JOSEPHINE BAKER

 

Josephine Baker (b. 1990, London, UK) is an artist based in London, and works through sculpture, installation, drawing, and poetry. Using readily-available building and landscaping materials, she composes physical metaphors for how the natural earth is represented in a capitalocentric world. Baker completed her undergraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012, and her postgraduate in 2017 from the Royal Academy Schools, London. She was a 12-month resident award holder at British School at Rome 2017–18 (Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture), and was shortlisted for the 2019 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. Recent exhibitions include: Outfallers, Nir Altman, Munich 2022;Wallwerk, Nir Altman, Munich 2021; The Land Lies, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2020 (solo); well, well, well…, Sundy, London, 2020; Wreck or Ruin, V.O Curations, London, 2020; Islands, Kupfer, London, 2019 (solo); Correction, Tintype, London, 2019 (solo); Sheltering Sky, GAO gallery, London, 2019.

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Website: www.josephinebaker.info

Outfallers
Nir Altman, Munich
14th January – 5 March 2022

Josephine Baker, Versunkene Landschaft (Sunken Landscape) #2, 2022, cable, cable ties, Concrete, concrete rubble, coral fragments, Dover chalk, epoxy resin, fossil, fishes (Knight Alta, Eocene rock), paint, pine, plaster, plywood, rubber, security, light, steel ducting, steel reinforcement bars, tube clips, 203 x 191.5 x 25 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Outfaller #1, 2021, asphalt roofing felt, cable ties, cardboard, cork, hedge shears, MDF, nails, paint, pine dowelling, rubber, 92.5 x 27.5 x 7.5 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Versunkene Landschaft (Sunken Landscape) #2, 2022, cable, cable ties, Concrete, concrete rubble, coral fragments, Dover chalk, epoxy resin, fossil, fishes (Knight Alta, Eocene rock), paint, pine, plaster, plywood, rubber, security, light, steel ducting, steel reinforcement bars, tube clips, 203 x 191.5 x 25 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Outfaller #2, 2021, artificial grass, cliff sand (Jurassic Coast), glass, hedge, shears, plywood, plaster, silicone, varnish, wire and fixings, 101 x 71 x 9 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Contiguous zones #2, 2021, charcoal, colour pencil, graphite, pencil, wax crayon; on paper, 56 x 38 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Contiguous zones #3, 2021, chalk, charcoal, colour pencil, graphite, oil stick, pencil on paper; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Josephine Baker, Contiguous zones #8, 2021, chalk, charcoal, colour pencil, graphite, oil stick, pencil on paper; Courtesy of the artist and Nir Altman, Munich

Wallwerk
Nir Altman, Munich
26th February – 17th April, 2021

Crossing (1) 2021, anticlimb spikes, brass bars, caulk, charcoal, cotton wool, Dover chalk, glass, grout, paints, pigments, pine, plaster, plywood, roofing felt, screws, silicone, tiles, wood piping brackets, 120 x 174 x 42.9 cm

Crossing (2) 2021, aluminium tubing and roofing sections, anticlimb spikes, black sand, chalk, charcoal, Dover chalk, clay, filler, MDF, mortar, nails, glass, paints, pigments, pine, plaster, plywood, screws, steel threading and nuts, terracotta tiles, 112.1 x 169.9 x 33 cm

Photos courtesy the artist and Nir Altman Gallery

Islands
Kupfer Project Space, London
22nd September – 14th October, 2019

Island (1) 2019, Anticlimb spikes, mortar, pigments, plywood, pine, preformed pond, spray paint, steel tubing, tiles, dimensions variable

Island (2) 2019, Anticlimb spikes, cement, mortar, pigments, plywood, pine, preformed pond, tiles, dimensions variable

Island (3) 2019, Artificial grass, anticlimb spikes, cement, mortar, netting, pigments, plywood, pine, preformed pond, spraypaint, steel tubing, tiles, dimensions variable

Sheltering Sky
With Kira Freije and Tom Worsfold
GAO Gallery, London
12th January – 9th Feb 2019

Installation views with Kira Freije and Tom Worsfold

Landslide, 2019, Artificial grass, chalk, charcoal, MDF, mortar, paint, pine, plywood, terracotta tiles, 234 x 244 x 30 cm