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The Touch Report: 2024 Artist in Residence Katrina Palmer

Talk and Q&A

Gain new perspectives on our collection through the work of 2024 Artist in Residence, Katrina Palmer
Date
Monday, 27 January 2025
Time
6 - 7 pm GMT
Available online only

About

The National Gallery Artist in Residence 2024, Katrina Palmer, sees violence in many of the paintings that hang on our walls. They are made of fragile materials, but they are rich in perceived power.

At this online event, curator Priyesh Mistry introduces Katrina Palmer’s latest work, ‘The Touch Report’, a book which invites you to reconsider the National Gallery’s pictures through the artist’s words. Through unadorned descriptions in her work, Palmer explores the contrasting ideas of civilisation and violence in historic paintings and draws on the power of words over image. 

Priyesh opens this work so you can contemplate the Gallery’s pictures and their stories in a new way, with an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the talk.

Image: Exhibition 2024 Artist in Residence - Katrina Palmer: The Touch Report. Photo: The National Gallery, London.

Speaker

Priyesh Mistry is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London where he works towards an ambitious programme to integrate contemporary art within the context of the museum and its historic collections. He manages the Artists in Residency programmes and contemporary commissions. Recent projects include ‘Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti (The Corrections)’, ‘Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different’, 'Ali Cherri: If you prick us, do we not bleed?' and 'Dance to the Music of Our Time: A Live Exhibition with Hetain Patel, Florence Peake, Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo'.

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This online event will be recorded. Recordings are usually available in your National Gallery account within three working days of the event. 

This recording will be available for two weeks. 

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Automatic closed captioning is available for this event.

Talks & conversations

The Touch Report: 2024 Artist in Residence Katrina Palmer

Talk and Q&A

Gain new perspectives on our collection through the work of 2024 Artist in Residence, Katrina Palmer
Date
Monday, 27 January 2025
Time
6 - 7 pm GMT
Available online only

Free

Public booking for this event opens on 20 January. Members can book now.

This is an online event, hosted on Zoom.

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