A Southbank Centre/Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, Cornelia Parker’s One Day This Glass Will Break at Kilmarnock’s Dick Institute features twenty large-scale photogravures from three experimental series: Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (2017); One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015). Brought together here for the first time, they explore the artist’s fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories.

The works arose from Parker’s investigations into photogravure – a process which produces an image through the exposure of a photographic positive onto a copper printing plate. Inspired by the 19th-century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, Parker combined two of his early techniques, solar prints and the photogravure, creating a new hybrid form of print by exposing three-dimensional objects to ultraviolet light. In these works, she uses found objects such as a tower of crystal glasses, a shattered light bulb and melting ice cubes, with the resulting prints capturing their shadows in a spectral still-life.

The Hayward Gallery organises contemporary art exhibitions touring to galleries, museums and other publicly funded venues throughout Britain. These exhibition are seen by up to half a million people in over 45 cities and towns each year.

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