Artists

Josephine Cachemaille

Biography works Exhibitions

She's a Force

3/12/2019 to 26/01/2020

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 capacity to act. Cachemaille often tasks her installations and artworks with specific functions or roles.

My Relics Not My Relics

6/03/2018 to 18/03/2018

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.

Feel Up

11/10/2016 to 23/10/2016

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.

Same as it ever was

23/02/2016 to 13/03/2016

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.

Active Agents / Passive Matter

28/10/2014 to 9/11/2014

Active Agents / Passive Matter finds artist Josephine Cachemaille revisiting her ongoing speculative efforts to examine her capacity as an animist. While taking the position of the “curious skeptic,” Cachemaille suspends disbelief and tries to imagine how animism can influence her work, as she seeks to animate materials and objects with a sense of presence.

Give me the light

29/10/2013 to 10/11/2013

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.

I Can Change

7/02/2012 to 19/02/2012

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. .

New Work

22/06/2010 to 4/07/2010

Josephine Cachemaille’s exhibition of new work looks critically at positive psychology and the impact that “fraudulent maxims” have on current thinking and culture.