Artist Cornelia Parker: ‘My first London home was a squat that got knocked down’

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Cornelia Parker is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary artists, best known for her large sculptures and installations that reconfigure domestic objects. Born in 1956 in Cheshire, Cornelia trained at art colleges in Gloucestershire and Wolverhampton, before settling in London in 1984. She first lived in a squatted house in Leytonstone which later got taken on by housing cooperative. When the house was demolished to make way for the A12, she moved to Shoreditch, where she stayed for the next 20 years. Her best-known work is 1991’s Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View - a garden shed frozen at the moment of explosion, with its fragments suspended around a single light bulb. Cornelia’s work is still exhibited in galleries all over the world. In 2022 she was appointed a CBE for services to the Arts. Cornelia Parker shared her London favourites, memories, pet-hates and everything in between with Robert Elms in 2015.