Cornelia Parker

She often focuses on people, places and ideas that are so established in the public consciousness they have become monuments, or even clichés. From a feather extracted from Sigmund Freud’s pillow to flattened brass band, from a silver spoon to the height of Niagara Falls – the artist’s work ranges from the microscopic to the epic, conceptually unravelling icons of both high and low culture.

Central to this exhibition are a series of new sculptural pieces each entitled Transitional Object. These take the form of shelters made from nets suspended from the gallery ceiling. The installation evokes a temporary encampment, the nets drape and overlap, the moiré of black meshes resembling minimalist drawings in three dimensions.

In other works Parker explores the idea of ‘Latent News’, a surrealist game in which newspaper articles are cut into individual words and phrases and rapidly reassembled to make some other kind of sense. (The ‘cut-up’ technique has long been used by writers and musicians, and now has become even more ubiquitous in the form of Spam.) With the help of the innocent hand of her 6-year-old daughter, Lily, new mantras are spelled out. Exploring the idea in another way is a series of photographs – from images of discarded newspapers to the pitches staked out by newspaper photographers at the East End funeral of Reggie Kray. Also on show are a number of Bullet Drawings made by drawing lead bullets into wire – like the Transitional Objects these works have a playful relationship with early minimalism.