Biography

“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

Works
  • Caitlin Devoy, Art Waste (floor grouping) 1, 2025
    Art Waste (floor grouping) 1, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Art Waste (floor grouping) 2, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Art Waste (group), 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Art Waste (plaster bin), 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Art Waste (rubber bin), 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Art Waste (volatile materials) 1, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Art Waste (volatile materials) 2, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Burning, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Cast, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Diminuendo, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Double Cream, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, High Hat, open sizzle, 2025
    High Hat, open sizzle, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Hold Your Breath (the ghost chord) 1,, 2025
    Hold Your Breath (the ghost chord) 1,, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Hold Your Breath (the ghost chord) 2, 2025
    Hold Your Breath (the ghost chord) 2, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Hold Your Breath (the ghost chord) 3, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Mic Sinker, 2025
    Mic Sinker, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Sit Down, 2025
    Sit Down, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Snare Lung, 2025
    Snare Lung, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers
    Tip to Tip, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Venom, 2025
    Venom, 2025
  • Caitlin Devoy, Venom (freestanding), 2025
    Venom (freestanding), 2025
  • Jhana Millers Gallery Caitlin Devoy
    Canons DD, 2024
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Nude II (mid-mid) , 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Wall Hung, two-tone (mid-pink), 2021
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Basso Fermata, 2024
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Switch (mid-mid), 2023
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Wall Hung, two-tone (mid-light), 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    D(oric) wall mounted and Lustre (red hot and clear, small), 2023
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Drill, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Lustre (Peachy, medium) and white stand, 2023
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    Nude II (pale), 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Caitlin Devoy
    ON (so very), 2023
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Slow leak, 2023
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Canons, 2024
  • Caitlin Devoy Jhana Millers Gallery
    Portrait of Natalie Ann, 2025
  • Jhana Millers Gallery Caitlin Devoy
    Switch (barbie), 2024
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