Cornelia Parker: the art of printing with light and glass
Sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker has long been fascinated with the physical properties of objects and materials
This was particularly evident in a series of works produced by the artist between 2015 and 2017 in which she transformed the three dimensional into the two dimensional by placing objects directly onto photographic plates and exposing them to ultraviolet light.
In this interview for Hayward Gallery Touring the artist discussed how this approach was initially inspired by the work of the pioneering Victorian photographer Henry Fox Talbot, and explained the process that lies behind these fascinating photogravures.
These experiments in photography and printmaking from Cornelia Parker were presented in a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition of twenty large-scale photogravures from three series: Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) (2015), One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (2017).
The exhibition Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break was displayed at galleries around the UK during 2018 and 2019.
‘I’m not trying to depict something, or represent something, I want it just to be itself’
Cornelia Parker
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