LONDON.- Pangolin London announced the representation of British artist Angela Palmer, whose unique mapping process has created deeply inquisitive artworks that interrogate their subjects from the inside-out. She is set to have her first solo show at the gallery in Spring 2023.

Palmer's subjects are wide ranging – from her work with Egyptian mummies, first seen in her 2011 exhibition Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy, to her 2018 portrait of Eclipse, the undefeated Georgian racehorse sired in the bloodline of an estimated 95% of modern racehorses.

Palmer's technical ability, too, is broad: the artist is as at-home working with American black walnut as she is in polished bronze, demonstrated in her 2015 work Lifejacket. Palmer's signature technique is, however, something wholly her own. Utilising modern imaging technology, Palmer reveals the internal topographies of her subjects which she then charts with the aid of an electric drill head. After precise engraving across multiple of panes of glass, careful layers are built up to reveal a three-dimensional portrait suspended in space.

In 2009, Palmer attracted major coverage for her work Ghost Forest, installed at Trafalgar Square in London. For her installation, Palmer sourced 10 stumps of commercially logged virgin forest from Ghana – an arresting visual statement on the impact of deforestation. In 2010, the work travelled to Copenhagen during the World Climate Change Summit, after which Ghost Forest was installed at the Oxford Museum of Natural History before finding its permanent home at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

In 2015, Palmer was allowed unprecedented access to create a body of work responding to Formula 1, culminating in her exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Adrenalin. In collaboration with Renault Sport F1, Palmer deconstructed the RS27 engine to interrogate the intricacies of what exactly made the RS27 the most successful engine in the sport.

A selection of her Formula 1 work will be featured at the Guggenheim, Bilbao, as part of the upcoming exhibition Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, showing from April 2022.

In 2020, Palmer produced a sculpture capturing the Coronavirus particle, on a scale of eight million times its actual size. Attracting coverage by BBC news, the work was unveiled by Professor Sarah Gilbert, pioneer of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine, at the Oxford Museum of Natural History.

Palmer has also turned her gaze upon herself, producing multiple self portraits with the aid of MRI imaging at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, University College Hospital London and Aberdeen University. It was this body of work that appealed to novelist Robert Harris, who reached out to Palmer to feature her works in his 2011 novel The Fear Index. Palmer's work features in the 2022 adaptation of the novel, currently showing on Sky Atlantic.

Angela Palmer (b.1957) started her career as a journalist, first working as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph in 1982 and later becoming News Editor at The Observer (1986-1988). Palmer progressed to become Editor-in-Chief of The Observer (1989-1992) before moving to Elle Magazine as Editor-in-Chief (1992-1993). In 2002, Palmer studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she received the Fitzgerald Prize for her work, before continuing her studies with a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art.

Palmer's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, and The Science Museum, London, which holds her work The Sphere that Changed the World (Coronavirus) and will include it in a major exhibition later this year.