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Kirsty Palmer: FIELDS
28 October, 2023–26 November, 2023

FIELDS is a new body of two and three-dimensional work developed for Gallerí Úthverfa. It follows recent residencies undertaken with ArtsIceland (2022) and Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art (2020).
Rooted in interaction with materials, place and process, Kirsty Palmer’s practice addresses ideas surrounding landscape, archaeology and materiality, often resulting in bodies of work which are site-specific or temporary in nature.
FIELDS brings together a series of images and sculptural objects which draw attention to the micro and macro, the close and distant. Referencing wider practices including geology, walking and mapping, FIELDS considers notions of terrain, territory and landscape(s) as sites of memorial. It looks to geological (and man-made) matter – often small in scale – as signifiers of much larger-scale or long-term processes or events. It considers the broader notion of foundations and transformative events as echoing shifts in our own (human) foundations.
FIELDS includes a new piece of printed matter; a double-sided broadsheet in an edition of 100.
FIELDS is supported by Creative Scotland Open Project funding.
Kirsty Palmer graduated from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 2014, and with BA (Hons) in 2010. Since 2016, her practice has increasingly been based between her home country of Scotland and Iceland. She has recently been artist in residence with ArtsIceland, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art (Seyðisfjörður), SÍM (Reykjavik) and Fish Factory (Stöðvarfjörður).
Recent exhibitions include Terrain, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh (2023); QUARRY, South Block, Glasgow (2021); Matter / Efni, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður (2020); LANDING, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (2019); Of A Mountain/ Af fjalli, Bræðraborg, Ísafjörður (2018).