William Cobbing Archives

William Cobbing #Interview

11 March 2024 • Tabish Khan

William Cobbing takes us into the gloopy, slapstick world of sculpture, clay, video and performance.

INTERVIEWS

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tension Fine Art

6 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent

Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London.

‘After the Performance’ at Tension Fine Art

4 September 2023 • Mark Westall

‘After the Performance’ at Tension Fine Art – It’s tempting to contrast object and performance, but a physical object often… Read More

EARTH EATERS is an alternative name for the condition Geophagia – the practice in humans and animals of eating earth or more specifically the clay and mineral content within it. It is part of a larger eating disorder called Pica – the consumption of non nutritive substances such as clay, starch, ice and chalk. This behaviour is usually found in people that have underlying deficiencies (blood cells, haemoglobin or zinc).

Touching from a Distance

1 April 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent

My heading comes from Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’, and given that the band also recorded ‘Isolation’, they must be the go-to musical precursors of our current ‘social distancing’. What about visual artists?