Waterhouse & Dodd to host Angela Palmer's solo ' Unravelled '

Written by Jonathan Butterfield Friday, 20 January 2012 20:23

 

London - Angela Palmer’s work represents a meeting point between science and art.  ‘Unravelled’ traces the journey of an Egyptian mummy child from the The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to the scanning theatres of the John Radcliffe hospital where the mummy child underwent a series of MRI scans. This intriguing journey through its bandages unearthed an enlarged head and a delicate body removed of various organs. These scans then became the source material behind Angela Palmer’s quest to compose a portrait of this child. This led Angela to re-trace the steps of this child back to Cairo and the Fayum desert in Egypt. There Angela found new faces and lives which she brings into her exhibition through, stills, film and glass sculptures.

The focus of this exhibition will be the work produced from the mummy child. Angela’s glass sculptures comprise of multiple sheets of museum glass which carry either ink or engraved lines upon each sheet, which when viewed as a whole supply a 3-Dimensional illusion of form. Even the handling of her media becomes anatomically entwined with its subject matter through the use of a dentists drill to engrave fine lines into the glass. There is a certain vulnerability in her portraits, not least because of the glass and fact that all the lines are hand drawn. The image disappears when viewed from the side, further alluding to the transience of the human body.
 
Angela has exhibited widely since completely her BA at the Ruskin, University of Oxford where she first came in to contact with the anatomy schools during her Fine Art degree. She recently completed her MA at the Royal College of Art and her work has since found itself very appropriately placed in collections such as The Wellcome Trust in London.
 
Angela’s striking creations will be re-united with the mummy child itself which has been kindly loaned to Waterhouse & Dodd for the duration of her exhibition. We look forward to the exciting observations the Director of Modern Art Oxford, Andrew Nairne will shed in his introduction to the exhibition which will feature in the forthcoming catalogue which accompanies ‘Unravelled’.  On exhibition 21 May through 13 June, 2008.
 
A fully illustrated colour catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition. Visit our website www.modbritart.com  for further information about the artist. Waterhouse & Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND - Tel 020 7734 7800

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