Josephine Baker
(born 1990, London) works through sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking and poetry. Using readily-available and standardised materials, Baker composes physical metaphors for how the natural earth is represented in an anthropocentric world. From shelters to barricades, objects of ceremony to objects of domestic use, the makeshift structures she builds create habitats of precarity and separation, that sometimes also appear to strive to offer protection from both natural and man-made disaster. Inside these landscapes, fantastical or elemental forms are brought into direct conversation with architectural functionality and diagrammatic pragmatism, as if conflicting worldviews were being asked to understand their differences.Baker completed her postgraduate at the Royal Academy Schools in 2017. Since then she has been living and working in Rome, undertaking the year-long Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome.
Night music
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm
Hunting the hunted
chalk, charcoal, pencil and photocopy collage on paper
80 x 60 cm
Chances
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm
Mediterranean landscape
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm
Songs for earthquakes
chalk and charcoal on paper
70 x 90 cm
Blame game
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
70 x 100 cm
Last breath
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
70 x 100 cm
In unison
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
90 x 70 cm
Peaceful negotiations
chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper
70 x 100 cm