Jeanne Gaigher (b.1990) lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Gaigher’s artistic practice is characterized by a deep engagement with texture, layers, and the interplay between abstraction and figuration. Gaigher’s work includes a mixture of fabrics, gauze, painting and drawing and is constructed in a very sculptural, architectural way but takes on an anatomical feeling. To create these sculptural paintings, Gaigher starts with the background and then adds fabric elements that enhance or conceal the imagery. In most of her work the female body serves as protagonist, aiming to show the tension between the human body and the context surrounding it and bringing up situations of transitions and metamorphosis.
Gaigher has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions such as Mind Middle at Paulina Caspari (Munich, DE) and group psyche at RESERVOIR (Cape Town,
ZA). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (London, UK) and Well Well Well (Vienna, AT). Recognitions include residencies such as tac.residency in Tuscany, Italy and the Villa Filanda Antonini residency under the Arper Feltrin Foundation.
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Jeanne Gaigher
wheel of love, 2025
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, raw canvas, thread
195 x 136 cm
 
Jeanne Gaigher
wheel of love, 2025 – Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
wheel of love, 2025 – Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
The constant risk of mimicking other _______, or of being at constant risk of being forced into a relationship with ________, 2025
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, raw canvas, thread
203 x 180 cm
 
Jeanne Gaigher
Lymphatic alphabet, 2025
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, raw canvas, thread
180 x 110 cm
 
Jeanne Gaigher
Lymphatic alphabet, 2025 – Detail
Left – Jeanne Gaigher
forever, just one more time than never, 2024
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim thread, pastels and oilpastels
126 x 200 cm
Right – Jeanne Gaigher
we, we will stay together, 2024
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim thread, pastels and oilpastels
126 x 197 cm
Jeanne Gaigher
forever, just one more time than never, 2024
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
forever, just one more time than never, 2024
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
Mind Middle 6, 2024
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, raw canvas, thread
142 x 124 cm
 
Jeanne Gaigher
Mind Middle 6, 2024
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher – Mind Middle
Paulina Caspari, Munich
21.06.– 27.07.2024
Jeanne Gaigher
Mind Middle 2, 2024
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, paper, scrim, raw canvas, thread, stretched on canvas
90 x 120 cm
Jeanne Gaigher
Mind Middle 2, 2024
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 1), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, Belgian linen and thread
200 x 49.5 cm
Jeanne Gaigher
Installation view – group psyche, RESERVOIR Projects, Cape Town, ZA
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 2), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, Belgian linen and thread
200 x 49.5 cm
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 2), 2023
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 2), 2023
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 3), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, Belgian linen and thread
200 x 49.5 cm 
Jeanne Gaigher
Installation view – group psyche, RESERVOIR Projects, Cape Town, ZA
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation
how could things be otherwise a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 4), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, scrim, raw canvas, Belgian linen and thread
96 x 113 x 5.5 cm
Jeanne Gaigher
mind, middle, sensations
choking with expectation how could things be otherwise
a world evolving according to it’s own rhythms
responsive life
a sequence from the back to the front (sketch 3), 2023
Detail 
Jeanne Gaigher
The sieve of secrecy (sequence no1), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim, thread
200 x 135 cm
 
Jeanne Gaigher 
The sieve of secrecy (sequence no1), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim, thread
200 x 135 cm
Detail 
Jeanne Gaigher
The sieve of secrecy (sequence no2), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim, thread
200 x 135 cm
Detail
 
Jeanne Gaigher
The sieve of secrecy (sequence no2), 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolour, raw canvas, bookbinders scrim, thread
200 x 135 cm 
Jeanne Gaigher
Dimensions of a dialogue II, 2022
Acrylic, ink, watercolor, scrim, raw canvas, thread
300 x 500 cm
Jeanne Gaigher – Anatomy lesson
Wschód, Warsaw
26.02. – 23.04, 2022
Jeanne Gaigher
Dimensions of a dialogue II, 2022
Acrylic, ink, watercolor, scrim, raw canvas, thread
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
Dimensions of a dialogue II, 2022
Acrylic, ink, watercolor, scrim, raw canvas, thread
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
If it’s for you, it won’t pass you, 2022
300 x 250cm
Jeanne Gaigher, Youssra Raouchi, Sofiia Yesakova – Memories we have forgotten
theaddressgallery, Brescia
10.02. – 27.03.2024
Jeanne Gaigher 
If it’s for you, it won’t pass you, 2022
300 x 250cm
Detail
Jeanne Gaigher
Arc, to look at or over, 2021
Acrylic, ink on canvas and scrim
138 × 173 cm
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