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Stephen Palmer

Stephen Palmer

www.stephenpalmer.org.uk

Reviews

Ally Wallace, Multi Module [29 April 2008]

Exhibited in one of the old classrooms at Scotland Street School Museum, a Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed building south of the Clyde (the last one he worked on apparently), Multi Module is a ceiling height floor-based sculpture. It is shown  Read on…

Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow
12 April - 5 May 2008

Sarah Carne: I Love my Yugo [30 September 2004]

Artist’s cars: often cheap, sometimes clapped out, rarely stylish, and usually unloved. Sarah Carne loves hers though. I Love my Yugo is her homage to the Yugo 45A she inherited from her parents. It’s a road  Read on…

Liverpool Biennial, 18–26 September

Paul Rooney: Songs and Routines [30 May 2003]

Life can be drab, tedious and sometimes boring. The world portrayed in Paul Rooney's video works and songs is one where, on the face of it, not much happens. Paul Rooney used to record his own songs as part of the band Rooney. Five early songs are  Read on…

Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
9 April – 16 May

Remain in Light [4 April 2003]

It is not unusual for artists to look to their heroes for inspiration. The three artists in 'Remain in Light' do just that: their own art at once a celebration and a pastiche of the ideas and formulas employed by their art heroes. Using the language  Read on…

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
31 January – 19 March

Matterart [31 May 2002]

As someone who gets a bit out of sorts if there is not a stretch of tarmac nearby, I admire artists who live and find creative sustenance in rural areas. 'Matterart' focused on two artists who do just that. Pauline Burbidge and Charles Poulsen live  Read on…

Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios, Alnwick 8 April – 13 May