Annabelle Cock

Annabelle Cock (1972) has a studio in Ghent. She creates refined collages, drawings, and spatial installations. “Creating without creating or doing without doing, this is the fundamental principle of my work. Colors and shapes are considered and explored until an ‘inevitable’ result emerges. My way of working is very playful. Just like a child who draws very spontaneously, I try to pursue as little as possible or attach value to the outcome. From a fascination with a color or a pattern, I start, as I call it, ‘intuitively cutting or drawing,’ and let a work grow. Without thinking too much about it. I only have colored paper, markers, scissors, and glue to begin with. I rarely make a preliminary study and often only know afterward what it is about. That discovery is often very surprising. And stopping at just the right moment is an art. The themes are both all-encompassing and universal: fullness and emptiness, fragility, balance, contrasts, movement, light and dark, love… and last but not least: humor.”