Artist
Angela Palmer is represented by Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND. Visit the artist’s website at www.angelaspalmer.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/Awards
2012 ‘Ghost Forest’ The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire
2012 Life Lines, solo show, Waterhouse and Dodd, Cork Street, London
2011 Egyptian Child Mummy sculpture, Ashmolean Museum (permanent collection)
2011 ‘Unwrapped’: an Egyptian Child Mummy, Cast Gallery Ashmolean Museum
2010-2012 ‘Ghost Forest’ installation, lawn of Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
2009 ‘Ghost Forest’ installation, Thorvaldsens Plads, Copenhagen, coinciding with the UN Climate Change Conference
2009 ‘Ghost Forest’ installation, Trafalgar Square, London
2009 ‘Breathing In’, 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 Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London W1
Group shows London, Edinburgh, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, New York, Palm Beach
Collections
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
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
Publications/Television/Radio
2009- 2011 Ghost Forest has been covered by a large number of publications and television stations. Much of this can be found in the News & Videos section of this website: http://www.ghostforest.org/news-videos/.
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 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 Renata Weller, Department of Clinical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, Herts
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
2009 Dec Speaker, International School, Copenhagen
2009 Nov Speaker, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London
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
