Invited to be the 2024 National Gallery Artist in Residence Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report draws on research made during this year, and forms the centre of the resulting exhibition of the same name.

In a room stripped of the paintings that usually hang in that part of the gallery, Palmer has created a reading room. You’re invited to read The Touch Report work there, experiencing the violence, subjugation and darkness of the paintings. Written in sparse, urgent fragments that invite closer reading, The Touch Report , turns the reader’s gaze into the dark, to question our notions of ‘civilisation’.

The Touch Report is now available to pre-order, and will also be available from the National Gallery shop, along with a new catalogue raisonné of her work published by the National Gallery.

The exhibition will open at the National Gallery on 11 December 2024 – 2 March 2025, in Room 17a, and admission is free. For more information visit the National Gallery site.