Current Exhibitions

travelling light

New work in glass by cobi cockburn

Exhibition runs 23 June - 5 August

Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm.

Quiet, powerful landscapes captured in glass

Although her inspiration is the majestic natural environment of her NSW South Coast home, glass artist Cobi Cockburn works with quiet, subtle colours to capture her feelings for her subject matter. Cockburn is exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition called Travelling Light at Canberra Glassworks Gallery, Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm from 23 June to August 5. An opening reception will be held at 6pm on Friday 25 June. The artist will give a talk about her work in the gallery on Saturday 26 June at 10.30. This is a free event and is open to the public.

Cockburn's practice is a fascinating mix of international travel and home life in country New South Wales. She has been acknowledged both here and overseas for her poetic language and innovative expressions in glass winning several of the world's most prestigious glass art prizes including the Talente Prize in Germany, the E-merge Glass Prize in the US and Australia's Ranamok and Tom Malone Glass Awards. These heady achievements are a notable contrast to that which feeds her art. Her bushland surroundings are places of contemplation, calm and stillness. These places she says evoke "distance and memory, both spiritual and physical" and she captures her feelings and experiences of these places in her pale colours, shades of white which she describes as being 'beyond colour'.

Cockburn is an Honours graduate of the Glass Workshop at the ANU's School of Art. She has exhibited widely and her work is held in major collections throughout Australia and overseas. Development of the works featured in Travelling Light was supported by an Australia Council New Work grant.

Phone 02 6260 7005 for more information.