New Work by Turner Prize Nominated Artist, Cornelia Parker, Loses Wing in Cuts Campaign

LONDON.- A new work by Turner Prize nominated artist, Cornelia Parker, created specially for the campaign led by artists against funding cuts, was released today. The work shows Antony Gormley’s celebrated Angel of the North with one of its wings lopped off. The caption reads: Why clip the wings of an industry that is soaring? It’s a false economy to cut the arts. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, Cornelia Parker has became known for her installations and interventions, including Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991 (Tate Modern) where she suspended the fragments of a garden shed, blown up for her by the British Army, and The Maybe, a collaboration with actress Tilda Swinton, at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995. In 2003 she wrapped Rodin’s Kiss with a mile of a string to make a new work

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