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This Week's Guest:
Cornelia Parker
Sunday 16 February
Repeated
Friday 21 February | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Cornelia Parker.
Cornelia grew up in the country where she lived on a small holding looked after by her father. She spent much of her time mucking out pigs, milking cows, laying hedges and tying up tomato plants. Her means of escape was to run into the fields to daydream.
English and Art were her favourite subjects, and a trip to the Tate Gallery in London with her school aged 15, confirmed that Cornelia wanted to be an artist. After studying art at college, Cornelia turned her hand to sculpture, inspired by the Arte Povera movement in Italy which rejected traditional marble and bronze and used any materials they chose. She developed her style by mixing with other students and collaborating with theatre groups.
Cornelia liked the idea of her work being ephemeral and didn’t worry about it’s existence beyond an exhibition. For her first solo exhibition in 1980 she showed a number of pieces and because she had nowhere to store them, told the organisers that afterwards they could give them to local schools. “I don’t know what they did with them!” she says.
After a car accident in 1994 Cornelia began to realise the importance of keeping some of her work and she began to be represented by a gallery. She broadened her collaborations - for her piece ‘Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View’ she got the British Army to blow up a shed so that she could hang it back together again, suspended around a lightbulb. For her piece ‘Wedding Ring Drawing’ she employed a silversmith who could draw a gold wedding ring into a very fine thread.
In 1995 she worked with the actress Tilda Swinton on a project ‘The Maybe’ which included Tilda herself exhibited in a glass case. In 1997 Cornelia was nominated for the Turner Prize for her work.
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1. ‘Maximizing the Audience’
Performer: Wim Mertens
Composer: Wim Mertens
Publisher: Usura Music
CD Title: ‘Maximizing the Audience’
Track: 3
Label: Les Disques du Crepuscule
Rec No: TW1 480-2
2. ‘In a Broken Dream’
Performer: Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart
Composer: D Bently
Publisher: Young Blood Music
CD Title: A series - 25 Years of Rock and Roll 1972
Track: 11
Label: Connoisseur Collection
Rec No: YRNR CD 72
3. ‘Cry Baby’
Performer: Janis Joplin
Composer: J Ragovoy, C Taylor
Publisher: Ragmar Music Corp
CD Title: Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits
Track: 3
Label: CBS
Rec No: CD 32190
4. ‘Lay Lady Lay’
Performer: Bob Dylan
Composer: Bob Dylan
Publisher: Sony Music Publishing
CD Title: The Best of Bob Dylan
Track: 8
Label: Columbia
Rec No: Sony TV 28 CD
5. ‘Dionysus’
Performer: Jocelyn Pook
Composer: Jocelyn Pook
Publisher: Real World
CD Title: Untold Things
Track: 1
Label: Real World
Rec No: CDRW 93
6. Three excerpts from ‘159 to 161’
Composer: Graeme Miller
NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE
7. ‘It’s a Man’s World’
Performer: James Brown
Composer: James Brown and Betty Newsome
Publisher: Dynatone Publishing Co./ Clamike Music
CD Title: A Bronx Tale
Track: 20
Label: EPIC
Rec No: 474806 2
8. Jesus’ Blood Never Failed me Yet
Performer: Unknown singer, Gavin Bryars and Tom Waits
Composer: Gavin Bryars
Publisher: Point Music
CD Title: Jesus’ Blood Never Failed me Yet
Track: 5
Label: Point Music/Philips Classics
Rec No: 438-823-2
Favourite record: ‘Cry Baby’
Book: World of Wonder: 10,000 things every child should know
Luxury: a solar powered vibrator
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