Slime Mother is a major solo exhibition by artist Abi Palmer. The exhibition creates an alternate universe where, rather than treated with disgust, slugs are worshipped.
Through slime, queerness, politics of space and deeply erotic, alien mating rituals, Slime Mother invites audiences to merge and connect with this complex gastropod, and embrace its resilient strangeness.
Slime Mother has been commissioned by Chapter Arts Centre in partnership with KARST and Site Gallery, where the exhibition will tour in September 2025. The exhibition was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Free Entry
Access Information
We run a Relaxed Viewing Hour between 11am – 12pm every Thursday. These hours provide brighter natural lighting and quieter sound.
Children’s and adult’s ear defenders are available by the main gallery door. Hearing loops are available at reception.
Large-print versions of the exhibition handout and coloured overlays are available by the gallery door.
Slime Mother is in Site Gallery’s main exhibition space, on the ground floor. There are accessible, gender-neutral toilets and baby changing facilities on the same floor. Full access information will be provided closer to the exhibition opening.
Image: courtesy of Abi Palmer.
Artists
Abi Palmer
Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures and ecological landscapes.
Works include film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel, 2023); book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins, 2020); and interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino (exhibited at Tate Modern, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection and Collective Edinburgh.
Her copulating slug sculptures were selected for the Frieze Corridor Commission (2023). She is a Bloomberg New Contemporaries artist (2023); a recipient of Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists (2021) and Artangel’s Thinking Time award (2020). Sanatorium was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize.