Cornelia Parker at The Whitworth

Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter, An Exploded View

The newly jessied-up Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester [and very nice it looks too] has opened with a marvellous – and I use the word advisedly – show by Cornelia Parker, part new work created for the gallery, part retrospective. And it’s stunning. Provocative. Political – in the widest, non-Party, non-partisan sense. Democratic. Engaging. Fun. Emotional. Intellectual. Just stunning.

Cornelia Parker:” Life, Death” – Hand-embroidered by prisoners in H.M. Prisons

Cornelia Parker : Self Portrait as a Square/Circle/Line/Triangle – Blood & Pencil

 

Cornelia Parker : The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached) – Rodin’s The Kiss plus a mile of string

 

Cornelia Parker : War Room – Perforated paper negatives left over from production of British Legion remembrance poppies

 

Molly Ernestine Boiling: Two Shady Characters Hanging Around the Gallery

Cornelia Parker was quite insistent that visitors to the Gallery should be able to take photographs, as long as they didn’t use flash. These photographs of the exhibits are by Molly Ernestine Boiling.