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Cornelia Parker

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Marcel van Eeden, Untitled 2018 Coloured pencil on paper, 19 x 28 cm Courtesy the artist and Drawing Room

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Drawing Biennial 2019

20 Feb 2019 – 26 Mar 2019

Opening: Today, 11:00

Drawing Room

London, United Kingdom

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Past events

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War Machine

25 Jun 2016 – 29 Aug 2016

The Collection & The Usher Gallery

Lincoln, United Kingdom

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Nature's Alchemy

24 Nov 2017 – 06 Jan 2018

bo.lee gallery

London, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Print Project Space: New Editions

01 Sep 2018 – 22 Sep 2018

Alan Cristea Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Cornelia Parker

28 Apr 2017 – 21 Jun 2017

Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square

London, United Kingdom

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Social media has made ventriloquists of us all – through our online profiles and timelines we speak in quotations, found images, videos and music, each of us creating a unique assemblage that expresses an individual sense of self. Speaking through found media has become a shared language, a common tongue. Collage, as a medium, has never been more relevant. Thinking about the ubiquity of this new form of assemblage offers us a lens through which we might consider, or reconsider, artworks made in the medium of collage. Clement Greenberg’s seminal text ‘Collage’ attributed the invention of the technique to Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso – in its relatively short history how has the medium changed, and how has our reading of it changed? In a world saturated with images, how do contemporary artists arrest our insatiable consumption of images and help us to focus on looking? In Tim Davies’ series of sanded postcards ‘Bridges’ are meticulously removed from their contexts, their surroundings delicately excised with a scalpel. Cristina Garrido, by contrast, seeks to remove all but context in her series ‘Veil of Invisibility’, painstakingly painting over the artworks depicted in a group of postcards purchased from museum gifts hops. Among the 22 postcards that Garrido has overpainted is a piece by Susan Hiller, one of Britain’s most influential artists, whose 1983 work ‘Towards an Autobiography of Night’, included in IN QUOTES, is the earliest work in the exhibition. The 12 C-type photographs are enlargements of postcards depicting rough seas of the British coast, hand painted by Hiller with gold ink, and explore the transformation of materials, the tradition of the sublime, and homage to the unknown photographers and artists of the original postcards. Hiller’s influence can be seen in Holly Stevenson’s ‘Palmy Bonheur’ works, which have been framed with reference to the format of another of Susan Hiller’s seminal postcard works. Stevenson is interested in the philosophical argument that art is a promise of happiness and her work is concerned with symbols and materials that reference bonheur. Stevenson’s use of bright floral imagery is echoed in the work of Alex March, whose collages combine flowers with antique studio portraits, and explore themes of removal, concealment, revelation and what those strategies might hint at. The photomontages by Linder also depict flowers – dancers whose heads have been replaced with roses, and a man and woman with their eyes obscured by blooms. A pioneering feminist artist, Linder’s work calls into question the politics of gender and the commodification of the human body. Sharon Kivland’s series MOI, 2016/17 shares a dialogue with Linder’s exploration of the representation of women, in a group of hand drawn straplines taken from magazines of the 1950s. In contrast to Kivland’s elevation of quoted text, Rowena Hughes’ sculpture ‘Undue Flexure’ denies the viewer access to the text contained within the reference books that she has bound with elastic bands to form an assemblage that explores the status of books as objects in a post internet age. The transformation of books is also explored in a group of collages by Ann-Marie James. Constructed from the pages of a first edition of André Malraux’s seminal work ‘Le Musée Imaginaire’, Ann-Marie James uses a variety of techniques to create her own imaginary museum; pages are woven together, punched with holes, or a single page is cut and folded to partially reveal the image on the other side. This interest in obscuring and revealing elements of an image is central to John Stezaker’s ‘Masks’ series, in which the facial features of stars in film publicity portraits are overlaid with found postcards depicting landscapes, creating new meanings and characters. This minimalist approach to the layering of imagery is shared by Jorge De La Garza, whose collages combine a range of imagery including sphinxes from gravestones in Attica, women’s bodies, astronomical phenomena and references to commodities in everyday life. Cornelia Parker’s ‘Shared Fate’ gives new meanings to 5 objects – a newspaper, a loaf of bread, a tie, gloves, and cards – all of which have been cut by the guillotine that beheaded Marie Antoinette. In this work, the appropriated object (the guillotine) is at once both present and absent.

