Katrina Palmer (born 1967) is a British artist and writer, living in London. She is "best known for her investigations of sculptural materiality, which often involve written compositions and site-specific recordings". Palmer has had solo exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, the National Gallery, and Warwick Arts Centre. In 2014, she was co-winner of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Award for Artists.
Palmer was born in London. She studied philosophy and English literature at the University of Sussex (1986âÂÂ89). She then worked in the publishing industry for a decade. She gained an undergraduate sculpture degree at Central Saint Martins (2001âÂÂ04); and received an MA (2004âÂÂ06) and a PhD (2012) from the Royal College of Art. In 2024 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.
End Matter was a multi-platform project consisting of The Loss Adjusters, a site-specific installation and audio walk around some of the Isle of Portland (AprilâÂÂJune 2015); "The Quarryman's Daughters", a broadcast on BBC Radio 4; and End Matter, a book. The project "attempted to account for the systematic removal of huge quantities of stone from Portland, an island off the Dorset coast". The book End Matter is "a non-book, consisting of appendices, acknowledgements, an epilogue, an index, a map, some postscripts⦠all the written notes and paraphernalia that surrounds a written work, but not the actual main body text".
Palmer was the National Gallery in London's 2024 Artist in Residence.
, she lived in London, with her husband and son.