Artnet

Cornelia Parker Named Official Artist for the UK’s Forgone-Conclusion Election

The UK has named British artist Cornelia Parker as its official Election Artist for the 2017 general election. The task involves paying close attention to the current election cycle and creating an ...
Forbes

See The Mind-Bending Mid-Career Survey Of Cornelia Parker, An Artist Who’s Worked With Marie Antoinette’s Guillotine And A Church Struck By Lightning

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When lightning struck a church in Texas in 2005, the pastor ...
The New Yorker

On the Campaign Trail with Cornelia Parker, the U.K.’s Official Election Artist

Like many things in British politics, the job of the official U.K. election artist is a bit make-it-up-as-you-go. Dreamed up by the maverick former sports minister Tony Banks, in the early ...
The Arts Desk

Cornelia Parker, Tate Britain review – divine intelligence

Since Parker is a conceptual artist as much as a sculptor, there’s a back story to the work and knowing it enriches one’s experience of the piece, since it lets you in on her thought processes. As a ...
The Australian

British artist Cornelia Parker opens her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

After decades in that world, British artist Cornelia Parker intimately understands the process and its importance. That doesn’t necessarily mean she accepts it. “(Conservators) don’t want me to touch ...
CNN

Meet the woman making art out of the UK election

Life, as the writer Oscar Wilde once observed, imitates art more than the other way round, but what about politics and art? British artist Cornelia Parker, 61, best known for her installations that ...
Artnet

A Piece of Jimi Hendrix Heritage Is Heading to Detroit Thanks to Artist Cornelia Parker

A fragment of rock-and-roll history—parts of the stairs leading to Jimi Hendrix’s apartment in London’s Mayfair—have been acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts. They were salvaged and transformed ...
insider.si.edu

Cornelia Parker / editor, Rachel Kent

"Cornelia Parker is the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the Southern Hemisphere. This Sydney-exclusive exhibition will feature over 40 artworks from across the artist's career, ...
Refinery29

Meet The Official Artist Of The 2017 General Election

The sculptor and installation artist, who was awarded an OBE in 2010, is the first woman to receive the commission after male artists were selected in 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2015. Parker is free to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

UK Appoints First Woman as Official Artist of General Election

The British artist Cornelia Parker is fascinated by the forces of destruction. Her work often focuses on “steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions,” according to her ...
BBC

In My Own Words: Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker, one of Britain's best loved and most acclaimed contemporary visual artists, reflects on her life in a visually rich, touching and profoundly personal film. Quietly provocative, Parker ...