Cornelia Parker

born 1956

Cornelia Parker, ‘Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View’ 1991
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991
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Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA (born 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.

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  • Cornelia Parker, ‘Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View’ 1991

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    The Story of Cold Dark Matter

    Take an look at the meaning and making of Cornelia Parker’s exploded shed and explore the work through questions and …
  • Cornelia Parker, ‘Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View’ 1991

    Art Term

    Installation art

    The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a …
  • Cornelia Parker, ‘Pornographic Drawing’ 1996

    Art Term

    Decalcomania

    Decalcomania is a blotting process whereby paint is squeezed between two surfaces to create a mirror image
  • Damien Hirst, ‘Mother and Child (Divided)’ exhibition copy 2007 (original 1993)

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    Young British Artists (YBAs)

    The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together …
  • Justinus Kerner A signature illustrated with a Klecksographie 1879 image of a moth made from an ink blot with text at the top and bottom of the picture

    Tate Etc

    The deliberate accident in art: Blots

    Christopher Turner

    Ever since Leonardo da Vinci urged artists to search for inspiration in the dirt on walls or the streaked patterns …
  • Tacita Dean The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days (Board 2) 1997

    Tate Papers

    Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age

    Ed Krčma

    Developed in relation to works by Tacita Dean and William Kentridge, this article explores the way in which the arrival …
  • Participants in Tate Modern’s Summer Institute mapping connections between works shown in the History, Memory, Society suite, 2002

    Tate Papers

    Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation

    Helen Charman and Michaela Ross

    Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in …

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