Most of Cachemaille’s making processes cultivate receptivity to states of wonder and (re)enchantment. The attachments and enduring affectionate relationships I form with materials and final works, which often evoke bodies or entities in narrative tableau, make me feel connected to the world in ways that foster meaning, care and ethical concern for our futures. I am interested in personal transformation and how embodied and festive modalities of creating might allow us to push against the despair and cynicism of our political climate, and imagine alternatives to the consensus reality of capitalist societal structures.

Josephine Cachemaille is an installation artist who makes objects and assemblages. She has a deeply anthropomorphic methodology, approaching materials as sensuous bodies with agency, often thinking of them as collaborators, as a family. In this sense, she is exploring the potential of art-making as magical, as a kind of relational ontology, where dominant ways of knowing the world are challenged.
Josephine has won significant art awards and had multiple solo and public exhibitions nationally and internationally. Josephine has a post graduate diploma in Fine Art and a Psychology degree. She lives in Whakatū with writer and music journalist Grant Smithies.