Cornelia Parker

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 11 p.m.

In episode 39 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the\xa0world-renowned British artist, CORNELIA PARKER !!\n\n[This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!]\n\nAnd WOW! This was such an insight into one of Britain's foremost artists\xa0known for her inventive, poetic, and quietly provocative works in sculpture, photography, performance, prints, and large-scale, and often site-specific, installations. \n\nWorking in a variety of mediums since the mid-1980s, Parker's\xa0art is about destruction, resurrection and reconfiguration. Demonstrating the importance of process, she frequently transforms objects by using seemingly violent techniques such as shooting, exploding, squashing, cutting and burning. And it is through these actions that she both physically alters the object, as well as becoming an active development of its story herself.\xa0\n\nHaving studied at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design and at Wolverhampton Polytechnic before receiving her MA in Fine Art from the University of Reading in 1982, Cornelia Parker has since gone on to capture audiences from around the world, shifting our idea of what art can be, and exploring every possible potential of materials. \n\nShortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1997, made an OBE and a Royal Academician in 2010, as well as serving as the country\u2019s Election Artist in 2017, Parker has exhibited all over the world, including the likes of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, London\u2019s Hayward Gallery, Manchester\u2019s Whitworth Gallery, Sydney\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as featuring in collections worldwide from the Tate, Royal Academy, Pompidou, and MoMA.\xa0\n\nFurther reading!\nhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/cornelia-parker-2358\nhttps://cristearoberts.com/artists/25-cornelia-parker/\nhttps://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/cornelia-parker/\nhttps://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/cornelia-parker-ra\n\nENJOY!!!\n\nThis episode is sponsored by Alighieri \nhttps://alighieri.co.uk/\n@alighieri_jewellery\nUse the code: TGWA for 10% off! \n\nFollow us:\nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller)\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/