Lazarus Raised
An exhibition of paintings by Garrick Palmer. Open daily at Portsmouth Cathedral from 14 February to 14 April 2024
About the exhibition
With work previously shown at Portsmouth Cathedral in the late 1950’s, and we are delighted to collaborate with The Jack House Gallery to once again exhibiting the work of this local artist, with several other pieces made over subsequent years. This group of Lazarus themed artworks have been generously loaned from private collections including one from the Towner Eastbourne, and also from the Estate of Garrick Palmer, Garrick’s daughters Sarah, Emma and Vicky.
This exhibition in the Cathedral was a project very dear to Garrick Palmer’s heart and much discussed before he sadly died in July 2023.
Exhibition in partnership with the Jack House Gallery.
A press image from 1957
About the artist
Garrick Palmer made his first Lazarus painting whilst a star student at the Royal Academy in around 1957 and went on to win the prestigious Gold Medal prize that year much to the chagrin of the then notoriously fusty and conservative President of the RA Sir Alfred Mullins. Palmer wore the criticism that his was a ghastly modernist mess of a painting as a badge of honour.