Caitlin Devoy
“Devoy's work is full of startling contradictions. Both viscerally unnerving and oddly seductive. Pornographic and neutered. Excoriating and tender. Hilariously, decadently camp, but with a deadly serious intent. They are utterly fresh yet somehow ancient, like a pair of nipple tassels fluttering in a primaeval breeze.”
Hera Lindsay Bird
Born 1976, lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington
Caitlin Devoy’s work is simultaneously seductive and unnerving, sensual and neutered, excoriating and tender. Devoy’s practice embraces the transgressive power of the comedic as both honey and sting, revealing the power relations encoded in representations of the body. The sculptures subvert everyday objects whose specific functions and tactile associations are familiar to the viewer. Her material choices underscore the humour, imbuing the objects with bodily characteristics and undermining binary representations of masculinity and femininity.
“Mounds shiver. Nipples pop. Slime bubbles. Devoy’s works are indecently alive. They lie trembling on the brink of apprehension, inviting the viewer into a slow and intimate dance, teasing and eluding, in erotic pastiche and soft pink seriousness. Deliciously tactile, it’s impossible not to want to reach out and touch. To flick. To stroke. To blow. To slap. The viewer becomes voyeur, subject in a sea of possible nouns.”
Hera Lindsay Bird
Caitlin Devoy & Robbie Handcock
SWITCH
15 April – 8 May 2021
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Plus 1
15 May - 7 Jun 2025Jhana Millers presents Plus 1, a group exhibition where a selection of gallery artists each invite a creative companion to exhibit alongside them.Read more -
Summer Selection – Portraits
29 Jan - 15 Feb 2025Read more -
FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Caitlin Devoy and Hye Rim Lee, The Rose, and her Thorns
16 Mar - 8 Apr 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a new joint exhibition, The Rose, and her Thorns with Caitlin Devoy and Hye Rim Lee.Read more -
Self by Others, Ayesha Green, Elisabeth Pointon, Christopher Ulutupu, Claudia Kogachi, Caitlin Devoy, Robbie Handcock
1 - 18 Dec 2021Group Exhibition, Self by Others. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Caitlin Devoy and Robbie Handcock, SWITCH
15 Apr - 8 May 2021Caitlin Devoy and Robbie Handcock, SWITCH. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Caitlin Devoy, Display
15 - 30 Nov 2019Caitlin Devoy, Display. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more -
Group Exhibition, ONE
15 - 27 Jul 2019Group exhibition, ONE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Crossing Currents: An interview with Caitlin Devoy in Personal Structures
Contemporary Hum, July 6, 2024 -
Caitlin Devoy and Robbie Handcock, Switch: Pisstalks
Hera Lindsay Bird, Exhibition essay, April 15, 2021 -
Mother mother project: Caitlin Devoy
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Jiggly Bits: On the Sculptures of Caitlin Devoy
Francis McWhannell, The Pantograph Punch, November 23, 2019 -
Caitlin Devoy, Display: Show and Feel
Frances McWhannell, Exhibition essay, November 15, 2019
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Caitlin Devoy, BODYOBJECTS
Video Extract July 10, 2024Read more -
Caitlin Devoy, BODYOBJECTS
Video Extract July 10, 2024Read more -
Caitlin Devoy and Robbie Handcock, SWITCH
Exhibition video April 15, 2021Read more -
Caitlin Devoy and Hye Rim Lee, The Rose, and her Thorns
Exhibition video March 24, 2023Read more