Riding Switch
The images and text for this body of work will be uploaded in approx two weeks.
pushing the blood back into my fingers
This recent series of paintings and works on paper represents a conclusion, and a new beginning. It comes at the end of a three year period when Kate Palmer focused exclusively on drawing.
deathtalk - now that I can no longer touch you
The project has two components, a series of works on paper ‘now that I can no longer touch you’, and a text piece ‘deathtalk’, which is ‘a visceral account of the death of my mother and the effects of grief and loss’. It explores the rhythms and complexities of bereavement.
everything happens
The title of the show is from the French tout arrive, used by Manet as a letterhead, which in colloquial use conveys the idea: I didn’t think it possible! ‘For me it suggests how by keeping the work moving on in the ordinariness of daily practice - a repeated negotiation between what I want and what the work wants - the extraordinary can happen.’