William Cobbing’s artworks encompass a diverse range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, installation and performance; he also employs video and performance to create scenarios in which people are depicted immured in surrounding architecture, or buried under layers of earth.
William Cobbing (born 1974, London) studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (1997) and De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2000); awarded PhD Fine Art by Practice at Middlesex University (2010). Cobbing also undertook a residency at Turquoise Mountain in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was awarded the Helen Chadwick Fellowship at Ruskin School and British School at Rome, resulting in the Gradiva Project at Freud Museum and Camden Arts Centre. William Cobbing has exhibited nationally and internationally, including most recently at the British Ceramic Biennale, 2023.
