Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is best known for large-scale installations such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), where she had a garden shed blown up by the

British Army and suspended the fragments as if s

uspending the explosion process in time. In the centre was a light which cast the shadows of the wood dramatically on the walls of the room

Parker's compelling transformations of familiar, everyday objects investigate the nature of matter, test physical properties and play on private and public me

aning and value. Using materials that have a history loaded with association, a feather from Sigmund Freud's pillow for example, Parker has employed numerous methods of exploration- suspending, exploding, crushing, stretching objects and even language through her titles.