2024 Artist in Residence: Katrina Palmer Exhibition Catalogue

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Accompanies the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 11 December 2024–2 March 2025.

‘In a generation, just a few artists exist who have the ability to revivify what art can be. Katrina Palmer is one such artist. She considers how we humans use objects to test our humanity, and with that reveals the very inhumanity of who we have been.’  Lisa Le Feuvre

Katrina Palmer (b. 1967) is a London-based artist whose investigations of sculptural materiality often explore histories of absence within landscapes and institutional spaces. Her practice encompasses sculpture, writing, audio environments, performance, site-specificity, video and drawing. Palmer was selected as the 2024 National Gallery Artist in Residence, in partnership with Touchstones Rochdale. 

The first survey of Palmer’s career to date, this book includes a newly commissioned essay by Oreet Ashery exploring the central themes in the artist’s practice. A new text by Palmer herself reflects on the process and outcomes of her residency, as she engages with the multiple depictions of violence and physical tension on display in the collection through the lens of the Gallery’s institutional protocols. 

Authors

Oreet Ashery is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and a professor of contemporary art at the University of Oxford.

Annabel Bai Jackson is the Dorset Curatorial Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London.

Sarah Hodgkinson is Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Touchstones Rochdale.

Priyesh Mistry is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London.