Julie cockburn

With exceptional handcrafted embroidery and an occasional mind-bending kaleidoscopic twist, the British artist’s work enthrals the viewer’s perceptions.

These are my digital experiments inspired by Julie Cockburn. All of the photographs I used are not my own, I found them on Google. For the first image I opened it up onto Photoshop. I then picked a shape which in my case was a square which I rotated to look like a diamond. I used a geometric shape as it is a lot easier to piece together. After choosing my shape I drew the shape onto my image ensuring that it wasn't too big. After this I went to my layers pallet, ensuring that my background…

The idea of an “emerging talent” is an enticing but nebulous concept. Who are these talents? How are they discovered? How do they emerge? By following the arc of two very different artists, some general principles become clear.

Today I was working on a colour scheme for a beautiful house that a new client bought. I started with collecting images for a mood boar...

Glass beads and nylon thread on found postcard 14 x 10 cm 5 1/2 x 4 in

UK-based Julie Cockburn talks to us about her process of embroidering geometric patterns into salvaged photographs.

Noemie Goudal, Les Amants (Promenade) (2009) Colour photograph, 168

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Julie Cockburn

London-based artist Julie Cockburn transforms vintage photographs by embroidering across their surfaces, adding bright pops of thread to portraits that are either black and white or have faded over time. Using found images from eBay and flea markets, Cockburn obscures the faces of strangers, layering the portraits with multi-colored dots, geometric patterns, or ovals in varying gradients. Cockburn will exhibit work with The Photographers’ Gallery at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD…

Artist Julie Cockburn’s embroidered photos

I came across Julie Cockburn’s kirigami work in an issue of The British Journal of Photography. I think her and other collage artists are doing some interesting stuff. Her work makes me think…

Julie Cockburn (@juliecockburnartist) • Instagram photos and videos

This is my first experiment that I made using Adobe Photoshop. These are the instructions that I followed: Open up your chosen image in Photoshop Create a new layer: Layer - New Choose the selection tool in the tool box and make a circle shape TIP: Hold down alt and shift when making the shape to ensure a perfectly proportioned circle drawn from the middle Fill the circle selection with colour of your choice using the paint bucket Set the Layer Blending mode to 'multiply': find this in the…

julie cockburn

Julie Cockburn, The Ecologist, 2019. Hand embroidery and inkjet on found photograph. © Julie Cockburn, courtesy of Flowers Gallery.

Crystal 3, 2010, collaged digital photograph, Julie Cockburn

In the internet age we live in, images are disembodied and expandable—bundles of pixels relentlessly streaming across the screens of our smartphones a

Julie Cockburn takes studio portraits from the past, obliterates the faces with embroidery – and injects them with new life. Sean O’Hagan meets her