Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a sculptor and installation artist who often transforms everyday objects by exploding, crushing or suspending them. She trained at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic, then took an MFA at the University of Reading. Her best known works include Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, a garden shed blown apart and hung in fragments, and Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1997, became a Royal Academician in 2010 and was made a CBE in 2022. She lives and works in London.