Cornelia Parker : (4)

" Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent. " - Cornelia Parker

" I’m from a working-class background – I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. " - Cornelia Parker

" I think I was a late developer because I’d been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. " - Cornelia Parker

" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. " - Cornelia Parker