JULIA HOLDERNESS

Julia Holderness (b.1980 Aotearoa, New Zealand) is an award winning multi-media artist who lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Holderness’ practice often involves collaboration, working alongside both historic and current artists in international and local exhibitions. The artist’s research and deliberation on the role of fiction in both the collection and interpretation of material histories offers a critique of traditionally held divides between art historical scholarship and artistic fabrication. Holderness traces alternative histories of modernism in Aotearoa New Zealand; her installations combine mixed media fabrications including textiles, ceramics, photographic prints, collage and sound.

In 2024-2025 Holderness was included in the exhibition Modern Women: Flight of Time at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Curated by Julia Waite this landmark exhibition highlighted the leading role women artists have played in shaping the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2023 Holderness took part in the exhibition Living Room, an exhibition with Objectspace Ōtautahi at the Sir Miles Warren Gallery exploring how we design and adorn domestic spaces as an act of self-expression. She has exhibited several projects for her PHD exhibition including Schemes for Vibrant Living at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, The Studio, at Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2021), Florence & Florence: Other Textile Histories at Ilam Campus Gallery (2018) and Gallery 91 for SCAPE Public Art (2017). Holderness recently won the ZONTA Womens Art Award 2025.

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JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

Josephine Cachemaille (b. 1971 Aotearoa, New Zealand) is an award-winning installation artist who makes paintings, objects and assemblages. She approaches art-making as a place to engage with non-human things as ‘bodies with needs, desires and agency’. Cachemaille is interested in the liveliness of materials and their capacity to operate as collaborators in processes of self-reflection and discovery. She describes her installations as ‘psychological landscapes’ with which to think through difficult and tender themes that are often both autobiographical and universal.

In 2023 Cachemaille was selected for the Joya: AiR: international residency in Spain, a multi-disciplinary residency for artists and writers. Cachemaille is the winner of the National Contemporary Art Awards Merit Prize (2016), the Wallace Art Award Jury Prize, and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Merit Prize for 3D (2018) and 2D works (2017). Cachemaille has presented multiple solo and public exhibitions nationally and internationally including Everybody Sound system, Group Show, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Pōneke Wellington (2022); Back to the Garden, The Service Depot, Threads Textiles Festival, Pōneke Wellington (2022); This Way That Way solo presentation at the Dowse Art Museum, Pōneke Wellington (2021) and Back to Life - a presentation at Te Ramaroa Festival, Whakatū Nelson (2021). She is currently working on a large retrospective exhibition which will launch at the Dowse Art Museum Pōneke Wellington in 2027. She lives in Nelson Whakatu with her husband, music journalist Grant Smithies.

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