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Biography
Amanda Palmer (b. 1975, Essex) is a UK-based artist specialising in drawing. She works primarily in pencil, coloured pencil, pastel, PanPastel and charcoal, often combining these media to create layered, observational works.
Palmer studied Fine Art at De Montfort University, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in 2001. Her focus returned strongly to drawing while teaching life drawing during a PGCE placement at London College of Fashion in 2006. She later completed 'The Drawing Year' at the Royal Drawing School (2007–2008), where drawing became the central focus of her practice.
She currently creates work for exhibition and private collections from her studio in Norfolk and has exhibited regularly in open exhibitions across the UK, including the Mall Galleries, London.
Recent accolades include Winning Entry, DRAW 25, Wisbech Art Gallery (2025), Shortlisted, Visual Artists Open Prize (2025), and Judge’s Special Mention, Wisbech Art Gallery Open (2024). Earlier awards include the Patsy Whiting Award (SWA, 2019) and The Pastel Society Award for Non-members, 2nd Prize (2015).
Education
'The Drawing Year' 2007 - 2008
The Royal Drawing School
PGCE in Post Compulsory Education & Training 2005 - 2006
The University of Greenwich
Teaching Practice at the London College of Fashion
BA (Hons) Fine Art - First Class 1998 - 2001
De Montfort University
Awards
DRAW 25 Wisbech Art Gallery 2025 Winning Entry
Shortlisted Visual Artists Open prize 2025
Judge's Special Mention - Wisbech Art Gallery 0pen Exhibition 2024
Patsy Whiting Award -SWA (Society of Women Artists) Annual Open Exhibition 2019
The Pastel Society Award for Non-members, 2nd Prize, at the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2015
The Royal Drawing School, External Assessment Board Prize - Awarded by: Andrea Rose (Director of Art for The British Council), Ivor Braka (Contemporary Art Dealer), Andy Stahl (Head of Fine Art at the Slade) and Charles Booth Clibborn (Director of Paragon Press).
Award - De Montfort University 2001
Open Exhibitions
Wisbech Gallery Open show from this Saturday, the 27th September, until the 25th October
DRAW 25 Wisbech Art Gallery 17th May – 14th June 2025
Black &White New Art Gallery, Eastborne, Sept - October 2022
The Patterson Gallery The Alfriston Room at The Lansdowne Hotel 2024
newartgallery - The Alfrieston Room and The Lansdowne Hotel 2024
Wisbech Gallery Open 2024 Wisbech Art Gallery September 25th to 26th October 2024
SWA (Society Women Artists) 161st Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 6th - 11th September 2022
Exhibition of Amanda Palmer and Barry Wilson at the Bannatyne Hotel, St Lenards, 24th June - 8th July 2022
SWA (Society Women Artists) 159th Annual Exhibition, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this years show is online at https://onlinegalleryswa.oess1.uk/ from 22nd September to 31st December 2020.
SWA (Society Women Artists) 158th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1. Open from Tuesday 24th Sep at 4.00 (Private View) to Sunday 29th September 10am to 5pm daily, closing at 1.00 on Sunday 29th September 2019.
