Sarah Palmer

b. 1992, London
Lives and works in Glasgow
Co-founder/director of Horsepower

Education

2023 – 2025 Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

2011 – 2014 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Art

2010 – 2011 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Wimbledon College of Art

Awards

2025 Prize winner at It’s Paradise Up North

2024 Shortlisted for the BEEP Painting Prize

2023 Awarded a Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Scholarship

2014 Longlisted for Saatchi New Sensations

2014 Shortlisted for the Works in Print Art Graduates Prize

2014 Selected for Clyde & Co Art Award Collection

Solo exhibitions

2016 Square Eyes, Clapham Omnibus, London

Selected group exhibitions

2025 Summerhall Arts Annual Group Show, Summerhall, Edinburgh

2025 MFA Degree Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

2025 RBA Rising Stars, Royal Overseas League, London

2025 It’s Paradise Up North, Paradise Works, Manchester

2025 BEEP Painting Biennial continues at Aberystwyth School of Art

2025 SWATCHED Midnight, Strange Field, Glasgow

2024 BEEP Painting Prize Biennial: I won’t stay in a world without love, Elysium Gallery, Swansea

2024 Bits & Bytes, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow

2024 GSA MFA Interim Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

2024 !?Do you know who I am?!, South Block Gallery, Glasgow

2016 Glossary, Safehouse 1, London

2016 Taster Show, Sound & Vision, Lancaster

2015 Tangible Existence, The Affordable Art Fair, London

2015 Maps, Scene, London

2015 Capsule, Embassy Tea Gallery, London

2015 POP LIVING, Schwartz Gallery, London

2014 Nice Little Show, Nice Gallery, London

2014 Works in Print Art Graduates Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills, London

2014 Exquisite Corpse, Islington Arts Factory, London

2013 SCRATCH CARD, HOUSE, London

2013 Art in the Village, The Curzon Gallery, London

Collections

University of the Arts London Collection