Diana Palmer’s paintings address the relationship between a figure and its environment. Recent works depict dancing plants or people, morphing into or emerging from a landscape. Conveying movement, the pieces capture observed and abstracted fragments of light, atmospheric changes or physical gestures.
Whether inspired by a memory of a place or a photograph, the process of painting is a playful interpretation of spatial relations. Performing figures may be visible, or else the artist's perception of her surroundings may be the sole subject matter.
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Born London, 1985
Lives and works in Deptford, London
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Grow, Flow, Deptford Does Art, London
2013 Fragments Together, The Peckham Pelican, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
March 2020 The Spring Auction, The Auction Collective online
November 2019 Perpetual Shift, The Koppel Project, Soho, London
October 2019 The Crossover, Candid Arts, Islington, London
June 2019 Element. Void, The Icing Room, Walthamstow, London
May 2019 Crimson & Friends, Brighton & Hove High School, Brighton Festival Fringe
2018-2019 4Z123, The Icing Room, Walthamstow, London
2018 SFSA Painting Open, Deptford, London
2017 SFSA Painting Open, Deptford, London
2017 Light and Structure, The Brookmill, part of Deptford X, London
2017 m e l t, The Icing Room, Walthamstow, London
2016 F.R.E.E., Sheffield
2013 aLIVE Urban Art Show, Vibe Gallery, London
2013 The Presence of Composition, The Gallery Cafe, London
2012 Candid Berlin, Universitat der Kunste Berlin
2011 Camberwell BA Degree Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2010 Collaboration with The Found Art Collective, Hackney Wicked Festival, London
2010 Cut, The Biscuit Factory, London
Residencies / awards
2018 Trélex Residency, Switzerland
2016 Shortlisted for Next Wave, RBSA
2011 Longlisted for Jerwood Painting Fellowship
Private collections: UK, Italy, Switzerland, Uganda
Education
2008-2011 BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2005-2008 BA (Joint Hons) English and History of Art, University of Birmingham
2007 Summer Foundation, Slade School of Fine Art, London
All images on this website are copyright of the artist unless credited otherwise
Beginning of a landscape (private collection)