Artist videos referenced in sketchbook: Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is an artist I have admired for a long while for her installation work and sculpting. While I am not a huge lover of installation, there is something in Parker's work that entices me.
I wanted more knowledge on the artist so gathered a more personal view by watching her episode of What Artists Do All Day.

I found the programme particularly interesting for it let the artist speak for herself. I was intrigued and inspired by all of the work she was producing and displaying within the video. I was introduced to more work by the artist that I was, until now, completely unaware of. I was definitely intrigued  by her exhibition "The Maybe" in which she encased found objects in glasses cases and put them all together in the same room. This seemed very relevant to the ideas I was researching within my exploration of Arte Povera.

She used coats, gloves, but the most well known and memorable from the piece was the following:

Certainly not a found artist, but instead a friend asleep in one
of the glass cases.

I was also enticed by her work with walls. It was relevant to my project without me even having knowledge of it. Parker had been passing the same wall by her home on numerous occassions and during the filming of the programme had finally got around to photographing it. She had been travelling and had photographed prison walls, sacred walls. This was simply an ordinary wall. 

I have seen this sculpture exhibited in The Whitworth Gallery:

I was obviously unaware of all the work behind this project when I saw the piece, but now it is all very relevant. 

It would be interesting to explore this oil and milk spills as Parker has done, as opposed to the plain walls I have been working with. I definitely wish to experiment more in Parker's manner, taking inspiration from her travels, but also from the mundane.