Exhibition

In Quotes: Collage And Assemblage In Contemporary Art

30 Aug 2017 – 07 Oct 2017

East Gallery NUA

Norwich, United Kingdom

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Bridget Smith Limited Edition, Vintage Car Club, Whangarei, (2006), 2010 Edition of 20 (+3 APs) 35 x 45cm (approx)

Exhibition

20th Anniversary Limited Editions Showcase

02 Nov 2018 – 10 Nov 2018

Opening: Today, 11:00

Peer

London, United Kingdom

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Artists Drawing a Line Under Torture

18 Nov 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

Bargehouse

London, United Kingdom

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Drawing A Line Under Torture

08 Nov 2017 – 12 Nov 2017

Bargehouse

London, United Kingdom

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Tony Cragg, George and the Dragon, 1984. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist

Exhibition

Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977 – 1986

01 Apr 2015 – 21 Jun 2015

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Wakefield, United Kingdom

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At Altitude

02 Jun 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

Towner Art Gallery

Eastbourne, United Kingdom

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Cornelia Parker: Verso

16 Jun 2017 – 05 Nov 2017

The Whitworth

Manchester, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Brassed Off

10 Sep 2016 – 19 Nov 2016

The Gallery at the Civic

Barnsley, United Kingdom

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Art Fair

Multiplied Art Fair

16 Oct 2015 – 18 Oct 2015

Christie's

London, United Kingdom

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Avoiding The Object (On Purpose): Cornelia Parker in conversation with Darian Leader, 30th Anniversary event

24 Feb 2016

Freud Museum

London, United Kingdom

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Kate Blacker, Mont Saint Victoire, 1982, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist

Exhibition

On Form

26 Jan 2018 – 22 Mar 2018

Peterborough Museum

Peterborough, United Kingdom

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Cornelia Parker

28 Apr 2017 – 21 Jun 2017

Frith Street Gallery, Soho Square

London, United Kingdom

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Billboard for Edinburgh

06 Dec 2014 – 10 Jan 2015

Ingleby Gallery

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Indeterminacy

28 Nov 2014 – 27 Feb 2015

Large Glass

London, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Cornelia Parker

14 Feb 2015 – 31 May 2015

The Whitworth

Manchester, United Kingdom

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Talk

‘Avoiding the Object’ with artist Cornelia Parker, O.B.E.

26 Jun 2018

Freud Museum

London, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements

03 Oct 2015 – 13 Dec 2015

Compton Verney

Compton Verney, United Kingdom

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Exhibition

Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break

12 Oct 2015 – 14 Nov 2015

Alan Cristea Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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Tulip 'Helen Josephine' 1975 by Rory McEwen, Watercolour on vellum

Exhibition

Turkish Tulips

29 Jul 2017 – 05 Nov 2017

The Bowes Museum

Durham, United Kingdom

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Cornelia Parker, Coffee Pot hit by a Hammer, (detail), 2015, from Thirty Pieces of Silver. Courtesy Cornelia Parker and Alan Cristea Gallery, London.

Exhibition

Cornelia Parker. Thirty Pieces of Silver (2015)

17 Mar 2018 – 02 Dec 2018

The New Art Gallery Walsall

Walsall, United Kingdom

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Cornelia Parker

Currently on show

Drawing Biennial 2019

Past events

War Machine

Nature's Alchemy

Print Project Space: New Editions

Cornelia Parker

In Quotes: Collage And Assemblage In Contemporary Art

20th Anniversary Limited Editions Showcase

Artists Drawing a Line Under Torture

Drawing A Line Under Torture

Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977 – 1986

At Altitude

Cornelia Parker: Verso

Brassed Off

Multiplied Art Fair

Avoiding The Object (On Purpose): Cornelia Parker in conversation with Darian Leader, 30th Anniversary event

On Form

Cornelia Parker

Billboard for Edinburgh

Indeterminacy

Cornelia Parker

‘Avoiding the Object’ with artist Cornelia Parker, O.B.E.

Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements

Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break

Turkish Tulips

Cornelia Parker. Thirty Pieces of Silver (2015)

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