Appointing an official Election Artist to create work for the parliamentary art collection might seem risky. Yet since 2001 that is what the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art has done, with the artist Cornelia Parker commissioned last year to cover the snap election that bit back.
01 March 2018, The Tablet
Electoral optics: artist Cornelia Parker's coverage of the 2017 general election
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