Anna Palmer
As an artist, I am most interested in exploring ideas such as the energy held within spaces, the way a room, an object, or a surface can absorb and retain experience long after its origin has passed. My practice investigates how environments become carriers of memory, emotion, and time, asking what it means for a space to be permanently changed by what it has witnessed. Using oil paint and sculpture, I work across two and three dimensions. In Aftermath, I explored these ideas by using painting along with sculpture to show how past experiences spill out into a space and are affected by it.
Exhibition Statement
This work explores memory, trauma, and the aftermath of a singular event, rendered through the narrative of a flooded house. Five paintings are surrounded by sculpted copper pipes bearing the marks of corrosion, together extending across a stained wall of exposed brick. The subject matter seeps beyond the canvas, corroding the pipes and staining the walls, as though the trauma depicted has permanently altered the space it inhabits. Warm tones of red, pink, and orange evoke physical trauma, while traces of green across the paintings and the oxidised copper speak to the slow passage of time. Recurring spiders and ceramic dogs appear in most paintings, demonstrating how trauma is perceived and remembered over time.
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