Julie Cockburn

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Born: 1966
Lives: London

Education
1993-1996 Central St Martins School of Art and Design. BA Fine Art (Sculpture)
1992-1993 Chelsea School of Art. Foundation


Solo Exhibitions
2012
The Photographers' Gallery (Print Sales)
Flowers Gallery, Cork Street

2011
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, John Jones Project Space, London N4
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Matt Roberts Arts, London E8

2010
Filling The Cracks With Ceiling Wax, Flowers East, London E2

2008
What The Eye Doesn't See, Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8
Bridging The Generation Gap, Forster Gallery, London EC2 (cat)

2007
Come Into My Beautiful Garden, Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8

2006
Julie Cockburn, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Glos (cat)
Plan B, jaggedart, London W1 (cat)

2002
Whenwood, Pea Gallery, Clerkenwell, London EC1

1997
Blue Sky, Green Fields, 126 Curtain Road, London EC2


Group Exhibitions
2012
Artists' Postcards - The Jeremy Cooper Collection, Spike Island, Bristol
Heads, Flowers Gallery, New York
CQ Mutiny Gallery 2012 - Smile Harder or Die Trying, Galerie Ramakers, The Hague, Netherlands (curated by Joncquil)
Lot's Wife, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury (curated by Karen MacDonald)
The New Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print, Photo50, London Art Fair (curated by Sue Steward)
East Wing X, The Courtauld Institute, London

2011
Christmas Show, Stephane Simoens, Belgium
Hidden In Plain Sight, Galerie8, London E8
Paris Photo with Flowers East, Paris
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London W1
Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project, Collette, Paris
Photography As Object, Sumarria Lunn, London W1
Art Car Boot Fair with Posted Projects, London E1
Exam, Transition Gallery, London E8 (curated by Edd Pearman)
Print Sales at Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, The Photographers' Gallery at Ambika P3, London, W1


2010
Marmite Prize for Painting, Central Art Gallery, Tameside and touring (cat)
ArtSway Open 2010, ArtSway, Hampshire (Shortlisted)
Uncertain States 2010, East Gallery, London E1 (curated by Will F. Turner) (cat)
Paris Photo with Flowers East, Paris
Salon Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts, London
Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Constructed Image in New British Photography, Flash Forward Festival, Toronto
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, Jerwood Space, London SE1 and touring
Double Trouble, Blyth Gallery, London (curated by Mindy Lee)
Keep Me Posted, Posted, London E8 (curated by Julia Royse)
Sarcophagus of the Kingdom, I-MYU Gallery, London EC2 (cat)
In Miss Rowe's Footsteps, Eagle Gallery, London EC1
Works on Paper, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire (cat)

2009
Flowers Autumn Selection 2009, Flowers East, London E2
The Russell Herron Collection: "This Was Now" (curated by Harry Pye) Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Modern British Art and the Environment, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Art Meets Fashion, Nurjungkunst, Munich (cat)
On the Fractured Stage of the Book, Eagle Gallery, London EC1
The Golden Record, The Collection, Lincoln

2008
Salon 08, Matt Roberts Arts at VINEspace, London, E2
In Search of Beauty and Wellbeing, Menier Gallery, London SE1
SPACE NOW, The Triangle, London E8 - (curated by Caroline Douglas)
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Book Things and Word Works, Eagle Gallery, London EC1

2007
Artsway Open 07, Hampshire, UK - Shortlisted
Allegory, Winston Wachter, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London SE1 and touring
Art and Psyche: The Freudian Legacy, CDS Gallery, New York
Salon 07, Matt Roberts Arts at Seven Seven Contemporary, London E8
Ten at One, Forster Gallery, London EC2
Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London, W1
Seen from the Wings of a Butterfly, Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark
Mapping, Bury Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Lancashire, UK
Flora, Eagle Gallery, London EC1

2006
On the Fractured Stage of the Book, ICA, London W1, in conjunction with London Artists Book Fair, curated by Emma Hill
The Furniture Shop, Pavia, Italy – curated by William West and Elisa del Prete (cat)

2005
An Open Book, Orleans House, Richmond
Metamorphosis, thecentralhouse with Gallery One, Barnes
On Paper, Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London WC1
New Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Migrations, Eagle Gallery, London, EC1

2004
Rosetta Live, Riverside Studios, London
Ocean Flowers: Impressions From Nature In The Victorian Era, Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA
Constructive Paper, The Harley Gallery, Nottingham

2003
Artist Books, Prints and Multiples Exhibition, The Eagle Gallery, London EC1
Science Fact, Science Fiction, Pea Gallery, London EC1

1996
Top Marks, Davies Street Gallery, London W1

1995
King Sturge Art Prize, Davies Street Gallery, London W1
Directions 1995, Lethaby Gallery, London WC1

1994
Disclosure, Charlotte Road, London EC2




Bibliography
Photography as Object, WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, July 2011
Julie Cockburn at Matt Roberts Arts, SPOONFED online review, George Binning, May 2011
Paper, Rock, Scissors, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, October 2010 Volume 157, Issue no 7781, Diane Smyth, Front cover and pp 27-33
SEESAW MAGAZINE, Issue 12 Autumn 2010, Edited by Aaron Schuman, www.seesawmagazine.com
Previews, Rachel Potts. GARAGELAND, issue 7, Dec 2008
The Liquid Page. Brian Dillon, FRIEZE MAGAZINE, Issue 118 October 2008
The Liquid Page, BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER No. 43 August 2008, pp 21-22, ISSN 1754-9087 (print) ISSN 1754-9086 (online)
Julie Cockburn exhibition, London, WALLPAPER.COM, 9 June 2008
The Wonders of the Recurated Wellcome Collection, THE LANCET, 2007; 370:125-126, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Scissor Sister, GALLERIES MAGAZINE, October 2006
The Fine Art Of Investing In An Original, THE INDEPENDENT, 15 January 2005
Bookworks. ARTREVIEW, December/January 2003
Playing Card. Matt Gibberd, WORLD OF INTERIORS, July 2001 issue



Grants/Awards
2010 Salon Art Prize Winner, Matt Roberts Arts

Projects
2011 - 'The World in London' Portrait Commission, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2011 - 'Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project', 20th anniversary issue, October 2011
2008 - Speaker "The Liquid Page" Symposium, Tate Britain

Publications
Artists' Postcards, Jeremy Cooper. January 2012 - Reaktion Books - ISBN-13: 978-1861898524
Efe 24, no. 2, May 2011 - ISBN 9-8-0007281-0
The Marmite Prize for Painting 2010 (cat)
Uncertain States 2010 - A Year In Print, East Gallery. Exhibition (cat)
Uncertain States, Issue 5, November 2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 (cat)
Uncertain States, Issue 2, January 2010. (www.uncertainstates.com)
The Liquid Page, published by UCCA - ISBN 1-870522-50-8
Bridging the Generation Gap, Forster Gallery, 2008 (cat)
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 (cat)
Set Fra Sommerfugle Vingen, Thomas Wolsing, Denmark, 2007 (cat)
Julie Cockburn, Campden Gallery, 2006 (cat)
Plan B, jaggedart with foreword by Pryle Berhman, 2006 (cat)
The Furniture Shop, Pavia, Elisa del Prete, 2006 (cat)




Collections

John Jones, London
Yale Center For British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA
The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
British Land, London, UK
Goss-Michael Foundation, USA
The Ivy, London, UK
Private collections worldwide