Oliver Palmer

Born 1982 in Harold Wood, Romford, Greater London, England

Working primarily in sculpture, Oliver Palmer builds site-specific and process-driven pieces in- and outdoors. His subjects of inquiry include positive and negative space, binary systems of logic, acts of making and un-making, reversible processes, and archaeology.

Using the ancient building material of earth he has been using wooden shutters for building rammed-earth blocks but now also uses the gallery space itself as the shutters from which to cast his work.

Influences on him include Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mike Nelson, Fred Sandback, J. G. Ballard, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Nishida Kitaro, and Jean Baudrillard.

Education:

2004-2007 Oxford Brookes University - B.A. Hons Fine Art (First-class)

Exhibitions:

February 2010
Dead Time and Negative Space -
Goodenough College, London

January - February 2010
Minimalism Massimo -
The Gallery at Willesden Green, London

October 2009
11 Untitled: My Mind Is The Only Thing I Know Really Exists -
The Menier Gallery, London

July - August 2009
Silence, Exile, and Cunning - Oxford Town Hall

July - August 2009
Now You See It - Notfamousyet, Oxford

February 2009
Not Outer Space - Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

August 2008
Pontoon, Art Exhibition in, on & over The River Thames, Oxford

August 2008
The Dreaming Spires - OVADA Project Space, Gloucester Green, Oxford

April May 2008
Geography - The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Glos.

March 2008
OBsessions - Modern Art Oxford

Nov. 2007
The Nightfair Before Christmas - OVADA, Oxford

Sept. 2007
The Oxford Arts Festival - The Jam Factory,
27 Park End Street, Oxford

June 2007
Spark @ The Fireplace Gallery - graduate initiated group show at 103 St Clements Street, Oxford

May 2007
Oxford Brooke...