Never Endings

Cornelia Parker//Ikon Gallery

Cornelia Parker’s association with Ikon is longstanding. In 1983, as an emerging artist, she took part in a group exhibition, Sculpture by Women, and five years later presented her acclaimed installation Thirty Pieces of Silver at the gallery’s old premises on Birmingham’s John Bright Street. In 2000, she was commissioned by Ikon to produce Meteorite Lands in Birmingham’s Bullring, a fireworks display that marked the arrival of the new millennium with the explosion of an extraterrestrial object. She returned in 2007 to present Never Endings, her first survey of new and recent work in the UK since 1998. Characteristically ambitious in both form and content, it consisted of installation, sculpture, photography, sound and video.