Josephine Cachemaille (b. 1971 Aotearoa, 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’.
Cachemaille is interested in the liveliness of materials and their capacity to operate as collaborators in processes of self-reflection and discovery. She describes her installations as psychological landscapes with which to think through difficult and tender themes that are often both autobiographical and universal.
In recent exhibitions This Way, That Way at The Dowse Art Museum (2021), She’s a Force at Sanderson (2020) and Be Soft, Be Strong at Sanderson (2022), the artist focused on exploring scenarios in the gallery space that focused on a positive future for her daughter Rosa.
In 2023 Cachemaille was selected for the Joya: AiR: international residency in Spain, a multi-disciplinary residency for artists and writers. Cachemaille is the winner of the National Contemporary Art Awards Merit Prize (2016), the Wallace Art Award Jury Prize, and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Merit Prize for 3D (2018) and 2D works (2017).
Cachemaille has presented multiple solo and public exhibitions nationally and internationally including Everybody Sound system, Group Show, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Pōneke Wellington (2022); Back to the Garden, The Service Depot, Threads Textiles Festival, Pōneke Wellington (2022); This Way That Way solo presentation at the Dowse Art Museum, Pōneke Wellington (2021) and Back to Life - a presentation at Te Ramaroa Festival, Whakatū Nelson (2021). She lives in Nelson Whakatu with her husband, music journalist Grant Smithies.
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