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1981

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Talking About My Childhood: Tacky, Jonathan P. Cockburn Jan 1981

Talking About My Childhood: Tacky, Jonathan P. Cockburn

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The work by Jon Cockburn exhibited in the Wynne Competition at the AGNSW (1981-82) was entitled Talking About my Childhood: Tacky, and this relief sculpture explores the fragmentation of self that accompanies shifting meanings of place. The work takes its title from an instance in 1981 when Joan Brassil, Judith Blackall and Jon Cockburn went to the Australia Hotel, at the Rocks, for a few beers after completing respective projects in their shared studio space (Cumberland Street). Jon Cockburn got talking about his childhood in Papua New Guinea and Joan said: “Jon you have got to be where your soul …