The Pastel Society Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 21 February to 4 March 2017
SWA (Society Women Artists) 154th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 5th - 13th June 2015
The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 18th - 27th June 2015
'Look Again' - 116th Annual Exhibition, The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, 23rd Feb - 7th March 2015
SWA (Society Women Artists) 151st Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 28th June - 7th July 2012
'Love Pastels' - 113th Annual Exhibition, The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, 14th Feb - 25th Feb 2012
SWA (Society Women Artists) 150th Celebratory Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 30th June - 9th July 2011
'Colour 2011' - 112th Annual Exhibition The Pastel Society, 20th April - 1st May 2011
The 52nd Essex Open Exhibition, Beecroft Art Gallery, 10th July - 2nd October 2010
SWA 149th Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 30th June - 10th July 2010
'Contemporary Drawing '04,' Ruskin Mill, Stroud, 2004
Open Exhibition, City Gallery, Leicester, 2000
Group Shows
'Black & White' New Art Gallery, Eastborne, Sept - October 2022
Exhibition of Amanda Palmer and Barry Wilson at the Bannatyne Hotel, St Lenards, 24th June - 8th July 2022
'THINKING OF YOU…POSTCARDS TO NEPAL' House of Illustration, Kings Cross, London - 21st May 2015
Selected work from Alumni of The Royal Drawing school - The Cooks School, Dumfries House, Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Opened by HRH The Prince of Wales on 2nd April 2013 - Work displayed until May 2014
‘The Uncanny' Chapel Gallery, Lancashire, 29th September - 17th November 2012
'Minutiae' The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London, 15th November - 9th December 2012
Group Show - Alumni of the Drawing School. Wiveton Hall Café, Norfolk, 25th June - 15th July 2009
The Prince’s Foundation Gallery, London, October - November 2008
'High Tea: A Show of Fresh Figurative Painting and Drawing', The TEA Building, London, November 2008
Windsor Castle Royal Drawing School Patron's Dinner 2008
Video Installation, Escape Bar and Art, London, 2004
Nth Art, Ols & Co Gallery, London, 2003
The Castle Gallery, Northamptonshire, 2002
'Identikit,' Brixton Art Gallery, London, 2001
Trinity Gallery, Leicester, 2001
'Concealed/Revealed,' Hogshead, Leicester, 2001
Degree show, Exhibition Centre, Leicester, 2001
Links
Making a Mark: New England Art Club Open Exhibition 2015
[Making a Mark: New England Art Club Open Exhibition 2015]
http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/review-NEAC-annual-exhibition-2015.html
Art Rabbit
http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/events/event/33611/the_uncanny
Royal Drawing School
RoyalDrawingSchool
Review Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2011
http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-pastel-societys-annual.html
Amanda Palmer (b. 1975, Essex) is a UK-based artist specialising in drawing. She works primarily in pencil, coloured pencil, pastel, PanPastel and charcoal, often combining these media to create layered, observational works.
Palmer studied Fine Art at De Montfort University, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in 2001. Her focus returned strongly to drawing while teaching life drawing during a PGCE placement at London College of Fashion in 2006. She later completed 'The Drawing Year' at the Royal Drawing School (2007–2008), where drawing became the central focus of her practice.
She currently creates work for exhibition and private collections from her studio in Norfolk and has exhibited regularly in open exhibitions across the UK, including the Mall Galleries, London.
Recent accolades include Winning Entry, DRAW 25, Wisbech Art Gallery (2025), Shortlisted, Visual Artists Open Prize (2025), and Judge’s Special Mention, Wisbech Art Gallery Open (2024). Earlier awards include the Patsy Whiting Award (SWA, 2019) and The Pastel Society Award for Non-members, 2nd Prize (2015).
Education
'The Drawing Year' 2007 - 2008
The Royal Drawing School
PGCE in Post Compulsory Education & Training 2005 - 2006
The University of Greenwich
Teaching Practice at the London College of Fashion
BA (Hons) Fine Art - First Class 1998 - 2001
De Montfort University
Awards
DRAW 25 Wisbech Art Gallery 2025 Winning Entry
Shortlisted Visual Artists Open prize 2025
Judge's Special Mention - Wisbech Art Gallery 0pen Exhibition 2024
Patsy Whiting Award -SWA (Society of Women Artists) Annual Open Exhibition 2019
The Pastel Society Award for Non-members, 2nd Prize, at the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2015
The Royal Drawing School, External Assessment Board Prize - Awarded by: Andrea Rose (Director of Art for The British Council), Ivor Braka (Contemporary Art Dealer), Andy Stahl (Head of Fine Art at the Slade) and Charles Booth Clibborn (Director of Paragon Press).
