Tag: Cornelia Parker

  • Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis

    Cornelia Parker, Agnes Denes and Otobong Nkanga are among 15 artists hoping to change our response to the climate crisis. But can an art show alter people’s behaviour?

  • Rachael Louise Bailey – interview: ‘It’s good to work with something that stirs you’

    From the synthetic detritus of the oyster industry washed up on the Kent coast and the organic softness of sheep’s fleece, Bailey conjures up fascinating work. She explains what motivates her and how she became obsessed by these two very…

  • Cornelia Parker

    From the shed blown up by the British army to drone-shot footage of the Commons Chamber to a new work referencing Brexit, from the vast to the intimate, this major survey takes us through 30 years of Parker’s work

  • Catsou Roberts – interview: ‘It is our duty to the NHS to elicit the production of remarkable artwork’

    Roberts, the director of Vital Arts, which commissions projects for five London hospitals, talks about the range of artists and work involved and the transformative power of art on the wellbeing of patients and staff

  • Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, extension

    Jamie Fobert Architects’ new wing for Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge opened this month, doubling the education space and bringing its facilities bang up to date. How harmonious is the marriage of this incisive 21st-century building with the Georgian and modernist…

  • A History of Drawing

    The inaugural exhibition at the Camberwell College of Arts’ new space is a sensitive, nuanced look at eight decades of a core artistic form

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017

    The RA’s annual open submission exhibition presents a shifting ‘kaleidoscope’ of contemporary art – but what does it show us about art now?

  • Cornelia Parker

    The new works of the often-brilliant Cornelia Parker act as a cautionary tale for artists who rush too hastily into the political

  • Nicky Hirst: Real Size

    Nicky Hirst’s sculptures and installations quietly and skillfully explore the consonances and dissonances between object, context and materials. Funny, poetic, profound and wistful, the nine pieces – comprising mostly found objects, arranged or crafted in unlikely compositions – in this…

  • Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986

    In the purpose-built Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Arts Council Collection has brought together the work of 40 artists from between 1977-1986, a period that saw the emergence of a new young generation of British sculptors