- Works
- Exhibition
- Burden of Proof
- Vanishing Point - Cristea Roberts Gallery
- Alchemy - Lahore Biennale 02
- Place, Space and Who - Turner Contemporary
- Protest and Remembrance - Cristea Roberts Gallery
- Reformation - Guest Project, London
- Out of The Dark: Artist Bursary Award - Drawing Room
- Shock and Awe - mac birmingham
- Sub Urban : New Drawings - James Hockey Gallery
- Pause - C&C Gallery
- For the Record - Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- Arena -
The Djanogly Art Gallery - As Seen -
Tiwani Contemporary - Show and Tell -
The New Art Gallery Walsall - The Meaning of Style - New Art Exchange
- Louder Than Words - Vane Contemporary
- Louder Than Words -
East International - Louder Than Words -
Unit 2 Gallery - Private Face /Testimony - Queen's Hall Gallery
C.V.
Education:
1993-96
BA, Art, and Design, University of Central England Birmingham,1st Class (Hons), UK
2003-04
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (F.E), Wolverhampton University, UK
Solo Exhibitions:
2024
The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK
2022
Vanishing Point, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
2019 - 21.
Place, Space and Who, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2018
Vanishing Point, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
2016
Shock and Awe, curated by Lynda Morris and Craig Ashley, mac Birmingham, UK
2015
Sub Urban: New Drawings, curated by Richard Hylton, James Hockey Gallery, University of Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2014
Pause, C&C Gallery, London, UK
2013
As Seen, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2013
Here and Now, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, UK
2012
Pursuit of the real, Deptford X Fringe. London, UK
2011
Show and Tell, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2009
Louder Than Words, Vane Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2007
Louder Than Words, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK
2006
Louder Than Words, UNIT 2, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
2005
Testimony, Queens Hall Gallery, Hexham, Northumberland, UK
2005
Testimony, Suffolk College, Ipswich, UK
2002
Private Face, EMACA, Nottingham, UK
2002
Private Face, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK
2002
Private Face, 198 Gallery, London, UK
2000
Communication, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
Two person Exhibitions:
2012
Bread and Roses, (with Kymia Nawabi), Fehily Contemporary Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Fragments (with Katharina Rohde), The Bag Factory Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa
Group Exhibitions, selected:
2024
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Haywood Touring, curated by Hattie Judah, Arnolfini, Mac Birmingham,Sheffield Museum, Dundee Contemporary Art, UK
2024
The Time is Always Now. Artists Reframe the Black Figure, curated Ekow Eshun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
2023
Life Between Islands, Caribbean - British Art, 50s to Now, curated by David A. Bailey and Alex Farquharson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.
2023
Leda and the Swan: A Myth of Creation and Destruction, curated by Minna Moore Ede and presented by Vortic and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2023
Turner Prize, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2023
Power and Resistance,curated by Dr Victoria Avery FSA and Dr Jake Subryan Richards, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK.
2023
Dialogues Across Disciplines, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, New York, USA
2023
Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London, UK
2023
Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah Foundation,
United Arab Emirates
2022
A Line Around An Idea: ways of knowing through contemporary drawing practices, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2022
Mostra, British School of Rome, Italy
2022
Shifting perspectives : Exploring representation of people of African, Caribbean and Asian Heritage Leeds Art Gallery's Collection. Leeds Gallery, UK.
2022
Broken Angel, curated by Mike Tooby, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry. UK
2022
Exchanges, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester. UK
2022
Space Is A Place: From Painting To Performance, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
2021
Life Between Islands, Caribbean - British Art, 50s to Now, curated by David A. Bailey and Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain, UK
2021
A Fire in My Head, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
2021
Bob and Roberta Smith Room, Reclaiming The Magic, Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
2021
Where We Are Now, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens,Sunderland, UK
2021
Art for Life: An exhibition made with keyworkers. Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London UK
2020
Portrayals, Arts Council Collection, Banbury Museum Art Gallery, Banbury, UK
2020
Everyday Heroes, The Haywood Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK.
2020
Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday. MA Curating the Art Museum, Courtauld of Art,(online) London, UK. https://unquietmoments.courtauld.ac.uk.
2020
Between The Sun and The Moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi Between, Pakistan
2019
Open Your Eyes, Art Exchanges, University Essex, Colchester, UK
2019
Super Black, An Arts Council Collection National Partner Exhibition, Firstsite Gallery Colchester, UK
2019
Radical Drawing: Works From Coventry And The Courtauld, The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK
2019
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah Georgia, USA
2019
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut, USA.