Award - De Montfort University 2001
Open Exhibitions
Wisbech Gallery Open show from this Saturday, the 27th September, until the 25th October
DRAW 25 Wisbech Art Gallery 17th May – 14th June 2025
Black &White New Art Gallery, Eastborne, Sept - October 2022
The Patterson Gallery The Alfriston Room at The Lansdowne Hotel 2024
newartgallery - The Alfrieston Room and The Lansdowne Hotel 2024
Wisbech Gallery Open 2024 Wisbech Art Gallery September 25th to 26th October 2024
SWA (Society Women Artists) 161st Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 6th - 11th September 2022
Exhibition of Amanda Palmer and Barry Wilson at the Bannatyne Hotel, St Lenards, 24th June - 8th July 2022
SWA (Society Women Artists) 159th Annual Exhibition, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this years show is online at https://onlinegalleryswa.oess1.uk/ from 22nd September to 31st December 2020.
SWA (Society Women Artists) 158th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1. Open from Tuesday 24th Sep at 4.00 (Private View) to Sunday 29th September 10am to 5pm daily, closing at 1.00 on Sunday 29th September 2019.
The Pastel Society Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 21 February to 4 March 2017
SWA (Society Women Artists) 154th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 5th - 13th June 2015
The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1, 18th - 27th June 2015
'Look Again' - 116th Annual Exhibition, The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, 23rd Feb - 7th March 2015
SWA (Society Women Artists) 151st Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 28th June - 7th July 2012
'Love Pastels' - 113th Annual Exhibition, The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, 14th Feb - 25th Feb 2012
SWA (Society Women Artists) 150th Celebratory Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 30th June - 9th July 2011
'Colour 2011' - 112th Annual Exhibition The Pastel Society, 20th April - 1st May 2011
The 52nd Essex Open Exhibition, Beecroft Art Gallery, 10th July - 2nd October 2010
SWA 149th Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 30th June - 10th July 2010
'Contemporary Drawing '04,' Ruskin Mill, Stroud, 2004
Open Exhibition, City Gallery, Leicester, 2000
Group Shows
'Black & White' New Art Gallery, Eastborne, Sept - October 2022
Exhibition of Amanda Palmer and Barry Wilson at the Bannatyne Hotel, St Lenards, 24th June - 8th July 2022
'THINKING OF YOU…POSTCARDS TO NEPAL' House of Illustration, Kings Cross, London - 21st May 2015
Selected work from Alumni of The Royal Drawing school - The Cooks School, Dumfries House, Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Opened by HRH The Prince of Wales on 2nd April 2013 - Work displayed until May 2014
‘The Uncanny' Chapel Gallery, Lancashire, 29th September - 17th November 2012
'Minutiae' The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London, 15th November - 9th December 2012
Group Show - Alumni of the Drawing School. Wiveton Hall Café, Norfolk, 25th June - 15th July 2009
The Prince’s Foundation Gallery, London, October - November 2008
'High Tea: A Show of Fresh Figurative Painting and Drawing', The TEA Building, London, November 2008
Windsor Castle Royal Drawing School Patron's Dinner 2008
Video Installation, Escape Bar and Art, London, 2004
Nth Art, Ols & Co Gallery, London, 2003
The Castle Gallery, Northamptonshire, 2002
'Identikit,' Brixton Art Gallery, London, 2001
Trinity Gallery, Leicester, 2001
'Concealed/Revealed,' Hogshead, Leicester, 2001
Degree show, Exhibition Centre, Leicester, 2001
Links
Making a Mark: New England Art Club Open Exhibition 2015
[Making a Mark: New England Art Club Open Exhibition 2015]
http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/review-NEAC-annual-exhibition-2015.html
Art Rabbit
http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/events/event/33611/the_uncanny
Royal Drawing School
RoyalDrawingSchool
Review Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2011
http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-pastel-societys-annual.html