Abi Wants to be Your Mentor!
Mentoring can be an impactful way to help loosen creative “stuckness” or find balance between a creative practice and other aspects of your life.
I’m an award-winning artist, writer and filmmaker and an experienced mentor. I offer constructive support and feedback to practitioners of all disciplines and experience levels. I provide a structured, nurturing and creative space for you to establish goals, expand your practice, and bring your ideas to life.
Some areas I cover:
Developing big ideas
Routes to publication, representation or other institutional recognition
Navigating identity / marginalisation in the art world
Working in new mediums or hybrid form
Funding - ways to apply and frame an application, identifying funding sources, planning a bigger project
Adapting work for accessibility, or centring access in your work
Creating an access document
Navigating your creative practice with a disability, chronic illness, or other life limiting obstacles
Developing creative confidence
Fees
I work on a sliding scale depending on circumstance. Institutionally-funded projects are priced at a higher rate to support the cost of unfunded clients.
Unfunded mentoring: £50-100 per session (sliding scale dependent on income)
Funded mentoring: £200 per session
Discounts are available for regular booking slots
Thinking of applying for funding to include me in a funding application? I offer free 25 minute consultations - get in touch.
How to arrange mentoring
Drop me an email via my online contact form!
About Abi
Abi Palmer is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She uses the fluctuations of her disabled body as a jumping-off point to make work that is multisensory, fragmented and queer.
Her recent film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel, 2023) explores themes of access, isolation and the urgency of climate change, through attempting to capture, distil and convey the entire outside world into small ritualistic performances for her indoor cats. Other notable works include: Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins, 2020) - a fragmented memoir, jumping between luxury thermal pool, and blue inflatable bathtub; and Crip Casino - an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry and institutionalised spaces. It has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection and Collective Edinburgh.
In 2020 she received an Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ grant. In 2021 she was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s ‘Awards for Artists.’ Sanatorium was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. Her multisensory poetry installation Alchemy (2016) won a Saboteur award.