2019
Get Up, Stand Up Now, curated by Zak Ove, Somerset House, London UK
2019
Bob and Roberta Smith Room, The Secret to a Good Life, Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
2019
Amory Show, Alan Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
2019
Protest and Remembrance, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2018
Women Power Protest, Birmingham Museum Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2018
Zeichen, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
2018
A Slice Through The World: Contemporary Artist's Drawings, The Drawing Room, London and Modern Art Oxford,
2018
Reformation, Guest Project, co curated with Kashif Nadim Chaudry and Michael Forbes, London, UK
2018
Walls, Have Ears: 400 Years Of Change, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2018
The Gallery Of Small Things, curated by Olabisi Silva, Dakar Biennale, Senegal, Africa
2017
The Gallery Of Small Things, curated by Olabisi Silva, Africa, Cultural& Design Festival, Nigeria, Africa
2017
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Selected by Helen Legg, Dr David Dibosa and Michael Simpson.
Jerwood Space, London, touring to Norwich, Bath and Canterbury, UK
2017
Vicennial, Vane Contemporary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2017
Diaspora Pavilion - International Curators Forum, at Palazzo Santa Marina. Curated by David. A Bailey Venice, Italy
2017
Untitled: Art of the Conditions of our time, curated by Paul Goodwin and Hansi Momodu-Gordon, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2017
Everything Exist Now, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, UK
2016
Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2015
Salon 2015, Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2015
Ten, Vane Contemporary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2015
‘Figur|e|ation’, galleryELL, online gallery: http://galleryell.com/exhibitions/figureation/
2015
Annuale 2015, Article Gallery, Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, curated by Rachel Bradley and Mona Casey, UK
2015
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People’, Curated by Jennifer Higgie. A Hayward Touring and Arts Council Collection exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery, touring to Nottingham, Drogheda, Southport and Eastbourne, UK
2014
For the Record, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2013
End of the Line, Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK
2013
Manchester Contemporary, Paper Gallery, UK
2013
Downtime, Curated by Paul O'Kane, Ort Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2013
Luminous Language, Launch F18, New York, USA
2012
Berlin / Birmingham / Beyond, Elly Clarke Gallery, mac Birmingham as part of Allotment 10 plots, UK
2011
Mostyn Open 11, Llandudno, Wales, UK. Selected by Richard Wentworth, Karen Mackinnon and Anders Pleass.
2010
The Meaning of Style, The New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2009
Birmingham Seen, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham UK
2009
Feminist At practices: rewind, remix and pump up Volume!, Axis Online Curated Selection. Curated by Katy Deepwell, UK
2009
East International 09. Selected by Raster Gallery and Art & Language, Norwich, UK
2009
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society (with Vane Contemporary), London, UK
2008
Art of Birmingham II 1940 -2008, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2008
Newcastle Gateshead Arts Fair, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2008
Open West Midlands 08, Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Selected by Richard Billingham, Dr Rachel Garfield and Alistair Robinson, UK
2008
Hawkins & Co, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK
2008
Say it as it is, Signal Gallery, London, UK
2006
Families, Oxford House Gallery, London, UK
2006
Birmingham Artsfest 06, Birmingham, UK
2004
Royal Birmingham Society of Artist, Birmingham, UK
2003
True Stories, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2003
True Stories, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003
True Stories, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2003
Human Condition, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2002
Intervention Project, Birmingham, UK
2000
Black Artists Exhibition, Q-arts, Derby, UK
1999
Ingoldby Estate, Community Arts Project, Birmingham, UK
1999
Central Collective, Roundhouse Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1998
Woodbridge Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1996
Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
1995
Women’s Festival, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK
Residencies:
2017
Artist in Residence, Drawing Room Bursary Award, London, UK ( July- September)
2017
Artist In Residence, Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice, (April)
2016 - 2018
Diaspora Platform, International Curators Forum, in partnership with University of the Arts London (UAL)
2015
Artist in Residence, James Hockey Gallery, University of Creative Arts, Farnham, UK (August - October)
2013
Artist in Residence, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham, UK (Feb - May)
2011
Artist in Residence, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK (April- July)
2008
