Josephine Dadson
Josephine Dadson (b. 2002) graduated from the Painting Department of Camberwell College of Arts, London, in 2025, and currently lives and works in the United Kingdom. She is a contemporary artist whose primary medium is painting, and whose practice is a critical analysis of Westernpolitics focusing on its oppressive systems. Within the contexts of gender order, image capitalism, and colonial history, she examines how the body is disciplined, coded, evaluated, and transformed into a form of value capable of circulation. Her visual language appears light, characterized by comic-like narratives and graffiti-style lines, yet it constructs a critical analysis of mechanisms of self-discipline and the production of aesthetic standards. Through the appropriation of historical and popular cultural imagery, she employs familiar visual symbols as points of entry, rendering complex issues approachable. Her use of scale reinforces the corporeal dimension of viewing, creating a direct encounter between viewer and image. Josephine regards artistic practice as a cognitive act: by reorganizing her own position and experience within existing structure, she continually questions the formation and distribution of structural power.

