Stephen Palmer

Solo Exhibitions

2019
‘Back Put Together It’ (with Roland Hicks), Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2013
‘The end has no end’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2008
‘The Dead and Alive Songs’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘That’s the Story of My Life’, Waygood Gallery & Studios, ‘Harker Herald’ billboard project, Newcastle upon Tyne

2007
‘Worthless little tokens’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2003
‘Sack’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2002
‘Monster Bags’, 2c Albert Road, Portsmouth

1999
‘Tonight we’re gonna parquet like it’s...’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
‘Beep Painting Biennial 2024: I won’t stay in a world without love’, elysium gallery, Swansea, touring to Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, and Oriel Croesor, Croesor
‘Slow Painting’, The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington
‘It Rose and It Fell – Terrace Open 2024‘, Terrace Gallery, London
‘Assembly’, The Old Gym, Rye

2023
‘Presence’, That Art Gallery, Bristol
‘X – Contemporary British Painting’, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Paper Cuts’, 50 MV, Liverpool
‘Champs Noir’, Terrace Gallery, London

2022
‘Paint Edgy’, The Ropewalk, Barton on Humber
‘Jubilee’, Vane, Gateshead
‘Vitalistic Fantasies’, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
‘Paradoxes’, Quay Arts Centre, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight

2021
‘In (Matters of the Soul)’, ASC Gallery, London

2020
‘Vitalistic Fantasies’, The Cello Factory, London

2019
‘The Flesh of Thought’, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
‘Creekside Open 2019’, APT Gallery, London
‘40 Celsius’, ASC Art House, Croydon
‘Wells Art Contemporary Awards 2019’, Wells Cathedral, Wells

2017
‘Humble As Hell’, Kurt Schwitters Merzbarn, Elterwater, Ambleside
‘Vicennial’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2016
‘Second Glances’, Michaela Helfrich Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2015
‘Ten’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2014
‘Between fact and fiction’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2013
‘Multiple Choice: Contemporary Prints & Editions from Private Collections in the North’, Part 1, Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Part 2, Queen’s Hall, Hexham (catalogue)
‘A Thousand Words’, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA

2012
‘Day In, Day Out’, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
‘Collecting Contemporary Art’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘The Nail, the Colours, the Mast’, the Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany

2011
‘Outcasting: A Century of Artists Films’, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan

2009
‘A room inside them’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Rotate’, Contemporary Art Society, London

2007
‘The Consequence’, LowSalt Gallery, Glasgow and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
‘Slowtime 2007 – Quicktime as an artistic medium’, online exhibition of video work, curated by NewMediaArtProjectNetwork, Cologne, Germany
‘Mix Cooltura/Random Mix’, Trafacka Arena, Prague, Czech Republic

2006
‘Multiplus’, Sideshow, Nottingham

2005
‘Go find the WMDs’, Multiplus, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Sheena Macrae, Stephen Palmer, Joe Woodhouse’, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘If all the world were paper and all the sea were ink...’, Northern Print Studio, North Shields

2004
‘Practice’, High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Thermo04: Editions’, The Lowry, Salford
‘Multiplus Reloaded’, Saltburn Artists Projects, Saltburn by the Sea

2003
‘Tuesday is cerise’, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Vacant’, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
‘...Not just for Christmas’, Northern Print Studio, North Shields
‘Shopping’, Comme Ca Gallery @ Debenhams Windows, Manchester

2001
‘A Perfect World (Once Removed)’, University of Derby
‘Stay’, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2000
‘Losing the Plot’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Uninhabited’, Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

1999
‘Cheers’, British Lime Gallery, Santa Ana, USA
‘Cool Britannia’, British Lime Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA

Awards and Residencies

2004
Creative Partnerships residency (with Sneha Solanki), Deneside Infants School, Seaham

2003
Residency, Northern Print Studio, North Shields & The Solution Group, Gateshead

2000
Northern Arts, Study and Stay Award

Curatorial Projects

2003
‘...Not just for Christmas’, Northern Print Studio, North Shields

2000
‘Losing the Plot’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Uninhabited’, Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

Works in Collections

Government Art Collection

Bibliography

2022
‘Artist Story: Stephen Palmer’, interview, Vane

2019
‘Stephen Palmer: Negation as Creation’, interview, Daniel Brady, Jackson’s Art (London), 19 August

2016
‘Q&A: Stephen Palmer’, interview, Gary Peters online journal, (London), 8 June

2013
‘Multiple Choice’, catalogue text, Rebecca Morrill, pub. Contemporary Art Society North (Newcastle upon Tyne)
‘Modern life is rubbish’, essay, Rebecca Travis, Vane
‘The end has no end’, preview, Robert Meddes, The Crack (Newcastle upon Tyne), February
‘The end has no end’, preview, NE1 Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne), 29 Jan – 13 Feb

2009
‘Rotate’, review, Martin Herbert, Time Out (London), 3 September
‘A room inside them’, review, Christopher Collett, Metro (London), 16 July 2008
‘The dead and alive songs’, preview, The Journal: Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne), December 08 – January 09
‘The dead and alive songs’, preview, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide (London), 6-12 December
‘The dead and alive songs’, preview, Anna Richardson, Narc. (Newcastle upon Tyne), December
‘The dead and alive songs’, preview, Robert Meddes, The Crack (Newcastle upon Tyne), December

2007
‘Worthless little tokens’, review, Neily Alimohamadi, Metro (London), 2 November
‘Recycling with a difference’, essay, Roy Exley, Vane
‘Creative Minds’, Review of Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland, collaborative project for cover with Sneha Solanki produced for Creative Partnerships residency at Deneside Infants School, Seaham, pub. Creative Partnerships (Durham / Sunderland)
‘How Big is the Sky’, review of Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland projects, pub. Creative Partnerships (London)

2005
‘Stephen Palmer’, essay by Robert Blackson, ‘Workplace’ book, pub. Art Editions North (Sunderland)
‘Whose culture is it anyway’, essay by Helen Baker, ‘Tuesday is cerise’ Waygood Gallery catalogue, pub. Northumbria University Fine Art Press (Newcastle upon Tyne)