STEPHEN PALMER                              
contact:
stephendotpalmer[at]virgindotnet
EXHIBITING
Next exhibition:
The Daily News presented as part of Outcasting season 4, an online moving image gallery, alongside works by Martijn Hendriks, Chris Webster, Marianna & Daniel O'Reilly, Ronee Hui, Birkbeck & Duffy, Niyaz Saghari, Clyde Forrester, Karen Ingham, Kika Nicolela and Patrizia Monzani. 1 August – 30 September 2008. See www.outcasting.org

That’s the story of my life presented as part of Harker Herald, billboard project, Waygood, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 2008. See www.waygood.org

2008
Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium. Online exhibition of recent video curated by NewMediaArtProjectNetwork: Cologne. See February 2008 programme at
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
2007
Worthless little tokens, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne. Solo exhibition of recent paintings, see www.vane.org.uk
The Consequence, LowSalt Gallery, Glasgow and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Video screening events curated by Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll, see www.consequencescreening.org
Mix Cooltura/Random Mix, Trafacka Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, www.randomartists.org and www.kulturajinak.com/randomix
2006    
Multiplus, Sideshow, Nottingham, www.sideshowonline.org
2005    
Go find the WMDs, Multiplus, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sheena Macrae, Stephen Palmer, Joe Woodhouse, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, www.waygood.org
If all the world were paper and all the sea were ink..., Northern Print Studio, North Shields.
2004    
Practice, High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Thermo04: Editions, The Lowry, Salford.
Multiplus Reloaded, Saltburn Art Gallery, Saltburn.
2003     
Tuesday is cerise, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Vacant, Reg Vardy Gallery. Sunderland.
...Not just for Christmas, Northern Print Studio, North Shields.
2002
Monster Bags, 2c Albert Road, Portsmouth.                    
Sack, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne.            
Shopping, Comme Ca Gallery @ Debenhams Windows, Manchester.    
WO1, Washington Arts Centre, Washington.            
2001    
Wall, Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend.            
A Perfect World (once removed), University of Derby, Derby.
Stay, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
2000    
Losing the Plot, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne.            
Uninhabited, Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.                   
1999
Tonight we're gonna parquet like it's..., Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Cheers, British Lime Gallery, Santa Ana, USA.        
Cool Britannia, British Lime Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA.
1996    
Abstract Painting, The Clayton Gallery. Newcastle upon Tyne.
1994    
Getting United, United House, London.             
Drawing Open, Cheltenham.                  
1990    
Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester.               
 
CURATORIAL
...Not just for Christmas
Group show resulting from residency project with Northern Print and The Solution Group, North Shields.
Losing the Plot
Group show featuring the work of 9 artists in an empty 18th century building, Newcastle upon Tyne.     
Uninhabited
Co-curated with Joe Woodhouse and featuring Andrew MacDonald, Helen Smith, Ally Wallace and Tony Wiles, Newcastle upon Tyne.
 
PUBLICATIONS
Creative Minds, Review of Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland, Spring 2006. Cover featured
collaborative project with Sneha Solanki produced for Creative Partnerships residency at Deneside
Infants School, Seaham.

How Big is the Sky, 2006. Review of Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland projects.
 
Workplace, Art Editions North, 2005. Includes essay Stephen Palmer by Robert Blackson, curator Reg
Vardy Gallery, Sunderland.
 
Tuesday is cerise, Northumbria University Fine art Press, 2005. Includes essay whose Culture is it
Anyway by Helen Baker.
 
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2004    
Creative Partnerships residency at Deneside Infants School, Seaham in partnership with artist Sneha
Solanki
2003     
Northern Print Studio/Solution Group Residency
2000    
Northern Arts Study and Stay Award
 
COLLECTIONS
Government Art Collection, www.gac.culture.gov.uk
 
PROFESSIONAL
2004 - present
Member of Northern Print board of Directors, www.northernprint.org.uk
 
2006 - present
Member of AIR artist’s advisory group, see www.a-n.co.uk/AIR