STEPHEN PALMER
contact: stephendotpalmer[at]virgindotnet
EXHIBITING
2010
Business Collectors Network, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne. Group show celebrating the end of the second year of the Business Collectors Network, www.sponsorsclub.org.uk
2009
A room inside them, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne. Group show as part of the Northern Print Biennale 2009, www.vane.org.uk www.northernprint.org.uk
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London. Curated by Vane directors Paul Stone and Christopher Yeats, exhibition of seventeen artists from the UK, Europe and USA whose work is concerned with the construction of new and/or personal narratives, www.contemporaryart.org
Troubles: online programme of French and British artists (during February). See www.saisonvideo.com
Business Collectors Network Exhibition, Newcastle upon Tyne, see www.sponsorsclub.org.uk for more about Business Collectors Network.
2008
The Dead and Alive songs, 7” vinyl record/screenprint launch and solo exhibition, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, www.vane.org.uk
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.
Deneside Infants School, Seaham in partnership with artist
Sneha Solanki
2003
Northern Print Studio/Solution Group Residency, 2000.
Northern Arts Study and Stay Award, 1999.
COLLECTIONS
Government Art Collection, www.gac.culture.gov.uk
Business Collectors Network Collection
Private collections in UK, Canada and Denmark
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