2024 Text commission for Katrina’s Palmer’s Catalogue at the National Gallery on the Occasion of Palmer’s Artist in Residence 

A National Gallery publication will accompany the project. This will be the first survey of Palmer’s career to date and will include a newly commissioned essay by Oreet Ashery exploring the central themes in the artist’s practice. A new text by Palmer herself reflects on the process and outcomes of her residency, as she engages with the multiple representations of violence and physical tension on display in the collection through the lens of the Gallery’s institutional protocols.

‘This text was written during consecutive sunrises, the dark bedroom

illuminated only by the colour-blend light filtering through

the square window frame. The window became a polysemous

image, open to dialogue, matching the mood of Katrina Palmer’s

work‘.

Please request a PDF of the 4000 words text for educational purposes from the artist