Cornelia Parker

"I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why."

"My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want."

"I like to take man-made objects and push them to the point where they almost lose their reference, so that they become something else, take on other alliances."