Joshua Cocking

Joshua Cocking draws on years spent living in remote Indigenous communities in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia to create realist works anchored in the landscape. The ambiguously placed objects juxtapose natural and artificial materials, capturing the cross-cultural tensions involved in the experience of contemporary outback Australia.

“The principal motivation behind my work and practice is to explore notions of disconnection and isolation in the landscape while simultaneously discussing what constitutes a sense place and home.” 

Originally from Melbourne, Western Australian artist Joshua Cocking has won multiple prize awards including the The Paddington Art Prize, The Lester Prize for Portraiture, The Cossack Art Prize, The West Kimberley Art Prize, the Shinju Matsuri Art Prize , The Hedland Art Prize, The Lethbridge Art Prize and the Midwest Art Prize. He has also held residencies at the Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle and Cossack, Western Australia.