Cornelia Parker: ‘I don’t want to tick anyone else’s boxes’

Cornelia Parker has always cut a fiercely independent figure in the art world. On the eve of a major show in Manchester, she talks about drawing with bullets, casting cracks in the pavement – and growing up with a mother who’d been in the Luftwaffe‘I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don’t think,” Cornelia Parker says, with the briefly explosive laugh that punctuates most of her efforts at self-analysis. “I’ve always wanted to kind of trespass elsewhere as much as p