Triangle Art Trust International Residency, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa, (research and production, Sept-Dec)
2005
Painting and Drawing course at Accademia Italianna, Florence, Italy (Sept-Oct)
2006
Mentoring and Artist Residency, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa (April)
2000
Communication/Collection Residency, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK (Feb - Mar)
Awards:
2023
Shortlisted for Turner Prize 2023
2023
Elected to Royal Academy of Arts, London
2023
Barbara Walker, Historian of British Awards Book Awards
2022
Nominated, Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award, UK
2020
Nominated Freelands Foundation Awards, UK
2020
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Artist Bursary Award,UK
2019 - 2020
Bridget Riley Drawing Fellowship, British School of Rome, Italy
2019
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
2019
Nominated, Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award, UK
2018
Nominated, Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award, UK
2018
Shortlisted, Derick Hill Fellowship, British School of Rome, UK
2018
Arts Council England, Grant for The Arts,
2017
Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017
2017
Nominated, Freelands Foundation Awards, UK
2017
Drawing Room Bursary Award, nominated by Sonia Boyce and Jonathan Watkins
2015
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, ( research and development)
2010 -11
Arts Council England, West Midland Grants for the Arts, (research and development of new work)
2008
Arts Council England, West Midland Grants for the Arts (The Triangle Trust International Residency, South Africa)
2008
Ford Foundation, Grant for Residency at the Bag Factory Artist Studio, South Africa
2008
Sovereign European Art Prize. Nominated by Judith King
2007
Arts Council England, West Midland Grants for the Arts (mac exhibition)
2005
Arts Council England, West Midlands Grants for the Arts (R&D)
2002
Arts Council England, West Midlands, Creative Ambitions Award (R&D), mentored by Eddie Chambers
2002
Collide Arts Programme, Birmingham City Council, UK
2001
Arts Council, West Midlands, Creative Ambitions Award, UK
2000
Millennium Awards, Birmingham, UK
Collections:
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Philadelphia Museum of Art. USA
Wellin Museum of Art, USA
The Usher Gallery, UK
Arts Council England, UK
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, UK
Guest Projects Collections, UK
Facebook, London, UK
Yale Center for British Art, USA
British Museum, UK
Bristol Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Government Art Collection, UK
US Embassy, London, UK
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
Jerwood Collection, UK
Leeds Art Gallery, UK
Katrin Bellinger Collection, UK
The Fitzwilliam Museum, UK
The Wadsworth Atheneum, USA
Pallant House Gallery, UK
Tate, UK
Private Collections
Commissions:
2022
Burden of Proof, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah Foundation, United Arab Emirates
2022
Boken Angel, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, UK
2021
A Fire in My Head, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
2020
Vital Arts, 100 Rooms, Brent Hospital Trust London, UK.
2020
Everyday Heroes, The Haywood Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK.
2020
Alchemy, Tollinton Market, Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan
2019
US Embassy Collection, London, UK
2019
Place Space and Who, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK.
2017
Facebook AIR Program, Rathbone Office, London, UK
2010
ABCD Phoenix Park Commission, Wolverhampton Art Gallery/Wolverhampton City Council
2009
The Meaning of Style, the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2003
True Stories, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Monograph:
2021
Barbara Walker, texts, Paul Gilroy, Sarah Martin and Aicha Mehrez. Interview with the artist by Courtney J.Martin. Turner Contemporary, UK, ISBN: 978-1-9996088-3-5.
Bibliography:
2023
Blank Atlantic: Power People Resistance, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,(pub) ISBN 9781781301234
2023
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance review – a welcome if partial reckoning, review by Kadish Morris,
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
2023
Toys, twisted rollercoasters, rooftop fountains: meet this year’s Turner Prize nominees, by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian Newspaper, UK
2023
Who gets remembered and why?’: the exhibition asking uneasy questions about the Atlantic slave trade, review Colin Grant, The Guardian Newspaper, UK
2023
Barbara Walker at the Glucksman, UCC: Addressing racism through art, Irish Examiner, Ireland
2022
Barbara Walker, Place, Space and Who, Art Journal, Summer 2022, vol, 81, No 2. USA
2022
‘Vanishing Point’ by Barbara Walker at the Cristea Roberts Gallery, text by Emily Laure (online)
2022
Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point, Contemporary Art Society, by Christine Takengny (online)
2022
The Ghosted- Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point, by Jo Manby The Fourdrinier, UK (online).
2022
Barbara Walker Fills in the Blanks, review by Lauren Dei, Frieze, London, UK
2022
Where Are The Black People in Old Master Paintings?, interview by Griselda Murray Brown, Financial Times Magazine, issue April 22.
