Art Craft
#embroidery #found photographs #vintage
Found Vintage Photographs are Reinterpreted with Colorful Overlays by Julie Cockburn
“The Ecologist” (2019), hand embroidery and inkjet on found photograph. All images © Julie Cockburn, courtesy of Flowers Gallery
Working with vintage photographs, artist Julie Cockburn (previously) re-energizes images that have been lost to time with colorful overlays. Cockburn adds tightly stitched orbs, swirling marbled enamel, and architectural structures as overlays to black-and-white or softly toned studio portraits, candid snaps, and landscape photos.
The London-based artist’s current solo exhibition, ‘Telling It Slant’, is on view through November 2, 2019 at Flowers Gallery‘s Kingsland Road location. Cockburn’s show title alludes to an Emily Dickinson poem called Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. In a statement, the gallery describes the artist’s work as “excavat[ing] authentic stories by circuitous means… Cockburn embarks on a visual journey to delicately reveal narrative histories and layered meanings in lost and discarded images. Cockburn partially obscures the images in a process she describes as ‘paradoxically unmasking’ their intrinsic truths.”
See more of the artist’s work on Instagram, and place an order for Cockburn’s first monograph, Stickybeak, published by Chose Commune.
“Moonscape” (2019), hand embroidery on found photograph
“Qualm” (2019), hand embroidery and inkjet on found photograph
“Plumage 1” (2019), hand embroidery on found postcard
“Blue Face Man” (2019), enamel on found photograph
L: “Armour” 2019, hand embroidery and ink on found photograph / R: “The Welder” (2019), hand embroidery on found photograph
“Feed the Birds Man” (2019), C type print of found photograph and glass beads
“Will O The Wisp” (2019), hand embroidery on found photograph
#embroidery #found photographs #vintage
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