BIO
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 responds to the intergenerational impacts of colonisation, positioning home not as something to be found externally, but as an embodied presence reawakened through creative practice.
CV
Education
Cert III Electrotechnology Systems Electrician
Advanced Diploma of Visual Communications - Design College Australia
Diploma Audio Engineering - SAE
Public Art Projects
Brisbane Street Art Festival, Artist & Workshop Facilitator - 2018 - 2025
Emerging Arts Development Program, Brisbane Street Art Festival - 2018
Climate Disruption Residency, Public Mural, Patan, Nepal - 2018
Unity Water, Public Art Contractor, Water Tanks - Kallangur, Point Cartwright - 2016-2018
Queensland Rail Positive Partnerships, Rail Industry Worker, Artist Contractor - Manly Station, Logan Station, Airport Line, Fortitude Valley (Switchbox), Northgate (Switchbox), Helensvale, Beenleigh - 2016 - Current
Moreton Bay Regional Council, Caboolture Council Asset - 2020
Yelarbon Silos, ‘When the rain comes’ - 2019/2020
Boulia Sports Complex - 2020
Moura Regional Council - 2020
Museum of Brisbane, BAD, Mayne Line- 2021
LyLyo Brisbane, Ingenous Lab Youth Public Art Program, Finalist Hotel Awards - 2023
Sculptural Commission Blue Mountain Botanical Gardens - 2024-2025
Sculptures
Swell Sculpture Festival - 2024
Blue Mountain Botanical Gardens Contemporary Bonsai (September Install) - 2024-2025
Solo Exhibitions
Jordache Solo Exhibition, Sportmark Gallery - 2022
Cognitive Dissonance, Sensory Exhibition - 2023
Group Exhibitions
Climate Disruption Residency, Micro Galleries, Patan, Nepal - 2018
Within These Walls, Brisbane Street Art Festival - 2019
While You Were Sleeping, Mayne Line AIR - 2020
Nation Street Press Launch, Dust Temple - 2021
Symbiotic, Mayne Line AIR - 2021
Modern Vices, Winner Harker Hine Art Prize - 2021
Anti Division Group Exhibition - 2022
Art Aid, ONE, Sydney - 2022
Guilty Pleasures, Exhibition Restaurant, Brisbane 2022 -Curator
No Order Group Exhibition, In These Streets - 2022
Cognitive Dissonance, Sensory Exhibition - 2023
DeLight Festival Ipswich, Projection - 2025
Curator
Symbiotic, Mayne Line AIR - 2021
Guilty Pleasures, Exhibition Restaurant, Brisbane - 2022
Publications
No Order Magazine: Issue 02 - In These Streets - 2022
Art Edit: 034 Summer Issue - 2022
https://artedit.com.au/gallery-panel-jordache-gage/
Catholic School Education System - Creative Inquiry: Visual Art for Queensland Senior Secondary Students, Case Study - 2025-2030
Artist Residency
Queensland Art Showcase Program
Micro Galleries Climate Disruption, Patan, Nepal - 2018
Podcasts
Street Art Unearthed: Episode 28
The Lead Poison Podcast
Licences
Elevated Work Platform above 11m
Swing Stage Platform
NDIS, Children Blue Card, Construction Blue Card
RIW Rail Industry Worker, WET3, CAT3, SARC, Fatigue Management
First Aid Cert