About the work

This drawing imagines the very big with the very small. This model of the pre-Copernican cosmos was made with cups, plates, and bowels in the kitchen.

Date and country of birth

1976, GB

About the artist

Born 1976 London, Corin Sworn lives and works in Glasgow. Graduated from University of British Columbia (1999); Central Saint Martins, London (2002); and The Glasgow School of Art (2009).

Her works are held in public and private collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; McManus Galleries, Dundee; Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Portugal.

Selected solo exhibitions include Museum of the Himalayas, Shanghai (2019); Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh (2019); WORK HOUSE, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2018); The Time of the Foxes, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok (2016); The Coat, screening, ICA, London (2016); La Giubba, Natalia Hug, Cologne (2015); Vibrant Matter, Langen Foundation, Neuss (2014); The Rag Papers, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2013); An Endless Renovation, Tate Britain, London (2011); and The Lens Prism, Tramway, Glasgow (2010). Selected group exhibitions include How to Drift, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2017); A Synchronology: The Contemporary And Other Times, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow (2017); You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); 21 REVOLUTIONS: TWO DECADES OF CHANGING MINDS, Intermedia, Glasgow (2012); Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011); and Morality, Act 5: Power Alone, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2010).

Awards include being shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award (2018); receiving the Leverhulme Prize (2015); and the MaxMara Art Prize for Women, London (2014).