As a visual artist, Cornelia Parker is likely to come to mind first as the woman who had the British Army blow up a shed so she could suspend the fragments in a gallery installation, as if recreating a frozen explosive moment.
She also famously put actress Tilda Swinton in a glass case on public view and even created a scaled-down version of the house in Hitchcock’s movie Psycho for the roof garden of the New York Met.
Today, Saturday, February 7th, sees the opening of an exhibition of her work in Bath in the gallery at No 1 Royal Crescent.
Handle With Care: Cornelia Parker and Historic Glass would seem to be a more modest and contained example of her creative abilities as a printer; however, as I discovered, this look at the historic glass and found objects that inspire her work and artistic process is not always as gentle as it seems.
Yesterday morning, the gallery was still being set up, but I slipped in during a coffee break to talk to the Director of Museums for Bath Preservation Trust, Patrizia Ribul.
More info – times, dates and tickets: https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/
