Artist Name: Acerone

cerone (Palmer, L. b. 1978, Bristol, UK) is a visual artist born and educated in England.Known for his contribution to the Bristol graffiti street art movement, Acerone has been an active visual artist since the mid 1990s and continues to make public wall paintings and photographic works. Since the end of 2008 his work has been heavily focused on using photographic images as blueprints for his paintings. His recent body of work comprises of street paintings, screen prints, photographic collage and interior installations that record and replay captured fragments of time. These works seek to explore the relationship between the static and the dynamic, simplicity and detail, and the past and the present.In 2009, the installation he produced for the Crimes of Passion exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy was selected to be the artwork added to the RWAs permanent collection. In May he held his first solo exhibition at Friend and Co. gallery, Bristol, and was co-curator and artist at the Triple Drop show at the Centrespace gallery, Bristol.2009 also saw him win first prize in the Photographique Gallery photography competition, Bristol A Second Look. In 2008, 2007 and 2006, he represented the UK at the Meeting of Styles street painting conventions in Zurich, Switzerland and Wiesbaden, Germany. Since 2005 he has also been delivering arts award qualification courses to young people who are disengaged with mainstream education within Bristol and the South West of England.