Sculptor in wood, and draughtsman, born in Suffolk. He studied for a short time at Great Yarmouth College of Art, at Coventry College of Art and then the Royal College of Art. His sculptures are beautifully constructed and take several forms: some have head themes, as in the Arts Council’s Head Case IV, of 1978; the chair was another theme. Among Cobb’s showings was the 8th Paris Biennale, of 1973; the 1977 Silver Jubilee Exhibition in Battersea Park; in 1979–80 in Wood at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park; and he participated in the Welsh Sculpture Trust’s 1983 Margam exhibition Sculpture in a Country Park. Cobb won the Walter Neurath Award for Sculpture in 1971 and the Sainsbury Award in 1974. In 1980–1 he was the resident fellow-in-sculpture at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and in 1985–8 held a Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture at Norwich School of Art.