Artist 3 - Cornelia Parker

      

Cornelia Parker is a sculptor and installation artist born in 1956, England. She studied at the Gloucestershire college of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic. She received her MFA from Reading University and her honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton. Parker is married, with one daughter, and lives and works in London. Parker’s mother is German and was in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Her British grandfather fought in the trenches in the First World War. A lot of her pieces show illusion of a bomb exploding and shows destruction froze in time. This is linked to her family members and their time during war.