End Matter

by Katrina Palmer

UK-based contemporary artist Katrina Palmer builds sculptures using words. In 2013, she won a competition for groundbreaking site-specific proposals that transform the cultural landscape run by BBC Radio 4 and Artangel. Palmer worked with a piece of land that had been hollowed out by quarrying the Isle of Portland, Dorset to produce a haunting narrative and site-specific walk. The artist book book End Matter forms one part of Palmer s story-sculpture. Comprised of the sitework s documentary vestiges appendices, acknowledg- ments, an epilogue, an index, a map, photographs and postscripts, and audio sections from her broadcast (which one can listen to online or while walking around Portland) the book tells the story of the loss of Portland s stone through the mysterious work of The Loss Adjusters, who are responsible for balancing the material and historical shifts of the island s being. A compelling blend of imagina- tion and reality from this young and adventurous artist.

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2015

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Compensating for the Depletion of Real Things with Fictionality."

Dark, strange, funny, odd, unique and fucking brilliant. Katrina Palmer is a genius.