Josephine Cachemaille

Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition New Psychic Life by Josephine Cachemaille. A tenderly rendered facial fragment. An intensely arched body. One pointed foot protruding from geometric tubing. A single brushstroke tracing a sinuous knot down an expanse of black calico. In New Psychic Life Josephine Cachemaille draws together...

Cachemaille’s installations are driven by her desire to work through questions and scenarios from her life, often central to her family dynamics. In recent exhibitions This Way, That Way at The Dowse Art Museum 2021, and She’s a Force at Sanderson in 2020, the artist focused on exploring a scenario...

Josephine Cachemaille (b. 1971, New Zealand) is an award-winning installation artist who makes paintings, objects and assemblages. She approaches art-making as a place to engage with non-human things as bodies with needs, desires and agency. She describes objects, materials and media as “collaborators” who know things, contribute and have the...

Josephine Cachemaille latest body of work illustrates the artist’s grapple with a collection of concerns about ownership, our psychological histories and experiences, and the capacity of the materials and objects involved in art-making processes to share authorship of the artistic output. My Relics Not My Relics, signals Cachemaille’s conflicted confessional...

Josephine Cachemaille’s exhibition FEEL UP! urges us to join her in an optimistic, animist fantasy where we become more connected, positive beings, traversing modern boundaries between persons and things. The gallery installation appears to be the site of a kind of 'encounter group' therapy session with costumes and comical prop-like...

Josephine Cachemaille’s installation of assemblages and collages evokes a primitive setting within which contemporary concerns play out. Prop-like cloth wall hangings suggest landscape: mountains, a sun, a cave or portal; a disc of blue velvet on the gallery floor, a pool. Occupying the landscape are entities: lean assemblages of studio...

New works include large-scale paintings of iron pyrite, rendered in glowing, light-responsive metallic paints that create illusionistic, three-dimensional effects against dark, matte backdrops. The perceived spiritual significance of the mineral, colloquially referred to as “fool’s gold,” is Cachemaille’s case study for the way we imbue inanimate objects with power and...

In her darkly funny installations Josephine Cachemaille combines the earthy aesthetics of 1970s home craft projects with the earnest, aspirational language of the self-help industry. She takes a skeptical position, poking fun at the growing phenomenon in the West of pop psychology and positive thinking, the irrational idea that material...

Josephine Cachemaille uses ruminations on insecurity, anxiety and personal psychology to describe collective shared conditions and experiences. I Can Change demonstrates Cachemaille’s diverse practice; whether through figurative painting or three-dimensional work, she remains interested in the tensions between the personal and the universal, the individual and the collective. Cachemaille’s amulets...

Josephine Cachemaille’s exhibition of new work is the result of research into positive psychology focusing particularly on “law of attraction” theories such as Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. According to such theories, human thought alone can influence the physical world of existence and merely thinking positive thoughts can produce positive outcomes....