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Cornelia Parker OBE, RA was born in Cheshire, 1956. She studied at both Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechic, and also went on to receive her MFA from Reading University. Parker holds honorary doctorates from University of Wolverhampton, University, University and Gloucestershire and the University of Manchester.
Her sculptures and installations have featured widely across galleries in the UK and worldwide, often focusing on found objects and how they come to act as symbols for richer concepts through additional interpreted information.