2022
Barbara Walker – Black figures emerge from the footnotes of classical art, review by Rianna Jade Parker,
The Guardian, March, UK (online).
2022
The Artists Fighting Racism, by Precious Adesina, BBC Culture, 31 January, (online)
2021
A Brief History of Black British Art, by Rianna Jade Parker, Tate, UK, ISBN: (pub) 978-1-84976-756-9
2021
Life Between Islands: Caribbean - British Art 19 50s - Now, Tate Britain UK, (pub) ISBN: 978-84976-7651-1
2020
Barbara Walker: Place, Space and Who, by Dr Carol Ann Dixon, Museum Geographies (online)
2021
Place,Space and Us, By Jan Ryan, The Margate Mercury, Spring 2021, UK
2021
Contained: Exhibiting Blackness, By Tom Denman, Art Monthy, Issue 446 May, London, UK
2021
The Great British Art Tour: these men were there, too,. By Julia Carver, The Guardian Newspaper, UK
2021
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, 2021, Phaidon ISBN: 9781838661694
2020
Barbara Walker: Practice of Optimism, Elephant Magazine no 44, Autumn 2020, pg 92-96 London, UK (ISSN1879-3835)
2020
Everyday Heroes, Studio International,UK
2020
Postcolonial interpretations of the art collections at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, By Julia Carver and Jenny Gaschke, Art UK (online line). https://artuk.org/discover/stories/postcolonial-interpretations-of-the-art-collections-at-bristol-museum-art-gallery
2020
Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows, By Julianne McShane
The New York Times, Aug. 20, 2020
2020
Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, catalogue (online), UK
2020
Lahore Biennale 02, Between The Sun and The Moon, Lahore Biennale Foundation, Publication, Lahore, Pakistan
2020
Lahore Biennale: between the sun and the moon. Reviewed by Virginia Whiles. Art Monthly no. 434, March 2020, pg 26. London, UK
2020
Between The Sun and The Moon - The Second Lahore Biennale. Reviewed by Khadijah Rehman. Youlin Magazine, (online) 11 February
2020
Lahore Biennale communicates strong political content through its selection of artists, who are dismantling popular narratives about politics, gender and faith. Reviewed by Quddus Mirza, Encore Magazine, Pakistan, (online), 9 February
2020
How she gives visibility to lost or little-known stories. Art Quarterly, London, 13 January
2019
Eugene Palmer and Barbara Walker: Photography and the Black Subject, by Richard Hylton, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art: Volume 2019, Issue 45
1 November 2019 Online ISSN 2152-7792 Print ISSN 1075-7163
2019
Place, Space,Who: interview, by Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, London, 9 September
2019
Protest and Remembrance, Barbara Walker: Studio International, interview by Anna McNay (online) March, UK
2018
Stick To The Skin, African American and Black British Art, 1965 -2015, by Celeste- Marie Bernier, USA
ISBN 9780520286535
2018
a-n The Artists Information Company, Q&A with… Barbara Walker, artist making black histories visible, by Anneka French (online).
2018
Out of the Dark: Barbara Walker, by Adelaide Bannerman (brochure) June,
ISN 978-1-5272-2437-7
2018
A Slice Through The World, Contemporary Artist's Drawings, by Stephaine Staine and Kate Macfarlane, publish by Drawing Room and Modern Art Oxford, June,
ISBN 978-1-9996404-1-5
2018
Barbara Walker, Sub Urban: New Drawings, by Christine Checinska, Journal Textile: Cloth and Culture, Volume 16 (pub) ISSN1475-9756
2017
BBC Two - Venice Biennale: Britain's New Voices, UK
2017
Diaspora Pavilion in Venice, by Robbert Roos, Africanah.org (online)
2017
Diaspora Pavilion, by International Curators Forum, (November)
2017
UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, reviewed by Piers Masterson, This Is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine, March (online)
2016
No More “Poisonous, Disrespectful, and Skewed Images of Black People”: Barbara Walker’s Louder Than Words, by Celeste Marie Berner, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art: Volume 36-38, November, USA, ISSN 1075-7163
2016,
Pictures of... The untold story of Black Servicemen and women.a-n The Artists Information Company, By Jack Hutchinson.(online)
2016
Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Bristol, ISBN 978-1-908326-95
2016
Youth(1) Speaks: The Art of Barbara Walker, Richard Hylton, (Farnham), March
2015
New Art WM Annuale 2015 Reviewed, Angela Kingston, Birmingham, March
2015
