Angela Palmer British, b. 1957
The Last Frontier, 2021
Engraved on 28 glass plates
200 x 96.5 x 96.5 cm
78 3/4 x 38 x 38 in
78 3/4 x 38 x 38 in
Unique
Contemporary British artist Angela Palmer collaborated with a team of professors at The Harvard Medical School to create 'The Last Frontier'. Together they scanned the brain at a resolution of...
Contemporary British artist Angela Palmer collaborated with a team of professors at The Harvard Medical School to create 'The Last Frontier'. Together they scanned the brain at a resolution of 100 micron over a period of 100 hours - capturing scans 1,000 times more detailed than the usual MRI, and thus allowing an accurate rendering of the brain on a spectacular and dramatic scale. After precise engraving across 28 panes of glass, careful layers are built up to reveal a three-dimensional portrait of a brain suspended in space.
'The Last Frontier' features in a four-part film series on Sky Atlantic based on Robert Harris's book 'The Fear Index' (the main character, played by Josh Hartnett, is married to an artist, and Robert Harris based her work on Angela's). The series, in which the main characters meditate on the brain and its functions, was released in February 2022.
Angela Palmer's subjects are wide ranging – from her work with Egyptian mummies, first seen in her 2011 exhibition 'Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy', to her 2018 portrait of 'Eclipse', the undefeated Georgian racehorse sired in the bloodline of an estimated 95% of modern racehorses.
Palmer's technical ability, too, is broad: the artist is as at-home working with American black walnut as she is in polished bronze, demonstrated in her 2015 work 'Lifejacket'. The artist's signature technique is, however, something wholly her own. Utilising modern imaging technology, Palmer reveals the internal topographies of her subjects which she then charts with the aid of an electric drill head before engraving across multiple panes of glass.
Angela Palmer started her career as a journalist, first working as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph in 1982, and later becoming News Editor at The Observer (1986-1988). Palmer progressed to become Editor of The Observer Magazine (1989-1992) before moving to Elle Magazine as Editor-in-Chief (1992-1993). In 2002, Palmer studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she received the Fitzgerald Prize for her work, before continuing her studies with a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art.
Palmer's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, and The Science Museum, London, which holds her work 'The Sphere that Changed the World (Coronavirus)' and will include it in a major exhibition later this year.
Pangolin London is proud to represent Angela Palmer.
'The Last Frontier' features in a four-part film series on Sky Atlantic based on Robert Harris's book 'The Fear Index' (the main character, played by Josh Hartnett, is married to an artist, and Robert Harris based her work on Angela's). The series, in which the main characters meditate on the brain and its functions, was released in February 2022.
Angela Palmer's subjects are wide ranging – from her work with Egyptian mummies, first seen in her 2011 exhibition 'Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy', to her 2018 portrait of 'Eclipse', the undefeated Georgian racehorse sired in the bloodline of an estimated 95% of modern racehorses.
Palmer's technical ability, too, is broad: the artist is as at-home working with American black walnut as she is in polished bronze, demonstrated in her 2015 work 'Lifejacket'. The artist's signature technique is, however, something wholly her own. Utilising modern imaging technology, Palmer reveals the internal topographies of her subjects which she then charts with the aid of an electric drill head before engraving across multiple panes of glass.
Angela Palmer started her career as a journalist, first working as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph in 1982, and later becoming News Editor at The Observer (1986-1988). Palmer progressed to become Editor of The Observer Magazine (1989-1992) before moving to Elle Magazine as Editor-in-Chief (1992-1993). In 2002, Palmer studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she received the Fitzgerald Prize for her work, before continuing her studies with a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art.
Palmer's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, and The Science Museum, London, which holds her work 'The Sphere that Changed the World (Coronavirus)' and will include it in a major exhibition later this year.
Pangolin London is proud to represent Angela Palmer.