Julie Cockburn
Born London, 1966
education
1993-1996
Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. Fine Art (Sculpture) BA
1992 1993
Chelsea College of Art, Foundation
solo exhibitions
2021
Painting the Photograph, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2020
Games We Play, Kings Cross public art project with The Photographers’ Gallery, London
3:2, Bo Lee Gallery, London (online)
Flowers Gallery 50th Anniversary, Flowers Gallery Kingsland Road, London
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery London
Quiet, The Earth Issue, (online)
Summer Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street
Games We Play, King’s Cross curated by The Photographers’ Gallery
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery (online)
The Five Senses film screening at The New Cut Cinema, Halesworth, Suffolk
2019
Telling It Slant, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Ma, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels
2017
All Work and No Play, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2016
Layer Opacity, The Photographers' Gallery (Print Sales Gallery)
2014
Waiting Room, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
2013
Slight Exposure, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2012
Conversations, Lianzhou Foto Festival, (curated by Diane Smyth)
Conversations, The Photographers' Gallery (Print Sales Gallery)
Portraits and Landscapes, Flowers, Cork Street, London
2011
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, John Jones Project Space, London
The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Matt Roberts Arts, London
2010
Filling The Cracks With Ceiling Wax, Flowers East, London
2008
What The Eye Doesn't See, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
Bridging The Generation Gap, Forster Gallery, London (cat.)
2007
Come Into My Beautiful Garden, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
2006
Julie Cockburn, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Glos (cat.)
Plan B, jaggedart, London (cat.)
2002
Whenwood, Pea Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
selected group exhibitions
2020
3:2, Bo Lee Gallery, London (online)
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery London
Quiet, The Earth Issue, (online)
2019
Image 2019, Messums, Wiltshire
Habiter L'intime, Fondation Thalie, Brussels
Scenarios of Desire, II Emergent, Grote Markt 26, 8630 Veurne, Belgium
2018
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Work in Process, Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery, London
2017
In My View, Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery, London
At Home She's a Tourist, Copeland Gallery, London (Curated by Tom Lovelace)
Without Camera, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Reportrait, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
Migrations, Eagle Gallery, London
Insights, curated by Alexander Montague-Sparey, Photofairs San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
2016
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Colours of the season, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, Netherlands
Out of Obscurity, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy, London
L'Autre Visage, Pole Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Photo London with Flowers Gallery, London
Allure [Fr. style, elegance] Photographs from the Susanne von Meiss Collection, C|O Berlin, Berlin
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers
2015
Des/Conexiones, Impakto Gallery, Lima, Peru
Collaborators 4, Room Artspace, London
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and touring, UK
Photo London with Flowers Gallery
Art Cologne with Galerie Conrads
Metamorphosis, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Wish You Were Here? MAC, Birmingham, UK
FOUND, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers
2014
Select Cuts and Alterations, Foley Gallery, New York, USA
Wish You Were Here? The Atkinson, Southport, Merseyside
Morphisisation, APT Gallery, London, (curated by Ben Woodeson)
Soft Target, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Regeneration, Photographers' Gallery Print Sales, London, W1
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World, Yale Center for British Art, USA
Threads (Draadkracht), Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, NL
The Postcard is a Public Work of Art, X Marks the B, London
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers
2013
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium
Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL
Riff/Rift, Baltic39, Newcastle
Beyond surface and material: The meeting point between photography and textiles, Rugby Museum and Gallery, curated by Marlene Little (Birmingham City University)
Spring Photography Selection, Flowers East, London
Postcard Narratives, Room Gallery, London curated by Jeremy Cooper
Armory Show with Yossi Milo
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ramakers
2012
Small is Beautiful XXX, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
Now and Then II, Harris Lindsay, London (curated by Adrian Dannatt)
Uncertain States 2012, London
Nadelwerke, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
Now The Dream Is Over, Blyth Gallery, London
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam with Flowers Gallery and The Photographers' Gallery
John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, Contemporary Art Gallery of The National Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania
Momentarily Absurd, High House Gallery, Clanfield, Oxford
Artists' Postcards - The Jeremy Cooper Collection, Spike Island, Bristol
Lot's Wife, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
CQ Mutiny Gallery 2012 Smile Harder or Die Trying, Galerie Ramakers, The Hague, Netherlands (curated by Joncquil)
Portraits Group Show, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA
East Wing X, The Courtauld Institute, London
The New Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print, Photo50, London Art Fair (curated by Sue Steward)
2011
Christmas Show, Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Hidden In Plain Sight, Galerie8, London
Paris Photo with Flowers East, Paris
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project, Collette, Paris
Photography as Object, Sumarria Lunn, London
Exam, Transition Gallery, London (curated by Edd Pearman)
Print Sales at the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, The
Photographers' Gallery at Ambika P3, London
2010
Marmite Prize for Painting, Central Gallery, Tameside, Lanchester Gallery Projects and The Nunnery, London (cat.)