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People, Jennifer Higgie, London, ISBN 978-1-85332-330-0
2014
Barbara Walker, interview with Yvette Gresle, Africanah.org, (online)
2014
Selected drawings by Barbara Walker, reviewed by Dr Christine Checinska, Stuart Hall Library blog (London) July, (online)
2014
Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, Eddie Chambers, New York,
ISBN 978- 1-78076-2715
2013
Barbara Walker: As Seen, by Karen Roswell, published by Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London
ISBN 978-0-95743338-2-3
2011
‘Barbara Walker’, review, Debora Kuan, Modern Painters, London, December
2011
The Radar Magazine, Paul Green, Birmingham, June
2010
The Meaning of Style, review, Amy Shaw, An Magazine, Nottingham, March
2010
The Meaning of Style, review, Jeanie Robinson, Socialist Review, London, 10 March
2010
Black culture's impact on society, (interview, The Meaning of Style), Riah Matthews, The Nottingham Post (Nottingham), 16 January
2009
Louder Than Words, preview, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, London, 10 October
2009
Rotate, review, Martin Herbert, Time Out Magazine, (London), 3 September
2009
East International, review Martin Herbert, Art Monthly Magazine, September, London
2009
East International, review, Matt Roberts, An Magazine, Newcastle, September
2009
East Book, East International 09, Norwich,(pub) ISBN 1- 872482-90-2
2009
Birmingham to Africa, Judith Amanthis, Morning Star, London, 1 April
2008
Scattergun approach reaps limited rewards (review Wolverhampton Open) Terry Grimley, The Birmingham Post,( Birmingham) 29 July
2008
Hawkins & Co, Sandra Gibson, Nerve, Liverpool
2008
A Slice of Reality, (review Say It As It Is), Judith Amanthis, Morning Star London,15 January
2008
Violence, editor Katy Deepwell, n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal: Volume 21 (London
2007
The political message gets personal, (review, Louder Than Words), Terry Grimley, The Birmingham Post, Birmingham, 3 July
2006
Louder Than Words, review Samuel Jones, Demos, Friday, London 1 December
2006
Revealing the human, (review, Louder Than Words), Judith Amanthis, Morning Star, London, 27 November
2006
Private Face, essay, Dr Eddie Chambers, catalogue, Birmingham, ISBN 0 9534477-3-10
2005
Testimony, review Hexham Courant (Hexham), Friday, 5 August
2003
True Stories, review, The Birmingham Post, (Birmingham), Wed 17 September
2003
True Stories, essay, Wanjiku Nyachae, catalogue
2002
The Subject of Painting: works by Barbara Walker and Eugene Palmer, essay by Dr Gen Doy, Visual Communication, volume 1, no 1 (London)
2002
Private Face, essay, Dr Eddie Chambers, catalogue, Birmingham, ISBN 0 9534477-3-10
2002
Private Face, review, Metro Newspaper, Birmingham, 28 May
2002
Private Face, review, The Guardian Guide, London, 17 June
2002
Private Face, review, The Birmingham Post, Birmingham, 17 June
2000
Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, ISBN 09543713-0-5
Professional / Educational Experience:
2023
Front Row, BBC 4.
2023
Artist Talk, Drawing projects: Girl Friday Breakfast Club, Wiltshire, UK.
2023
Selector (with Laura Hoptman, Dennis Scholl ), Trinty Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, UK
2021
Selector (with Andrew Ciifford, Jo baring, Clare O'brien and Jonathan Watkins,) Figuration Art Now, Mall Galleries, UK
2019
Selector (with Hew Locke, Jessie Brennan, Dr. Rachel Dickinson, Dr. Jonathan Foyle, Tim Brannan, and Kate Mason) The John Ruskin Prize 19, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2018
Drawing Discussion: Lines of Thought Symposium, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Project, London, UK
2018
Panel Discussion: Drawing Symposium, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, UK
2017
Panel Discussion: Drawing as Document, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2017
Artist Talk, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2016
Selector (with Angela Kingston and Jason E Bowen),The New Art West Midlands, Birmingham, UK
2016
Selector (with Craig Ashley and John Butler), Coventry Open 16, The Herbert Art & Museum, UK
2014
Selector (with Richard Hiorns and Zoe Lippet), West Midlands Open 14, Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery, UK
2015
Artist Talk, Middlesex University, UK
2014
Artist Talk, Reading University, UK
2014
Visiting Tutor, Lincoln University, UK
2012
Visiting Tutor, Wolverhampton University, UK