Eugene Oliver Palmer (born 1955) is a Jamaican-born British artist.
[1] His work uses archival records, photographs, and contemporary media imagery as basis for his paintings.
Palmer has had a long association with art curators and exhibitors Eddie Chambers and Keith Piper and is recognised as one of the leading Black artists working in Britain.
[2] Eugene Oliver Palmer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to England as a child with his parents in 1966.
In the mid-1970s he completed an Art Foundation course in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, before going on to secure a BA (Hons) from Wimbledon School of Art in 1978, followed a few years later by a Teaching Certificate from Garnett College, London, and an MA in Painting from Goldsmiths College, in the mid-1980s.