Exhibition
Roger Palmer. Winter Garden
22 Jan 2016 – 6 Mar 2016
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Hunslet Road
- Leeds
England - LS10 1JQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Leeds Bus Station
- Leeds National Rail
In the depths of a northern hemisphere winter, Roger Palmer’s project, Winter Garden, temporarily transforms the Tetley’s 1930s atrium interior with a larger than life-size mural of a tropical palm tree recalling the botanical gardens of the colonial era.
About
Appropriating an illustration from the pages of an early 20th century horticultural book, Palmer’s mixed-media rendering of Acanthophoenix Crinita, a palm native to the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, acts as a cipher to the colonial and post-colonial discourse Palmer’s work has traversed over the past 30 years.
Working as an artist and educator since the1970s, Palmer has pursued a multi-media approach to image-making, through photography, printmaking, wall-drawing and video. He has also made text works as site-specific signs, billboards, neon sculptures, LED panels, vinyls, temporary paintings and drawings. A comprehensive collection of Palmer’s artist’s books documenting various exhibitions and projects are on display for the first time here at The Tetley.
Based in Glasgow, Palmer has participated in exhibitions and undertaken residencies in different international contexts, including several projects in South Africa. The range of works brought together for Winter Garden offers an insight into his four decades of research and practice, which have contributed to international debates on the representation of place and ideas of location and dislocation, migration and settlement.
