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Cobby, H (2018) The rhythm of light: Scottish colourists from the Fleming Collection. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.

Cobby, H (2018) The young Turner: ambitions in architecture and the art of perspective. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ISBN 9781910807286

Avery-Quash, S, Cobby, H, Nichol, J and Kay, F (2022) 'Patience.' In: Avery‐Quash, S and Lepine, A, eds. Fruits of the spirit: art from the heart. The National Gallery, London.

Cobby, H (2020) 'Naum Gabo in Cornwall: an international context.' In: Kalinsky, N, ed. Cornwall as crucible: modernity and internationalism in mid-century Britain. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.

Cobby, H and Swatton, A (2016) 'Images of the camoufleurs: life, love and art in wartime Leamington Spa.' In: Watkins, J, ed. Concealment and deception: the art of the camoufleurs of Leamington Spa 1939-1945. Warwick District Council, Leamington Spa, pp. 57-76. ISBN 9781872940083

Cobby, H and Randle, R (2021) 'A boy in Seville: the representation of Black identities in a 17th-century Spanish painting.' Midlands Art Papers, 4.

Cobby, H (2018) 'The acquisition and display of Rodin’s 'The age of bronze' (c.1877).' Midlands Art Papers, 2.

Cobby, H (2016) 'Peter Randall-Page.' Craft Arts International, 96. pp. 36-39.

Cobby, H (2026) From club collection to civic resource: developing a university–sporting heritage partnership in Bath. In: Sporting Heritage Conference, 19 November 2026, online. (Forthcoming)

Cobby, H (2026) Drawing together: place-based exhibition-making and the public lives of regional collections. In: Regional Collections Histories on Display, 11 September 2026, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

Cobby, H (2026) Collaborative futures: reimagining university collections through partnership and institutional change. In: University Museums: Today, Tomorrow, Together - University Museums Group Conference, 15 June 2026, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

Cobby, H (2025) Turner as teacher: lessons in perspective. In: Turner 250 Conference, 4-5 December 2025, Tate Britain, London, UK.

Cobby, H (2023) The young Turner: ambitions in architecture and the art of perspective. In: J.M.W. Turner: State of the Field Symposium, 22-23 September 2023, Yale Center for British Art [online].

Cobby, H (2022) To have and to hold: portrait miniature jewellery. In: Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar, 25 October 2022, online.

Cobby, H, Dunbar, E and Fuller, A (2026) Drawing Together: the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham [curators]. Touring exhibition, 11 September 2026 - 11 April 2027.

Cobby, H (2022) To Have and to Hold: Portrait Miniature Jewellery [curator]. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK, 27 May to 18 September 2022.

Cobby, H (2020) Changing Shapes: Metamorphosis in Art [curator]. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK, 16 October 2020 - 6 June 2021.

Kalinsky, N and Cobby, H (2020) Cornwall as Crucible: Modernity and Internationalism in Mid-Century Britain [curators]. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK, 19 February - 17 May 2020.

Cobby, H and Kalinsky, N (2018) The Rhythm of Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection [curators]. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK, 16 February - 13 May 2018.

Cobby, H (2018) The Young Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective [curator]. Touring exhibition, 2018-2020.

Cobby, H, Swatton, A and Watkin, J (2016) Concealment and Deception: the Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa 1939-1945 [curators]. Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK, 22 July - 16 October 2016.

Cobby, H (2021) Changing shapes: the art of metamorphosis [blog post]. Art UK.

Cobby, H (2018) Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: British Museum, 26 April – 29 July 2018 [exhibition review]. British Art Journal, 19 (2). pp. 98-99.

Cobby, H (2018) Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings: Tate St Ives, 10 February – 29 April 2018; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 26 May – 16 September 2018; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2 October – 9 December 2018 [exhibition review]. British Art Journal, 19 (2). pp. 95-96.

Cobby, H (2016) The extraordinary life and momentous times of J.M.W. Turner by Franny Moyle [book review]. British Art Journal, 17 (2). p. 82.

Cobby, H (2016) Richard Long: time and space [exhibition review]. Craft Arts International, 96.

Cobby, H (2015) The beauty and cruelty of nature: Peter Randall-Page and Kate MccGwire [exhibition review]. Crafts: The Magazine for Contemporary Craft, 256. pp. 89-90.

Cobby, H (2015) Style and satire: fashion in print 1777–1927 [book review]. Print Quarterly, XXXII (1). p. 58.

Cobby, H (2015) Exploring the hidden world of shoes: Ellen Sampson - Palimpsest: the shoe as record [exhibition review]. Crafts: The Magazine for Contemporary Craft, 252. pp. 60-61.