A Side of England

Details

Cornelia Parker (b. 1956)
A Side of England
chalk retrieved from a cliff fall at Beachy Head, South Coust, England, wire and mesh
65 x 65in. (165 x 165cm.)
installation dimensions variable
Executed in 1999

Provenance

Frith Street Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

N. Princenthal, ‘Cornelia Parker: The Dream Life of Objects’, in Art in America, Sept 2000 (illustrated, p. 114).

Exhibited

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Cornelia Parker, 2000 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled
to Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art and San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Lot Essay

‘One of the things that lured me into art was the attraction of another kind of space, a space of vision and creativity. It seemed a very enriching world to me, and that was the world I wanted to be in, rather than in the drudgery of peasant farming which is where I come from. As soon as I gravitated towards Sculpture I found my spiritual home.’ (C. Parker, quoted in, L. Tickner, ‘A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker’, in Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice,
Maldon and Oxford 2004, n.p.).

A Side of England

Lot Essay

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