92
Magazine Editor, The Observer
86 - 88
News Editor, The Observer
84 - 86
Editor PHS, The Times
Awards
Natural Stone Arts, Award for Art in Stone
Highly Distinguished, Ruth Bouchard Self-Portrait Awards
Royal College of Art Society Thames & Hudson Award
University of Oxford, Fitzgerald Prize
Journalist of the Year, Scotland
Runner up Catherine Pakenham Award for Women Journalists
Permanent Collections
The Science Museum, London, UK
The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington, USA
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Wellcome Trust, London, UK
The Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
The Renault Art Collection, Paris, France
Royal Bank of Scotland
Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Kenneth Clark Art Collection, University of Oxford
National Botanic Gardens of Wales
Royal Veterinary College
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Omer Koc
Lawrence Graff
Nadia Swarovski
David and Serenella Ciclitira
Dara O'Briain
Exhibitions
Current
Deadly Six: Oxford's Battle with the Microbial World, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
2023
Deep Time: Uncovering our Hidden Past, Solo exhibition, Pangolin Gallery, London
2022 - 24
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine, Science Museum, London
2022
Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
2021
The Sphere that Changed the World, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
2019
Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver unveiling, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
Ceaseless Motion: William Harvey's experiments in Circulation, The Royal College of Physicians, London
2017
Race Against Time, a collaboration with Sir Jackie Stewart's charity, Race Against Dementia, London
2016
From Rembrandt to the Selfie, tri-national exhibition of self-portraits, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
2016
The National Portrait Gallery, Scotland
2015 – 16
A Modern Adventure, the Renault Art Collection Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing and the Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2015
Anthropocene, The Fine Art Society, London
2014
Adrenalin, solo show, The Fine Art Society, London
2014
What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, The Fine Art Society, London
2014
Brain of the Artist, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
2013
Searching for Goldilocks, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington
2013
Natural Selection, The Fine Art Society, London
2012
Life Lines, solo show, Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2012
Carving in Britain, The Fine Art Society, London
2012
Self-portrait, frontispiece, The Fear Index by Robert Harris
2011
Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy, solo show, The Cast Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2011
Scope Basel, Switzerland
2010 – 12
Ghost Forest, installation, Museum of Natural History, Oxford
2009
Ghost Forest, installation, Thorvaldsens Plads, Copenhagen
2009
Ghost Forest, installation, Trafalgar Square, London
2009
Breathing In, solo show, Wellcome Collection, London
2008
Unravelled, solo show, Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2008
Abu Dhabi, London and Palm Beach, Florida art fairs
2007
Inside Out: Body Imaging Sculptures, solo show, Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons, London
2006
Self Portrait, Divided Selves, The Scottish Self-portrait from the 17th Century to the present, The Fleming Collection, London
2006
Self Portrait, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
2005
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2005
Solo show, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
2005
Winchester Festival of Science and Art
2005
Group Show, Modern Art Oxford
2005
Director's Chair Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
"It is a compelling combination of science and art. Palmer’s sculpture evokes the spirit of modern medical research but also conveys the beauty and mystery of this most vital human organ…In spite of the scientific objectivity of its source, this is an extremely intimate work of art."
