Cornelia Parker is one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. She studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art & Design and at Wolverhampton Polytechnic before receiving her MA in Fine Arts from the University of Reading in 1982. Her first major solo exhibition, Thirty Pieces of Silver, took place at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and in 1991 her ground-breaking show Cold Dark Matter opened at Chisenhale, London. In 1997 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. In 2010 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, later becoming a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2022.
Parker has had solo exhibitions in some of the most prestigious museums worldwide, including The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2019 and Tate Britain, 2022. We will be exhibiting a selection of photogravure prints from her series ‘Through a Glass Darkly.’ Inspired by nineteenth-century photography pioneer William Fox Talbots’ first photographic images, Parker uses printmaking to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Cristea Roberts Gallery has been publishing Parker's editions since 2008. She lives and works in London.