Judith Palmer
Manchester Metropolitan University
Discussant: Fieldworks
Judith Palmer is Critical Writer in Residence at MIRIAD, MMU. She has written extensively about art and literature for the Independent and is author of a book about contemporary artists, 'Private Views, Artists Working Today' (Serpent's Tail, 2004). Her research into the ethnobotany of the British Isles resulted in the installation, The Field Hospital, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003); and was followed by a collaborative investigation into the science and folklore of the foxglove (with visual artist Pauline Aitken and University of Cambridge Multi-Imaging Dept) which won a Wellcome Trust sci-art award. For art-science commissioning agency The Arts Catalyst she has curated events including Space Soon, a meeting of artists, astronauts and space scientists in Sept 2006. She regularly presents programmes on BBC Radio 4 exploring our cultural relationship with the natural world.