Julie Cockburn works with found images and objects, transforming them into new works of art.  Using her own personal visual language, Cockburn embellishes carefully sourced second-hand photographs with embroidery, collage, screen printing and painting to produce her ongoing series of portraits and landscapes. Composition, colour, texture and inherent meaning are fundamental to the decisions she makes when choosing her found imagery and executing her transformations. Cockburn’s whole practice has a meditative quality apparent in the attention to detail and meticulous needlework in her embroidered works. 

Cockburn studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, graduating in 1996. Her works are represented in renowned collections such as the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, The Netherlands; Art In Embassies, USA; British Land, London, UK; Caldic Collection, The Netherlands; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Pier 24, San Francisco, USA; The Arts Club, London, UK; The Wellcome Collection, London, UK; Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA; Museum Voorlinden, NL; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA.