Angela Palmer's work is in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Science Museum in London, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Smithsonian Air and Space in Washington, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Eight of Palmer's sculptures were exhibited at the Guggenheim's 25th anniversary exhibition in Bilbao in 2022. Her environmental installation, The Ghost Forest, which was exhibited in Trafalgar Square, Copenhagen and Oxford, is in the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

She is an award-winning graduate of the Royal College of Art and was a scholar at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University.