As an artist I have worked alone and as part of a collaborative pairing with Giorgio Garippa. I am currently researching visits high-profile politicians made to the town where my father grew up (a council estate in east London) in the decade leading up to the institution of the Right to Buy. I am undertaking this research with an aim to produce a narrative-based art work in the near future.
As an artist I have worked alone and as part of a collaborative pairing with Giorgio Garippa. I am currently researching visits high-profile politicians made to the town where my father grew up (a council estate in east London) in the decade leading up to the institution of the Right to Buy. I am undertaking this research with an aim to produce a narrative-based art work in the near future.
In my past work I have used ‘poor’ materials to model financial data and to make interventions into the presentational spaces of financial institutions. The poor materials contrast with the often barely imaginable values of the banking and finance sector. They also contrast with the heroic abstractions pioneered by the neo-avant-garde which also strongly influence my interpretations of the data (and influence the forecourts of a thousand corporate HQs). By using financial data to generate sculptural forms and imagery I can reinvest these abstractions with an apparent, albeit fleeting, ‘content’ and, at the same time, give a tangible, experiential quality to these overwhelming values they purport to describe.
In a similar vein I have generated images by imposing financial data onto maps; using their grids I have plotted graphs which can then become ‘routes’. I have followed these dérive-like routes and, by documenting the sites marked by the points of the graph, created collages that use perspective against itself, thus reshaping the fabric of the City in the image of the data which reflects and affects it so greatly. With the piece, It’s The Economy, Stupid!, 2013, the original digital collage of images were further collaged as thousands of layered photocopies, giving the work a sculptural feel that is at odds with the normal experience of either images or data.
Oliver Palmer
http://oliverwilliampalmer.tumblr.com/
Education
2015 University of East London - PGCE
2013 Goldsmiths, University of London - MFA Fine Art (Merit)
2011 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London - PG Dip Fine Art (Distinction)
2007 Oxford Brookes University, Oxford - BA Hons Fine Art (First Class Degree)
Exhibitions
2019
#35 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP London, Gallery by the Pool, Southwark Park, London
2018
#34 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP London, Gallery by the Pool, Southwark Park, London
Designed Howlings: radical jokes and secrets, curated by SxRVxVE, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London
2017
D!N-DINS @ Art Licks Weekend, The Old Fire Station (Acme Studios), London
Drawing for Sculpture, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Lands End, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy *
Seven Counties Open, OVADA, Oxford *
Breaking Ground, The National Football Museum, Manchester *
2016
Din-Dins, group presentation/performance of participatory sound art, The Old Fire Station (Acme Studios), London
2015
Silent Movies, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London (selected by hArtslane Studios)
Liminal Space, Temporary Arts Project Space (T-A-P), Southend, Essex (part of a residency – Aug. 2015)
Extreme Land, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy (part of a residency – July 2015) *
3OWORKS3ODAYS, 12ø Collective, online publication
2014
Thinking / Drawing, Curious Projects, Eastbourne, East Sussex
Occupy Democracy, Samia Gallery via Parliament Square, London
Plot, Machines Room, Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, London
Hazard, Word of Warning, hÅb + The Larks, Manchester
Proposals archive included alongside The Residency, King's College, London *
AIDD Launch Event, hArtslane Studios, London
Studio. Tomorrow. Buy me things like machines. Showspace, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (run by East Street Arts)
2013
Goldsmiths MFA Show 2013, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Joya: Arte + Ecologia, Almeria, Spain
2012
Peckham Open 2012, Peckham Space, London
Unhinged Festival, Electric Brixton, London
Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show 2012, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2011
PG Dip. Final Exhibition 2011, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Cable Street, St. Georges Hall, Cable Street, London
A Show in the Dark, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
PG Dip. Interim Show 2011, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Prize 2011, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
F M T (part II), Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea Postcard Auction, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
MYSPACE, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2010
Legacy I, L.I.U., Salmon Court, Formans Smokehouse Gallery, Hackney, London
The Big Society, Space Station Sixty Five, London
Silent Auction, OVADA, Oxford
War and the Body, Blackall Studios, London *
A Moving Exhibition (part III), Wilson Williams Gallery, London
Contemporary Translation in Suprematism, Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston Super-Mare
Dead Time and Negative Space, Tra'la @ Goodenough College, London
Minimalism Massimo, The Gallery at Willesden Green, London
2009
My Mind Is The Only Thing I Know Really Exists, Menier Gallery, London
Silence, Exile, and Cunning, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford
Now You See It, Notfamousyet, Oxford
Not Outer Space, Frunt @ Nexus Art Café, Manchester
2008
The Dreaming Spires, OVADA Project Space, Gloucester Green, Oxford
Pontoon: Art Exhibition in, on & over The River Thames, Oxford
Geography, The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Obsessions, Modern Art Oxford
2007
The Nightfair Before Christmas, OVADA, Oxford
The Oxford Arts Festival, The Jam Factory, Oxford *
Spark @ The Fireplace Gallery, 103 St. Clements Street, Oxford
Oxford Brookes University Fine Art Degree Show 2007, Oxford
Aspirin, Modern Art Oxford
Residencies
2015
Breaking Ground, former site of Bradford Park Avenue FC (now an archaeological site), Bradford – an Arts Council England funded project developed in partnership with the National Football Museum Manchester (September 2015) *
Liminal Space, Temporary Arts Project Space (TAP), Southend, Essex (August 2015)
Default 15: Extreme Land 2015 , Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy (July 2015) *
2013
Joya: Arte + Ecologia, Almeria, Spain
2012
Merz Barn Project, Ambleside, Cumbria
Speaking engagements / Teaching
2016
Photography Teacher, Kings Langley, Herts.
2015
Photography Teacher, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Micro Teach presentation, Barking and Dagenham College, Essex
Default15: Extreme Land 2015 , Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy *
Microteach presentation, Desborough College, Berkshire
Micro Teach presentation, Woking College, Surrey
Micro Teach presentation, Bellerbys College, Oxford
AIDD (Action Intervention and Daily Deployment) Sunday Brunch Discussion, AIDD Collective, London
Is there still a place for drawing as a tool for thought in our digital age? Thinking / Drawing Salon, Curious Projects, Eastbourne
2014
Artists' Talk (Giorgio Garippa and Oliver Palmer), The National Maritime Museum, London *
Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Havering College, Essex
Teaching Placement (BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design), Havering College, Essex (Sept. 2014 - present)
Micro Teach presentation, Basingstoke College of Technology, Hampshire
Visiting Tutor (BA Fine Art), Oxford Brookes University (May 2014)
Micro Teach presentation, Amersham and Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire
Micro Teach presentation, Havering College, Essex
Visiting Tutor (HNC/HND Fine Art), Barking and Dagenham College, Essex (Nov. 2013 – Mar. 2014)
2013
Visiting Tutor (Foundation Diploma), Reading College, Berkshire (Dec. 2013)
Cover Teacher (AS / A-Level Film Studies and AS / A-Level Media Studies), Aylesbury College, Bucks (Oct. - Dec. 2013)
Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Barking and Dagenham College
Postcards From Utopia: John Hinde's Re-imagining of the Worker's Holiday in Pecha Kucha in More Utopia!'s Utopia Forum, Goldsmiths, University of London
Art as Truth-Procedure, Goldsmiths, University of London
2012
Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Goldsmiths, University of London
On The (Re)construction of a Universal Subjectivity, Goldsmiths, University of London
2011
Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Goldsmiths, University of London
Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Chelsea College of Art and Design
2010
War and the Body, Blackall Studios, London *
Curatorial
F M T (part II), Chelsea College of Art and Design • Silence, Exile, and Cunning, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford * • Spark @ The Fireplace Gallery, 103 St. Clements Street, Oxford • Oxford Brookes University Fine Art Degree Show 2007, Oxford • Aspirin, Modern Art Oxford
Recent Shortlists
The Pier Commission, The Exchange, Erith, London (the final stage of selection culminated in a public vote) (Aug. 2017)
Urban Hinterland (residency), ramoslübbert, Arnis, Germany (July 2017)
West Yorkshire Archaeological Services Project, East Street Arts, Leeds (June 2017)
Priors Hall Park Public Artwork Commission, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Corby, Northamptonshire (Dec. 2016) *
Links
http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/whatson/breaking-ground-art-archaeology-and-mythology
http://make8elieve.com
http://www.12ocollective.com/#!previousprojects/cpg5
http://www.wordofwarning.org/archive/2014-hazard/ongoing/
http://www.warandmedia.org/war-and-the-body-exhibition/
http://thepoolexhibition.com/Oliver-Palmer
http://www.artlicks.com/events/1287/legacy-i
www.notfamousyet.co.uk/home/2009/8/4/the-show-stealer.html
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/history_heritage/1161382.ASPIRIN__Brookes_Student_Art__Modern_Art_Oxford/
Publications
Gabie, Neville and Wood, Jason 2016: Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology & Mythology, Manchester: Axis Projects Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9554825-6-4)
Amin, Heba and Girelli, Francesca 2017: Extreme Land: Apulia, Italy: Ramdom
Make8elieve #13: Graphs, Charts & Grids pp. 134, 144–145, 176–177. 260–261 (digital: previously available at make8believe.com)
Collections
The National Media Museum, Bradford *
The National Football Museum, Manchester *
The University of Bradford *
Private collection, London
Ms. A. Bowron, Oxford
NB: * indicates collaborations with Giorgio Garippa