Cobi Cockburn

(Photo from Bullseye Gallery)
Picked up edition 69 of Craft Arts International, one of my favorite magazines and a terrific survey tool if you’re into glass, and Cobi Cockburn is all over it.

I met Cobi at a Bullseye class last summer; she was Kirstie Rea’s teaching assistant for “What do we make of glass?” I added a little coda to my blogpost about that class saying how much I liked her work.

A day or so after that class Cobi took two of the top prizes (non-functional glass and most popular) at Emerge 2006, Bullseye’s competition for new glass artists. I discovered she’d already won the prestigious Australian Ranamok prize for contemporary glass in 2006, and was a finalist in 2005.

Nice. Now she’s got a 6-page article in Craft Arts (page 69), along with a blurb about Ranamok 2006 on page 108. I do believe the lady is going places.

BTW, this is a marvelous issue of Craft Arts if you’re into glass, quilts or ceramics. Really lovely articles with nice production values. Highly recommend picking up a copy…

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