{"id":10949,"date":"2020-04-27T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/exhibition\/matter-kirsty-palmer-in-the-west-wall-gallery\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:16:27","slug":"matter-kirsty-palmer-in-the-west-wall-gallery","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/exhibition\/matter-kirsty-palmer-in-the-west-wall-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"(Matter) \u2013 Kirsty Palmer in the West Wall gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skaftfell&#8217;s current artist in residence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kirsty_palmer_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kirsty Palmer<\/strong> <\/a>(UK) is showing a selection of her newest work in the West Wall gallery in Skaftfell&#8217;s bistro, beginning on 5th May 2020.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Matter) <\/i>is a group of new works developed during Kirsty&#8217;s residency at Skaftfell from February to May 2020.\u00a0Responding to existing concerns within her practice, the work explores image-making as an evolving medium in her predominantly sculptural and site-specific practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kirsty_palmer_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kirsty Palmer<\/strong><\/a> lives and works in Glasgow. Her practice is often driven by formal concerns; materials, their changing states and the making process itself. She is interested in the phenomenological potential of materiality, archaeology and landscape as a site of memorial. Her work often presents as a site-specific \u2018archipelago\u2019 of surfaces, forms and images and can itself be seen to form a memorial of sorts; a dedication to a particular physical space, image or process.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty graduated from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 2014, and with BA (Hons) in 2010. Recent exhibitions include <i>LANDING, <\/i>Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (2019); <i>Of A Mountain\/ Af fjalli<\/i>, Br\u00e6\u00f0raborg, \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\u00a0(2018); <i>Flock &#038; Fold<\/i>, S\u00cdM, Reykjavik (2018); <i>I S L A N D <\/i>S, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh (2017).<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty\u2019s residency at Skaftfell is supported by Creative Scotland Open Project Funding.<\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19 the bistro (and the West Wall gallery) is currently open on weekdays 12:00-13:00 and 18:00-20:00, and on the weekends from 18:00-21:00.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15894 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2025\/08\/CS_Lottery_SB_bw.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"98\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/98;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_exhibition_status":0,"wds_primary_location":0,"footnotes":""},"exhibition_status":[140,159],"location":[415],"class_list":["post-10949","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibition_status-past-exhibitions","exhibition_status-residency","location-west-wall-gallery-bistro"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_status?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}