Sadhbha Cockburn is an emerging artist and writer, living and working upon Gadigal country. She holds a BFA (Painting), an MFA (Drawing), and has a background in medicine. A recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Scholarship, she is currently completing a PhD in Visual Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Interested in affective poetics, Cockburn aims to foreground material and spatial listening in her research - letting the materiality of objects, and the stories they hold, guide her practice. She is currently fascinated by homonyms, spatial prepositions and making thread from her own hair.

Cockburn has participated in multiple group shows and prizes including recent exhibitions at Schmick Contemporary, DRAW Space, aMBUSH gallery and airSPACE projects in Sydney. In 2023, she was awarded the Onslow Storrier Residency Prize at La Cité Internationale in Paris and the Foundations Residency Prize in Portland, NSW.