ArtSway Open 10, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (Shortlisted for prize)
Uncertain States 2010, East Gallery, London (cat.)
Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Constructed Image in New British Photography, Magenta 'Flash Forward Festival', Toronto
Double Trouble, Blyth Gallery, London (curated by Mindy Lee)
Salon Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts (selected by Peter Bonnell, Kate MacGarry and Richard Birkett) (cat.)
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, Jerwood Space, London and touring (cat.)
Keep Me Posted, Posted, London (curated by Julia Royse)
In Miss Rowe's Footsteps, Eagle Gallery, London
The London Original Print Fair with Eagle Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Works on Paper, Campden Gallery, Glos, (cat.)
Sarcophagus of the Kingdom, I-MYU Projects, London
2009
Flowers Autumn Selection, Flowers East, London
The Russell Herron Collection: "This Was Now", Sartorial Contemporary Art, London (curated by Harry Pye)
Modern British Art and the Environment, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Art Meets Fashion, Nurjungkunst, Zollgewolbe der Praterinsel, Munich (cat.)
2008
Salon 08, VINEspace, London
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, and touring
Space Now!, Space Gallery, London (curated by Caroline Douglas)
Book Things and Word Works, Eagle Gallery, London
2007
ArtSway Open 07, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (Shortlisted for prize)
Allegory, Winston Wachter, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London, and touring nationwide (cat.)
Art and Psyche: The Freudian Legacy, CDS Gallery, New York
Salon 07, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London (permanent collection)
Seen from the Wings of a Butterfly, Kunsthallen Br, Viborg, Denmark
Mapping, Bury Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Lancashire
Flora, The Eagle Gallery, London
2006
On the Fractured Stage of the Book, ICA in conjunction with Eagle Gallery
The Furniture Shop, Pavia, Italy (curated by William West and Elisa del Prete) (cat.)
2005
An Open Book, Orleans House, London
Metamorphosis, thecentralhouse, London
On Paper, Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London
New Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Migrations, The Eagle Gallery, London
2004
Rosetta Live, Riverside Studios, London
Ocean Flowers: Impressions From Nature In The Victorian Era, Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA
2003
Artist Books, Prints and Multiples Exhibition, The Eagle Gallery, London
collections
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, NL
Art In Embassies, USA
British Land, London, UK
Caldic Collection, NL
Hyman Collection, UK
John Jones, London
Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, NL
Museum Voorlinden, NL
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
Pier 24, San Francisco, USA
Collection R. Patt, Brussels
The Arts Club, Dover Street, London, UK
The Ivy, London, UK
The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Yale Center For British Art, USA
projects
2017
Selector for Portrait Salon Prize
2013
Artwork commission for The New Statesman centenary issue
2011
'The World in London' Portrait Commission, The Photographers' Gallery, London
'Dazed and Confused Cover Art Project', 20th anniversary issue, October 2011
2008
Speaker 'The Liquid Page' Symposium, Tate Britain
awards
2010
Matt Roberts Art Prize, winner