About:
Julie Cockburn is an artist based in London. Her work is defined by how delicately she works and by the transformation of everyday objects into works of art. She can manipulate items such as ceramic sculptures, paintings, photographs, printed paper and books. Julie Cockburn focuses on photographic portraits. She goes on eBay and visits second-hand shops to get vintage images of pin-up girls, high school yearbook head shots, and portraits of children, among others for her art.
Style:
In some of her art she uses a needle and thread, scissors and glue and puts embroidered designs, fragmented images, and, sometimes, found objects, onto portraits, changing them into characters of her own imagination while seeming to draw out characters of each portrait. Her embroidery patterns make the vintage photos look a lot more lively and playful which draws me in. Julie Cockburn also cuts parts of an image and rearranges them, almost like a puzzle, to give a sort of kaleidoscope effect to them.
Julie Cockburn is an artist based in London. Her work is defined by how delicately she works and by the transformation of everyday objects into works of art. She can manipulate items such as ceramic sculptures, paintings, photographs, printed paper and books. Julie Cockburn focuses on photographic portraits. She goes on eBay and visits second-hand shops to get vintage images of pin-up girls, high school yearbook head shots, and portraits of children, among others for her art.
Style:
In some of her art she uses a needle and thread, scissors and glue and puts embroidered designs, fragmented images, and, sometimes, found objects, onto portraits, changing them into characters of her own imagination while seeming to draw out characters of each portrait. Her embroidery patterns make the vintage photos look a lot more lively and playful which draws me in. Julie Cockburn also cuts parts of an image and rearranges them, almost like a puzzle, to give a sort of kaleidoscope effect to them.