A Feather from Freud’s Pillow

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Cornelia Parker RA (b. 1956) lives and works in London. One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, she works across sculpture, installation, embroidery, drawing, photography and film to investigate processes of transformation and suspension and to explore the times in which we live. Parker has presented numerous major commissions and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, notably at Tate Britain (2022), the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2019), Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster (2017) and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016). In 2010, Parker was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts and made an OBE. She received a CBE in 2022. In 2017, she was appointed as the first female Election Artist for the United Kingdom General Election. Her works are held in public and private collections around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Fundación “la Caixa” in Barcelona, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Places

Subjects

psychoanalysis, pillow

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Cornelia Parker (1956 - )

Title

A Feather from Freud’s Pillow

Portfolio Title

Freud Museum Tenth Anniversary Portfolio

Edition

45/100

Date

1997

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 49.30 cm, width: 63.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Freud Museum, December 1998

Inscription

verso: 45/100 Cornelia Parker 97

Provenance

Freud Museum

GAC number

17371/8