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Exhibition Detail Julie Cockburn 'The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart' Curated by: Matt Roberts Matt Roberts Arts Unit 1 25 Vyner Street London E2 9DG United Kingdom May 6th, 2011 - May 28th, 2011 Opening: May 5th, 2011 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
	Julie Cockburn, The Adulterer, 2011, Mixed Media, 60 x 50.5cm © Courtesy of the artist

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Julie Cockburn’s mixed media works transform idealised models of their time, carefully obliterating them with collaged or stitched bindings. As if highlighting something invisible in the original text, Cockburn reveals a drama of the everyman through a manipulation of found photographic and painted portraits.

The works are meticulous, carefully sourced and appropriated. Playing with contrasts between mass-produced and hand crafted, perfection and deformity, Cockburn’s pieces project a macabre quiet, fragile, fragmented and very human.

Julie was exhibited as part of the Salon Art Prize 2010 and selected from a shortlist of 65 artists for the Selectors’ prize supported by John Jones.