Katrina Palmer

Palmer was born in London.{{Cite web |title=Unexpected views: Katrina Palmer, National Gallery Artist in Residence 2024 |url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/unexpected-views-katrina-palmer |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=National Gallery}} She studied philosophy and English literature at the University of Sussex (1986–89). She then worked in the publishing industry for a decade. She gained an undergraduate sculpture degree at Central Saint Martins (2001–04); and received an MA (2004–06) and a PhD (2012) from the Royal College of Art. In 2024 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.{{Cite web |title=Dr Katrina Palmer (1967) |url=https://contemporaryartsociety.org/artists/katrina-palmer |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=contemporaryartsociety.org |language=en}}

End Matter was a multi-platform project consisting of The Loss Adjusters, a site-specific installation and audio walk around some of the Isle of Portland (April–June 2015); "The Quarryman's Daughters", a broadcast on BBC Radio 4; and End Matter, a book. The project "attempted to account for the systematic removal of huge quantities of stone from Portland, an island off the Dorset coast".{{Cite news |last=Langley |first=Patrick |date=2015-08-18 |title=Katrina Palmer |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/katrina-palmer |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=Frieze |language=en |issue=173 |issn=0962-0672}}{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Gilda |date=2015-09-01 |title=Katrina Palmer |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/katrina-palmer-2-213376/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Katrina Palmer: End Matter |url=https://artreview.com/review-katrina-palmer-end-matter-2015/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=artreview.com |language=en}} The book End Matter is "a non-book, consisting of appendices, acknowledgements, an epilogue, an index, a map, some postscripts… all the written notes and paraphernalia that surrounds a written work, but not the actual main body text".{{Cite news |last=Sawyer |first=Miranda |date=2015-04-26 |title=Katrina Palmer: the artist who has mined a rich seam of nothingness |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/26/katrina-palmer-artist-mined-nothingness-artangel-open |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}

Palmer was the National Gallery in London's 2024 Artist in Residence.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-20 |title=Katrina Palmer announced as The National Gallery's 2024 Artist in Residence |url=https://www.vingtseptmagazine.com/post/katrina-palmer-announced-as-the-national-gallery-s-2024-artist-in-residence |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Vingt Sept |language=en}}

{{As of|2015}}, she lived in London, with her husband and son.

• The Loss Adjusters, a site-specific installation and audio walk, Isle of Portland, April–June 2015{{Cite web |date=2015-05-20 |title=End Matter: Katrina Palmer explores the source of Portland stone |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/end-matter-katrina-palmer-explores-the-source-of-portland-stone/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Apollo Magazine |language=en-US}}
• The Necropolitan Line, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, December 2015 – February 2016.{{Cite web |date=2015-12-14 |title=Mind The Doors: Onboard Katrina Palmer's Necropolitan Line |url=https://thequietus.com/culture/art/katrina-palmer-the-necropolitan-line-henry-moore-institute-leeds-review/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}
• What's Already Going On, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, January–March 2023{{Cite web |title=Burlington Contemporary - Reviews |url=https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/katrina-palmer-whats-already-going-on |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Burlington Contemporary |language=en}}
• The Touch Report, National Gallery, London, December 2024 – March 2025{{Cite news |last=Cumming |first=Laura |date=2024-12-16 |title=The week in art: Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures; Katrina Palmer: The Touch Report – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/16/jeff-wall-life-in-pictures-white-cube-bermondsey-review-katrina-palmer-the-touch-national-gallery |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}

• The Dark Object. Semina No. 5. London: Book Works, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1906012229}}. Second edition of 1000 copies. Third edition, 2023; edition of 1000 copies.
• The Fabricator's Tale. London: Book Works, 2014. {{ISBN|9781906012519}}. Edition of 1500 copies.
• End Matter. London: Book Works; Artangel, 2015. {{ISBN|9781906012731}}. Edition of 1500 copies.
• Black Slit. London: Book Works, 2023. {{ISBN|978-1-912570-29-4}}. Edition of 1000 copies.
• The Touch Report. London: Book Works, 2024. {{ISBN|9781912570355}}. Edition of 1000 copies.

• 2014: Co-winner, Award for Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation. A £50,000 award.{{Cite web |date=2014-11-14 |title=2014 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award Winners Announced |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/paul-hamlyn-foundation-gave-away-a-lot-of-money-last-night-168094 |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Artnet |language=en-US}}

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• {{Official website|https://katrinapalmerartist.com}}

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Category:21st-century English women artists

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