Kate Palmer

Everything happens

This is Palmer’s (MA Painting Royal College of Art) first major exhibition since completing her two-year fellowship at Trinity College Cambridge. The exhibition will contain six large-scale canvases and approx. 14 drawings. The show is accompanied by a colour catalogue available with text by Dr Jean Khalfa (Lecturer in French, Trinity College, Cambridge).

ors6 - Indeterminancy with no other setting than itself oil on mixed media 114x305cm

“Everything happens – that is the thing”
Everything Happens is translated from “Tout Arrives” –a phrase used by Manet as his letterhead. Colloquially this means “I didn’t think that was possible!” - In painting the extraordinary can happen through the ordinariness of daily practice.

Everything Happens taken literally though could mean: “there is nothing only events… whatever there is, is an occurrence”. For Palmer the work evolves in a fluid and responsive way where occurrences, or singularities, happen within indeterminate space.

In this exhibition the works are both open-ended and exploratory, abstract paintings that build up a history through layers. Where recently laid marks can refer back to marks from the ghosts of previous levels.

But also where unique marks can be reduced to their most essential content and express the energy of their moment while conversely the unmarked areas create a latency between surface and potential space.

Additional Information:

Kate Palmer is also appearing in a group show:

Faith 7-30 May 2004

Transition Gallery
110a Lauriston Road
London E9

with: Emi Avora, Carol Ho, Katarina Invanisin, Sharon Leahy-Clark, Simon Leahy-Clark , Kate Palmer, Mark Pearson, Claire Pestaille, Sumiko Seki.

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