Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker has generously produced The Hours, 2022, a limited edition print to coincide with the exhibition, Cornelia Parker, at Tate Britain, 19 May – 16 October 2022.

Inspired by the techniques of pioneering nineteenth-century photographer William Fox Talbot, Parker has created The Hours, 2022, by arranging a collection of glassware on top of a chemically coated polymer plate and exposing it to ultraviolet light. The glassware casts shadows to create a photographic positive on the plate which is developed, inked and put through an etching press with paper. This method creates an illusion of depth with an ethereal effect. The areas of glassware that make contact with the printing plate are in razor-sharp focus, whilst all other areas soften and recede, the curved form of the glass captured in hazy detail. Parker started using glass objects in her print-making in 2017 when she made the photogravure series Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass and has often revisited it since. For Parker, the interest in using glass objects with the photogravure process is the way light travels through the object to leave a ghostly impression on the printing plate. It’s part of Parker’s longstanding fascinations with the effects of light and shadow, positive and negative space, and the transformation of three-dimensional objects into flattened form.

Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and comes unframed. Prices of the artwork are liable to change. As a limited edition sells out, prices of the artwork are subject to increase and the price will be clearly indicated.

• Artist Cornelia Parker
• Artwork The Hours
• Dimensions 80.3 x 64.2 cm
• Material Polymer Gravure on Magnani Litho 350 gsm
• Edition 2
• Date of work 2022

Cornelia Parker (b. 1956, Cheshire, UK) is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary artists. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world. Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, she engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights.

Her first major solo exhibition, Thirty Pieces of Silver, took place at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 1988. Since then she has gone on to exhibit all over the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2019); The Palace of Westminster, London (2018); Hayward touring exhibition, UK (2018/19); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016); Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (2015); Terrace Wires Commission, St Pancras International Station, London (2015); British Library, London, touring to Whitworth Gallery, Manchester and Bodleian Library, Oxford (2015); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2014). Parker's work is held in numerous collections worldwide including Tate, London; British Council, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut.

In 1997 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2010. Parker was the UK's official Election Artist for the 2017 general election, making several artworks that are now housed in The Parliamentary Art Collection. Cornelia Parker lives and works in London.