Cornford & Cross are a collaborative pair of UK artists. Matthew Cornford and David Cross began working together while studying at

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in 1987, graduating from the

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in 1991. They have produced installations for City Limits, EAST International, and In the Midst of Things. Their project, ''Childhood’s End'', was produced by Film and Video Umbrella and purchased by the

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in 2001. Their work has been exhibited in the UK at the Bluecoat Gallerybr>
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, the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, the

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, and the

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. Their work has also been displayed in the United States at the Basekamp Gallery of Philadelphia, the Marcel Sitcoske Gallery of San Francisco, and the Nikolai Fine Art gallery of New York City. In 2000 they held an Arts Council residency at the

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, and in 2004 a

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artists’ residency in

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, China.

Selected works

Their 1996 work ''Camelot'', provoked local controversy after the artists erected steel security fencing around grass areas in Albion Square,

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as part of a public commission. In 1998, for ''10'', they advertised in

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for contestants to take part in a beauty contest. A computer analysed photographs of the participants and picked out the most symmetrical faces. The enlarged images of the winners were put in order of their 'percentage of beauty'.Cutting Edge Women's Research Group, ''Digital Desires: Language, Identity and New Technologies'', I.B.Tauris, 2000, pp6-7.

References

External links

Cornford & Cross official site''The Lost Horizon'' exhibit (2003)''Where is the Work?'' exhibit (2005 - 2006)
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