One More Time

The St Pancras International station hosts Cornelia Parker RA’s major installation, One More Time, conceived to invoke meditative thoughts on the passage of time, life and mortality

<i>One More Time</i>, 2015, by Royal Academician Cornelia Parker for Terrace Wires at St Pancras International station, co-presented by HS1 Ltd. and the Royal Academy of Arts © Tim Whitby, Getty Images
Suspended from St Pancras International’s Grade 1 listed Barlow Shed roof, Cornelia Parker RA’s One More Time is a working replica of the station’s iconic DENT London clock, reversed out in black with white hands and numerals and silver detail.
It is made from aluminium, steel and Jesmonite and measures 5.44 metres in diameter. The black clock is situated 16 metres in front of its inspiration, so for those alighting from the trains, the original face will gradually appear eclipsed.

Cornelia Parker RA said One More Time is conceived to invoke meditative thoughts on the passage of time, life and mortality, “The clock is the most conscious focus of a railway station, a dominant force. Everyone is watching the clock, checking if they are late. The piece will introduce the idea of a parallel frame of reference, that of a slower astronomical time.”

The artwork is made with DENT London Clocks, manufacturers of the present clock at St Pancras and the Great Clock in the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben.

<i>One More Time</i>, 2015, by Royal Academician Cornelia Parker for Terrace Wires at St Pancras International station, co-presented by HS1 Ltd. and the Royal Academy of Arts © Tim Whitby, Getty Images
One More Time, 2015, by Royal Academician Cornelia Parker for Terrace Wires at St Pancras International station, co-presented by HS1 Ltd. and the Royal Academy of Arts © Tim Whitby, Getty Images

until November 2015
Cornelia Parker RA
One More Time

St Pancras International
Euston Road, London

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