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Born 1982 in Harold Wood, Romford, Greater London, England

Working primarily in sculpture, Oliver Palmer builds site-specific and process-driven pieces in- and outdoors. His subjects of inquiry include positive and negative space, binary systems of logic, acts of making and un-making, reversible processes, and archaeology.

Using the ancient building material of earth he has been using wooden shutters for building rammed-earth blocks but now also uses the gallery space itself as the shutters from which to cast his work.

Influences on him include Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mike Nelson, Fred Sandback, J. G. Ballard, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Nishida Kitaro, and Jean Baudrillard.