Gentle yet determined, Stanley Palmer makes colourful long exposures of oceans and skies, brush, beach, valleys, pastures, rock formations and off-shore islands. Constructing a personal vision of specific locations marked and shaped by memory, history and loss, Palmer’s oeuvre graciously encompasses New Zealand.

From the coastlines of Westland and the Poor Knight Islands to the roads north of Puhoi; from Whatipu to Karamea, from Manganese Point to Coromandel to the East coasts. The fragility and isolation of remote areas is made present, as are the majestic volcanoes and the prior lives of central Auckland suburbs and industrial areas.

Stanley Palmer (b. 1936) has been exhibiting since 1958 and has worked as a full-time artist since 1969. He is respected and viewed as one of New Zealand’s most significant senior landscape artists and continues to work daily from his Mt Eden studio.

Palmer has exhibited extensively in both Australia and New Zealand and his work has been seen as far afield as Tokyo, Venice and Ljubljana, India. Palmer has received much recognition for his work with works held in private and public collections throughout New Zealand including: The University of Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Christchurch Art Gallery.

Additionally Palmer has authored publications such as To the Harbour (2007) and is featured in the major monographs West (2000) and East (2009) with an accompanying text by Gregory O’Brien.

In the 2001 Queens Birthday Honours, Palmer was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to fine art.

Stanley Palmer is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery.