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Cornelia Parker on the campaign trail

— by Alyson Walsh

Photo: National Portrait Gallery by Anne-Katrin Purkiss.

I’m interested to see what the official artist of the general election 2017 Cornelia Parker comes up with. Maybe her exploding shed is a clue… ‘Everything I look at now seems political,’ she told Mishal Husain on the Today programme (video clip HERE), ‘even the debris on my kitchen table.’ This could be the perfect role for a woman who has said she ‘never fitted neatly into the arts section,’ and ‘always wanted to kind of trespass elsewhere.’ Parker admits to being as confused by Brexit as the next person, and is looking forward to hitting the north and meeting voters. I doubt she’ll be as easy a pushover as the weak opposition:

‘If people say “You can’t do that”, you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.’

 

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