Cornelia Parker
born 1956
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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 – How significant are the shadows?
Shadows on the floor and on the wall are as much part of the work as the suspended objects. The ...
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Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter – Still explosion
'I operate very often in these 'frozen moments' where there's been lots of action but this a sort of ...
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Cornelia Parker's Folkestone Mermaid
The artist immortalised a woman in the pose of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
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Talking Art: Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker has shot at objects, thrown them from cliffs, blown them up and rolled over them with a steam ...
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Cornelia Parker: Talking Art
Cornelia Parker is interviewed by writer and curator Lisa LeFeuvre
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Science And Art
This event brings together scientists Patrick Haggard, Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology, and Marcus du ...
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Vanessa Beecroft and Cornelia Parker
For the first time, these two extraordinary artists speak together about their work and an idea of image that tests ...
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Figuring It Out: Cornelia Parker and Colin Renfrew
Archaeologist Professor Colin Renfrew talks with artist Cornelia Parker about the increasing convergence between art and archaeology
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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 ...
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 ...
Art Term
Decalcomania
Decalcomania is a blotting process whereby paint is squeezed between two surfaces to create a mirror image
Art Term
Young British Artists (YBAs)
The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together ...
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Cornelia Parker: why Rose Wylie is a true original
Installation artist Cornelia Parker explains why she finds Rose Wylie so inspiring
Tate Etc
The deliberate accident in art: Blots
Ever since Leonardo da Vinci urged artists to search for inspiration in the dirt on walls or the streaked patterns ...
Tate Papers
Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age
Developed in relation to works by Tacita Dean and William Kentridge, this article explores the way in which the arrival ...
Tate Papers
Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation
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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