Josie Cavallaro oscillates between making objects and facilitating projects that enable art to be made and experienced through diverse perspectives. Josie’s sculptural practice is largely informed by the built environment as shared multispecies sites. Her work observes mediated relationships between humans and other species and how conditioned environments and behaviour influence narratives of pest or partner.

As a facilitator, Josie generates projects that aim to extend frameworks for contemporary art practice. She was the co-founder and co-director of Belmore Institute for Try-hard Ceramicists and Handicrafters (Belmore ITCH), a residency program that supported both artists and people from non-arts fields to develop new cultural and/or material applications to ceramics.

Josie believes that diversity and universal access to the arts underpins innovation and broadens perceptions and possibilities for artistic forms.This sensibility and skill-set has led Josie to be employed by arts, cultural and government organisations such as Inner West Council, Accessible Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Biennale of Sydney.