JULIE COCKBURN at the Forster Gallery, LDN, 6 Jun - 6 Jul

Exhibition Description:

Julie Cockburn delivers an implicit awareness of the confines of expectation and taste. The gendered and class based languages of decoration and craft are central to the innate politics of her work. First and foremost, these works are exquisite meditations on creativity and memory; the possibilities that lie at the heart of personal and collective languages of reference.

Cockburn's work involves hundreds of neat stitches either obliterating a face, silencing a paper mouth, defining the outlines of birds or childish abstract paintings, while contrasting them with discarded print somehow made more brilliant, rendered fresh and new, shining and bright against dulled faded backgrounds.

All of these situations are created from using a potent mixture of nostalgia and pathos for the neglected and the trashed. Cockburn's works are rendered uncanny, even magical, by her staccato process of intuitive response and laborious intervention.

Description:

Image: Suture Cutie, 2008, embroidery on found image, backing fabric, 51 x 38.5cm

These pieces are elaborate, intriguing and beautifully executed, with an autonomy that makes one want to believe their existence. Cockburn lives and works in London. Her work can be found in both public and private collections worldwide.

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