Thomas Cobbett

Cobbett is an interdisciplinary concept artist, with a focus on exploring facets of identity through performance and sculpture. Drawing on their own Queer experience to reflect on the “othered body”; Cobbett’s work hinges on a destabilisation of the normative, with a strong belief that anything supposed as natural is propped on a colonial system of white patriarchy. Exploiting the tactile properties of soft sculpture to engage an audience in reflection, their work will often allow physical encounters to establish dialogue where traditional language may fail. Using denim as gendered material, Cobbett explores the liminality of the attic in this project, as a space of potential, inverting the supposed natural interior/exterior dynamic. This pandemic has exposed the imbalances of our political and social ‘normality’. What if we embrace the unstable in search for a potential new?

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