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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

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