Cobi Cockburn

Born: Sydney, NSW

Lives and works: Kiama, NSW

Artist Statement

Pink Moon, 2024
Glass, neon light

Colour breathes where silence once was.

Light moves. Colour shifts. Presence changes.

Measured, intentional, and specific.

What is felt cannot be said.

This is a meditation on presence, loss, and love,

seen through the fleeting weight of light.

About the Artist

A mastery of technique and pioneering spirit firmly establish Kiama-based Cobi Cockburn as one of Australia’s foremost award-winning artists working in glass. Two-time winner (four-time finalist) of the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s  prestigious Tom  Malone  Award, winner of the JamFactory’s FUSE Glass Prize in 2020 and the first glass finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Prize, Cobi continues to make strides in the Australian artworld and beyond to include the Lino Tagliapietra Prize and Talente in Germany and Emerge in the USA. Earning her Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, and her Honours Degree at the Australian National University, Canberra, Cobi continues to channel her passion for art and education as a lecturer and senior technician at Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney).