Magna Carta (An Embroidery) [SEP] creator
Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is a 2015 work by English installation artist Cornelia Parker. The artwork is an embroidered representation of the complete text and images of an online encyclopedia article for Magna Carta, as it appeared in English Wikipedia on , the 799th anniversary of the document.
Execution.
The hand-stitched embroidery is 1.5 metres wide and nearly 13 metres long. It is a response to the legacy of Magna Carta in the digital era and Parker has referred to it as
"Little Mermaid". Through a process of open submission, Parker chose Georgina Baker, mother of two and Folkestone born and bred. Unlike the idealised Copenhagen version, this is a life-size, life-cast sculpture, celebrating the local and the everyday. Parker’s mermaid.
To celebrate the 800th anniversary of "Magna Carta", Parker created "Magna Carta (An Embroidery)", a hand embroidered representation of the Wikipedia article Magna Carta as it was on 15 June 2014, completed in 2015.