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Josephine Wood is a London-based artist working primarily in painting. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Turps Gallery, Cross Lane Projects, Vitrine Gallery, Kingsgate Gallery, and Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art, and The Royal Academy of Art, Ghent. She has participated in numerous curated group shows alongside artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, and Valie Export, and has presented solo exhibitions in London. She was awarded the Gottlieb Foundation Grant in 2024.

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Statement

The themes in my figurative paintings are based around the body and the domestic/home environment. A recurring idea in my work is to transform the mundane into something monumental. Interactions between the feminine body and its environment are heightened to the point of absurdity, sometimes comical, and sometimes horrifyingly so. My figures are fragmented and disjointed; severed limbs merge with household objects such as tables and lamps. The boundaries between subject and object are disrupted, and the body and interiors almost collapse into one another, both materially and conceptually.

 

In this playful reimagining of domestic scenarios, the interiors function not only as physical spaces but also as psychological and social constructs. My working-class background informs this work; the paintings draw on lived experiences of deprivation and adversity. Personal and collective memories are repeatedly reworked, resurfacing in altered forms across, and beneath the surface.

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