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Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures and ecological landscapes.

She is the author of Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books, 2024) and Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins 2020). Solo exhibitions and projects include Slime Mother (Chapter, Cardiff, 2024); Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel, 2023); Crip Casino (Tate Modern, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection, Collective Edinburgh).

Palmer was included in Crip Arte Spazio at La Biennale di Venezia 2024, the first major international exhibition of the UK Disability Arts Movement. Her copulating slug sculptures were selected for the Frieze Corridor Commission (2023). She is a Bloomberg New Contemporary Artist (2023); a recipient of Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists (2021); and Artangel’s Thinking Time award (2020). Sanatorium was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize.