Sadhbha Cockburn
PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design
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Sadhbha Cockburn is a former medical student, graduate of the National Art School (BFA Painting and MFA Drawing) and current PhD candidate at ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Art and Design. Working across making and writing, her practice examines embodied responses to place. Her current research considers how loss functions as a wound, opening an aperture through which to examine body-place relations and affect as a language of grief and repair.
- Research area
- Research outputs
Reparative sculpture and mourning studies
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023 Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
- 2023 ‘The Turning’, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney
- 2023 ‘Materiality’ – Drawspace, Newtown, Sydney
- 2023 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize – MAGM, Manly
- 2023 Motel Art Fair, South East Centre for Contemporary Art, Bermagui
- 2022 ‘anterograde//retrograde’ – airSPACE projects, Marrickville
- 2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize – MAGM, Manly
- 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
- 2022 ‘Residue’ - aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo
- 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize – MAGM, Manly
- 2021 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award Exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
- 2021 ‘Organic’ – Scratch Art Space, Marrickville
- 2021 ‘Margaret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition, 2021’ – Rayner Hoff Project Space, NAS
- 2020 Traces IV, Belconnen Art Centre, Canberra
- 2019 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award Exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
- 2019 Stolen property, NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
- 2017 Traces II, Belconnen Art Centre, Canberra
Awards, Grants and Residencies
- 2024 Visual Arts Residency, The Foundations, Portland, NSW
- 2023 The Onslow Storrier Residency Prize at La Cité Internationale des Arts à Paris
- 2023 Visual Arts Residency Shark Island, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
- 2023 Award for Academic Excellence in the Masters of Fine Art, National Art School
- 2022 Finalist in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize, MAGM, Manly
- 2022 Finalist in the Matisse Eloquence Prize, Culture Plus-AGNSW collaboration
- 2022 East Sydney Doctors Scholarship, National Art School, Sydney
- 2021 Highly commended in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize, MAGM, Manly
- 2021 Finalist in the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
- 2021 Margaret Olley Drawing Week Internship, National Art School
- 2020 Brandon Trakman Scholarship for Art History, National Art School, Sydney
- 2019 Finalist in the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney