The Artist Using Needle and Thread to Transform Found Photos

"When I was young, my grandmother taught me how to embroider," says British artist Julie Cockburn, who has been applying layers of embroidery to found objects and photographs for several years. "As a child I was obsessed with those 1970s Spanish tourist postcards of traditionally dressed Flamenco dancers with physically embroidered skirts and waistcoats. I’m sure they have been an underlying inspiration for the work I make today." Cockburn trained as a sculptor at London's…