Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

BornNationalityBased In
1990BritishLondon
Biography

Josephine Baker (b. 1990, London, UK) completed her undergraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012, and her postgraduate in 2017 at the Royal Academy Schools, London.  For Josephine, making sculptures is like writing alternative physical stories to those with which we fabricate our world. Industrially-processed and altered almost beyond recognition, the materials she uses are reconfigured and reimagined, in a challenge to the capitalist trajectories that have produced them. In reclaiming the depiction of landscape and natural phenomena from its cooption into imperialist narratives, different realities are allowed to take shape. ...

Selected Artworks
Mountain SecurityTM
Josephine Baker
Mountain SecurityTM, 2021
Excavator White Cliffs
Josephine Baker
Excavator White Cliffs, 2021
367 x 131 x 74cm
Every tree hides a forest (1)
Josephine Baker
Every tree hides a forest (1), 2021
122 x 45.5 x 10.5cm
Every tree hides a forest (2)
Josephine Baker
Every tree hides a forest (2), 2021
104.5 x 38 x 7.5cm
Every tree hides a forest (3)
Josephine Baker
Every tree hides a forest (3), 2021
52 x 59.5 x 7cm
Morasses (large)
Morasses (small)
Sawfish
Josephine Baker
Sawfish, 2021
68.5 x 38 x 4cm
Mountain SecurityTM: bulkheads exterior
Josephine Baker
Mountain SecurityTM: bulkheads exterior, 2021
13 x 24.5 x 13.5cm ⌀16.5cm
Awards
The Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon RA2017
The Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Hon RA2017
The Ivor Rey Travel Prize2016
The Ivor Rey Travel Prize2016
Biennals
Drawing biennial2021
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