About

Moving to Birmingham, UK, from Kingston, Jamaica, as a child, Eugene Palmer uses figurative painting to explore the British black diaspora. Drawing on the experience of being immersed in British culture while remaining symbolically outside of it due to the colour of his skin, Palmer deals deftly with issues of race and representation all while resisting didacticism.

Sourcing images from life, pop culture and beyond, Palmer begins with a photograph before passing it through his painterly filter; figuring his own family as a repository of cultural history and memory, archival images and family …