Abby Cocovini

Making Like The Starlings On Wandsworth Bridge

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Oil
Paper
54 x 58 cm

“Making Like The Starlings On Wandsworth Bridge is part of a wider project I’m currently working on, exploring how my childhood might have looked if I’d shared the streets of South London with a brother, and not been an only child. A lot of my childhood was spent playing outside, wandering the streets alone or with friends or my parents, or being at home on my own. The paintings aren’t set in any specific decade but it’s obvious it’s not contemporary. Sometimes I revisit the sites to take photos to help me compose the paintings in the studio, sometimes (especially for interior set-ups) I dig deep into my memory instead. There are elements of magical realism present in some of the paintings.”