Angela Palmer (née Gordon) is a Scottish artist and former journalist. Before becoming an artist, Palmer had a career as a journalist: she was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Diary Editor of The Times, News Editor of The Observer, Magazine Editor of The Observer and Editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine. She was awarded Young Journalist of the Year Scotland and was a runner-up in the Catherine Pakenham Award for Women Journalists. Palmer later followed a career as an artist and graduated from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, and The Royal College of Art, London. She now works as a sculptor with works in the permanent collections of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, The Wellcome Trust in London and The Renault Art Collection in Paris. Palmer's work has been shown in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her latest artwork is Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver, this is Palmer's second work in the permanent collection of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Her largest scale installation was The Ghost Forest, which was shown in Trafalgar Square in 2009. Sir John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland, chose Palmer's Brain of the Artist to feature in his book 100 Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. The sculpture toured in a tri-national exhibition entitled From Rembrandt to the Selfie at the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe; the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon; and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Education Palmer was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh. She was a Thomson trainee at the Edinburgh Evening News. At the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University she was awarded the Waugh Scholarship and won the Fitzgerald Prize. She was also awarded the Thames and Hudson Prize at the Royal College of Art in London. Palmer is also the daughter-in-law of Major General Sir Joseph Michael Palmer, former Defence Services Secretary. Artwork Palmer has developed a technique in which she uses MRI and CT scans to 'map' objects by drawing or engraving details onto multiple sheets of glass to create a layered 3D image which appears to float in a glass cube. For Brain of the Artist, 2012, (collection Scottish National Portrait Gallery), Palmer created a self-portrait using MRI scans of her brain, carried out