Cornelia Parker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cornelia Parker
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1956(1956-07-14)
Age	68
Birthplace	Cheshire
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

Cornelia Parker Biography

Cornelia Parker is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on July 14, 1956 in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Artist and sculptor who is known as the creator of “Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View” in 2001, “Subconscious of a Monument,” and many other pieces. The 1995 “The Maybe” was a performance work that featured actress Tilda Swinton lying asleep in an unlit vitrine.

She along with fellow artist She and fellow sculptor Allen Jones were both born in England. were both born in England.

Parker was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. She studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974–75) and Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975–78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton in 2000, the University of Birmingham (2005), the University of Gloucestershire (2008) and the University of Manchester (2017).

Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA (born 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.

She moved to London together with her spouse and her child.

Cornelia Parker Net Worth

Cornelia Parker is one of the richest Sculptor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cornelia Parker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She attended Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, as well as Reading University.

She was nominated for the famous Turner Prize in 1997.

Parker continued her work as a curator for the Found exhibition for The Foundling Museum, which incorporated sixty-eight artists from an array of creative disciplines, as well as contributing her own piece, A Little Drop of Gin. This limited-edition print, nicknamed ‘mother’s ruin’, was a photogravure using a 1750s gin glass and droppings of gin. Parker was named Artist of the Year in the 2016 Apollo Awards for her involvement and contributions in the art world.

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Who is Cornelia Parker Dating?

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In contrast, in 1997 at the Turner Prize exhibition, Parker exhibited Mass (Colder Darker Matter) (1997), suspending the charred remains of a church that had been struck by lightning in Texas. Eight years later, Parker made a companion piece “Anti-Mass” (2005), using charcoal from a black congregation church in Kentucky, which had been destroyed by arson.

Facts & Trivia

Cornelia Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Cornelia Parker celebrates birthday on July 14 of every year.

Parker has made other interventions involving historical artworks. For example, she wrapped Rodin’s The Kiss sculpture in Tate Britain with a mile of string (2003) as her contribution to the 2003 Tate Triennial Days Like These at Tate Britain. The intervention was titled The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached). She re-staged this intervention as part of her mid-career retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, in 2015. Subconscious of a Monument (2005) is composed of fragments of dry soil, which are suspended on wires from the gallery ceiling. These lumps are the now-desiccated clay which was removed from beneath the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to prevent its collapse.

What is Cornelia Parker famous for?

Biography. Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.

What inspired Cornelia Parker?

The theme of destruction recurs in Parker’s work, the artist having been inspired by “ cartoon deaths ” for example the blowing up, flattening and dramatic falls of Road Runner and Tom and Jerry.

Why did Cornelia Parker make cold dark matter?

In an interview with Tate curator Michela Parkin, Parker suggested that an explosion was something she had wanted to do for a long time. To her, an explosion is an ‘archetypal’ image, familiar to us from childhood to adult life: Somehow the idea and imminence of the ‘explosion’ in society seemed such an iconic thing.

Is Cornelia Parker a contemporary artist?

Cornelia Parker is one of Britain’s best loved and most acclaimed contemporary artists. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world.

Where does Cornelia Parker Work?

Parker was the UK’s official Election Artist for the 2017 general election, making several artworks that are now housed in The Parliamentary Art Collection. Cristea Roberts Gallery has been publishing Parker’s editions since 2008. Cornelia Parker lives and works in London.