Still life, beating heart
The work of south coast artist Cobi Cockburn graces collections around the world, and now the ANU alumna has had an entire exhibition purchased by a leading gallery.
Glass art is, in some ways, as far from the natural world as you can get. It has been shaped, moulded, blown and bashed by human hands into a form that is anything but natural.
But for Cobi Cockburn – a rising star of the art world and a graduate of the ANU School of Art – art can be a way to bring the natural world to life, and glass is just one of the mediums she uses to do that. Her works, many of which highlight the natural lines and contours of the environment, bring the vibrancy and the beating heart of the Australian landscape into abstract life in the often clinical confines of studio and exhibition spaces.