Katrina Palmer

Born in 1967, Katrina Palmer is an artist best known for her investigations of sculptural materiality.

She studied sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art, London, where she completed her PhD.

Palmer challenges what sculpture can be, often utilising live readings, site specific recordings and constructed environments. Her resulting unsettling installations examine presence, absence, memory and death.

In 2014 she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for artists, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award. Her works have been featured in several exhibitions, including Tate Britain and Hayward Gallery in London, plus a solo commission for Artangel. She is currently a tutor at the Ruskin School of Art.

Katrina Palmer lives and works in London, England.