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Fine Art at LICA and Lancaster Arts present talks with a range of contemporary artists, open to the public and students alike.

This week, we host Katrina Palmer.

Katrina Palmer works with stories that are distributed across found sites, audio environments, printed matter and performance. Attentive to uncertainties, bodily vulnerabilities and insecure environments, these situated narratives invite the audience to consider objects that are indicated, but not fully present. Walking narrow paths and facing threatening precipices, moving alongside animals, looking for signs, the subject in these stories is often on the edge of existence, reliant on emotions, instincts and urges, and conscious of forming part of the real or imagined landscape, as one of the forces that are at play in it. The site of writing and the process of attempting to materialise and reformulate ideas, is often articulated through the work.

Exhibitions include The Coffin Jump (solo: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW as part of the nation-wide WWI centenary commemorations, 2018); The Time-Travelling Circus: the revised dossier concerning Pablo Fanque and the Electrolier (solo: Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, 2017); The Necropolitan Line (solo: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2015); End Matter/The Loss Adjusters/The Quarryman’s Daughters (solo: Artangel, 2015); and Reality Flickers in MirrorCity (group: Hayward Gallery, London, 2014). Among her publications are The Dark Object (Book Works: London, 2010) and ‘Absalon’s Cells’ in The Object (Documents of Contemporary Art series, Whitechapel Gallery/MIT, 2014). She received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists, 2014.

The Spring 2019 Tuesday Talks series also features Chris Drury, Imogen Stidworthy, Yu-Chen Wang, Louise Giovanelli and Vivian Greven.