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Angela Palmer

MA work

My work is largely a result of collaborations with scientists, and I am currently working on over 2,500 CAT scans of an Egyptian child mummy from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

The image shown here was created to raise awareness about asthma and, in particular, the dust mites' attack on our lungs. Between clear sheets of perspex are exactly 297 dust mites, the average number per gram of dust. But you can see nothing whatsoever. I wanted to emphasise their powerful and potent armour - their cloak of concealment. I am now investigating another lethal but largely invisible enemy whose devastation reaches far beyond damage to the lungs - air pollution.

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Visual Communication, 2007

  • My work is largely a result of collaborations with scientists, and I am currently working on over 2,500 CAT scans of an Egyptian child mummy from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

    The image shown here was created to raise awareness about asthma and, in particular, the dust mites' attack on our lungs. Between clear sheets of perspex are exactly 297 dust mites, the average number per gram of dust. But you can see nothing whatsoever. I wanted to emphasise their powerful and potent armour - their cloak of concealment. I am now investigating another lethal but largely invisible enemy whose devastation reaches far beyond damage to the lungs - air pollution.

  • Exhibitions

  • Inside Out, Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London, 2007; Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London, 2007; Divided Selves, Fleming Collection and Talbot Rice Art Gallery, London and Edinburgh, 2006; Seeing Heads, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 2006
  • Awards

  • Joint Award Winner, Overall, Polly Campbell Award, Jerwood Space, 2007; Runner-up, WPP Climate Change Challenge, 2007; Winner, Annual Cover Commission, The Lancet, 2006