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Published in The Observer, June 2011
It is Cornelia Parker’s bronze, The Folkestone Mermaid, on Sunny Sands beach, that the townspeople will want to claim as their own. It’s a delightful joke, of course, this nicking of Copenhagan’s most famous landmark, but Parker has made a beautiful work in its own right. Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid’s jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/26/folkestone-triennial-review
Published in The Daily Telegraph, June 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7838693/Cornelia-Parker-interview.html
Published in The Guardian , May 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/25/cornelia-parker-interview
Published in The Scotsman, May 2010
The most striking of these new works is Landscape with Gun and Tree by Cornelia Parker. She has made a replica of a shotgun nine metres high in steel and rusty iron. It leans against a tree, its barrel cradled in the upper branches as though a giant had casually left it there, gone away and forgotten it. The iconography of gun and tree invokes the long tradition of sporting portraits. The model is Robert Wilson’s own gun and so obliquely, it implies his portrait.
http://news.scotsman.com/arts/Art-review-Jupiter-Artland.6300419.jp
Published in The Times, May 2010
“I’m fascinated by man and nature. For me, the edge of the land has always been defined by a gun,” said Cornelia Parker, a Turner Prize-nominated artist whose work Landscape with Gun and Tree is one of three new exhibits revealed yesterday at Jupiter Artland, Scotland’s most remarkable landscape art project.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7125909.ece
Published in Art on Paper, July 2007
Published in Flash Art, June 2008
‘Chomsky’s anecdotes, and the detailed information that he relays in a wide-sweeping vision of our decadent and deadly culture, hold the viewers in thrall… It is the compassion with which Chomsky delivers his statement and the depth of thought which underpins all his answers that irresistibly engenders a deep adoration for this man.’
Published in Art of England, April 2008
Published in Time Out, 5 March 2008
‘I was cutting up headlines into phrases and [my daughter] began writing them out as part of her homework. She’s doesn’t understand what she’s writing yet – things like “Catastrophe is always elsewhere” – but we’re all bombarded with this weird concrete poetry now, either in the papers or in email spam.’ - Cornelia Parker
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/features/4366/Cornelia_Parker-interview.html
Published in Metro, 20 February 2008
‘She avoids straightforward diatribe, however, creating brief portraits of silence. Between Chomsky’s answers her voice is absent. Instead, we see Chomsky listening, blinking, nodding, gulping, flaring nostrils, pursing lips and adjusting his glasses.’
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