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Cornelia Parker Cornelia Parker, is a London-based sculptor and installation artist internationally recognized for her multi-layered irony which favors "exploded" views, cartoon deaths and "inhaling-exhaling". Parker studied art and received her MFA at Reading University in 1982, an honorary doctorate from University of Wolverhamptonin 2000. A Turner Prize nominated artist in 1997, Parker is renowned for her site-specific work which exist only for that time and place, such as Edge of England (1999), Subconscious of a Monument (2002), and The Distance (A kiss with added String (2003). With art pieces such as Churchill's Cigar, Feather from Benjamin Franklin's Attic, A Feather from Freud's Pillow, Shared Fate Thirty Pieces of Silver Parker finds poetry in the most prosaic objects. Her works are included in the London Tate Gallery and the MOMA New York.
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