Angela Palmer

Angela Palmer (née Gordon) is a Scottish artist and former journalist. Before becoming an artist, Palmer had a career as a journalist: she was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Diary Editor of The Times, News Editor of The Observer, Magazine Editor of The Observer and Editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine. She was awarded Young Journalist of the Year Scotland and was a runner-up in the Catherine Pakenham Award for Women Journalists. Palmer later followed a career as an artist and graduated from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, and The Royal College of Art, London. She now works as a sculptor with works in the permanent collections of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, The Wellcome Trust in London, The Science Museum in London, The Renault Art Collection in Paris. Palmer's work has been shown in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Several of Palmer's works were exhibited at the Guggenheim's exhibition Motion, Autos, Art and Architecture (curated by Norman Foster). Palmer's portrait, Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver, is her second work in the permanent collection of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Her largest scale installation was The Ghost Forest, which was shown in Trafalgar Square in 2009. Sir John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland, chose Palmer's Brain of the Artist to feature in his book 100 Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. The sculpture toured in a tri-national exhibition entitled From Rembrandt to the Selfie at the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe; the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon; and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.