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Cornelia Parker CBE RA

born 1956

The Blue Room 2008
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The Spider that Died in the Tower of London

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
2000
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The Blue Room

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
2008
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In a darkened gallery, charred planks and fragments of a blown-up garden shed hang suspended in mid-air around a single light bulb, casting a tangle of sharp shadows across the walls and floor

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1991
Symmetrical grey-brown inkblot in the manner of a Rorschach test: a tall phallic column above two rounded testicle-like masses, on plain white paper

Pornographic Drawing

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1996

Pornographic Drawing

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1996

Pornographic Drawing

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1996
Symmetrical Rorschach-style blot in grey ferric oxide on white paper: a winged, figure-like form with a long central shaft and two lobed masses, a smaller teardrop-shaped blot beneath.

Pornographic Drawing

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1996

Object That Fell off the White Cliffs of Dover

Cornelia Parker CBE RA
1992
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