Jordache Gage, born 1989, Brisbane, Queensland. Lives and works in Brisbane, Queensland. 

Working at the intersection of memory, trauma, and history, Gage’s work interrogates the inherited systems of power that dictate what is taught, remembered, and validated within cultural and academic institutions. Gage’s practice confronts the erasures and distortions that occur when stories of domestic violence and systemic oppression are filtered—or silenced—amplifying frameworks of colonialism, art history and academic gatekeeping. 

Domestic violence is not only a personal trauma but a structural one—mirrored in the systems that erase and silence women, First Nations peoples, and other marginalised voices. Gage’s work traces the echoes between violence in the home and violence in the archive—both built on secrecy, control, and the power to decide whose stories are preserved, and whose are forgotten.

Typically through installation, painting, sculptures and public art projects, Gage revisits the idea of provenance—typically a sterile trail of ownership in art history—as a contested terrain. Whose histories are preserved, and whose are erased? Whose pain is aestheticised, and whose is pathologised? Brazen layers of synthetic polymer, contemporary tools and fragmented narratives evoke the silence imposed by academic institutions that continue to prioritise Eurocentric and patriarchal values. These choices are deliberate; they echo the fractured identities of those who live between recognition and dismissal. 

At the foundation of Gage’s practice is an ongoing inquiry into the concept of home—not merely as a physical place, but as a culturally and spiritually grounded sense of belonging. Drawing on Māori and Aboriginal epistemologies, Gage explores reconnection with whenua and whenua wairua—the land and its spiritual dimension—as a form of cultural and personal restoration. Through acts of making, Gage engages with the intergenerational impacts of colonisation, positioning home not as something to be found externally, but as an embodied presence reawakened through creative practice.