Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker graduated from Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1978 and undertook her MFA at Reading University. She is an internationally recognised artist who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, elected to the Royal Academy in 2009 and made the subject of an episode of the BBC’s recent documentary series What Do Artists Do All Day? She works in a variety of mediums and is best known for large, site-specific works in which she explores, destroys, resurrects and metamorphoses objects that have long since outgrown their use-value, or which she has herself made redundant. When Parker began to produce her Bullet Drawings, she was making a clear and playful reference to early Minimalism. These bullets, once so unsettling and laden with stigma, have been unreservedly stripped of their authoritative power, dragged out to their material limit and forced along a new trajectory: winding and bending in a way so utterly contrary to their nature. The fragile grid of the 2009 Bullet Drawing shown here is trapped between two layers of glass; arrested for a silent contemplation.
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