Canberra Glassworks invites you to the official opening of Cobi Cockburn: PINK MOON

Wednesday 31 July at 5pm

PINK MOON
a solo show by Cobi Cockburn at Canberra Glassworks
1 August to 22 September 2024

For the last twenty years, Cobi Cockburn has been exploring the emotional and spiritual connections to the colour white, investigating how abstraction, in combination with the seemingly endless shades of white, can evoke human emotion. Pink Moon marks a departure from her established palette. Here, she uses colour as a metaphor for the human experience of being and feeling. Through creating large-scale yet exquisitely intricate light-based sculptural works, she merges her skills in kiln-formed glass with industrial processes such as neon, architectural glass, and steel.

ABOUT the artist

Cockburn is one of Australia’s foremost award-winning artists working in glass. Two-time winner of the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s prestigious Tom Malone Award, Winner of the JamFactory’s FUSE Glass Prize in 2020 and finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Prize, she has been included in the Lino Tagliapietra Prize and Talente in Germany and Emerge in the USA. Her work is also held in many leading private and public collections around the world such as the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Palm Springs Art Museum. Earning her Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, and her Honours Degree at the Australian National University, Canberra, Cockburn continues to channel her passion for art and education as a lecturer and senior technician at Sydney Collage of the Arts, University of Sydney.

Cobi Cockburn is represented by Dominic Mersch Gallery, Sydney

Pictured above: Cobi Cockburn, Study of Light 1-5, 2024, neon, glass. Courtesy of the artist.