Polly Palmerini is a photographic artist based in Manchester UK. Currently a Teaching Assistant on the BA (Hons) Photography at Manchester School of Art.

Her practice concentrates on materiality, malleability and the performative quality of everyday objects, which an interest in objects found in her surroundings. Her past work ‘Odds and Ends’focused on discarded items, left as trash which have lost their original purpose and their role as commodities in our lives. She has been exploring the never settling relationship in photography between what we see and what we know, by playing with ideas of illusion and myth.

Odds and Ends was shown at Manchester Art School Take Flight Degree Show 2018, in Arles photo festival with Route and in China with Beyond the Camera at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.

Also a Tutor for the Manchester Art and Design Saturday Club, workshops for 13-16yrs old.

@pollypalmerini
pollypalmerini@gmail.com

Exhibitions

Into the Labyrinth, International 3 (Salford) 23rd November-3rd December 2017

Make/Shift, Plant Noma (Manchester) - December 2017

A Month at the Venice Art Biennale, Bow Arts London, 15th March-14th February 2018

Degree Show at Manchester School of Art (Manchester) - June 2018

ROUTE, Voies Off Festival, (Arles France) - July 2018

Beyond the Camera, Pingyao International Photography Festival - September 2018

TOIL, Grosvenor Gallery (Manchester) , 18th-22nd February 2019

Natural Light, AIR Gallery - Lumen Studios (upcoming November 2019)

Residencies

Venice Art Biennale Fellowship 2017 - British Council funded- Venice, Italy ("Floating" 2017)

Cultural Digital Designer in Residence, with Abraham Moss High School and People’s History Museum, January-March 2019

Curatorial Projects

Route, Co-curator, Voies Off Festival, July 2018
The Place, co-curator, Grosvenor Gallery, January 2019