She received two terms of New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Fellowships and a University of Auckland Graduate Research Grant. Josephine is now teaching at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She is currently working on one research project and one publication granted by Annie Wong Arts Foundation, ‘Talking about Contemporary Art from China’ and ‘The Artist Voice of China’.

The intermingling of traditions and the attitudes to show history as a process of change are evident in her work. Josephine has moved considerably forward in her search for her own identity, taking images that are characteristically Chinese, fusing them and creating a new reality of her own. Her large multi-media canvas and linen works show an immediacy and a suggestion of speed. Her use of vibrant colours and texture, the cropping, pasting, enlarging and manipulating of images reflect a sense of contemporary China, as well as the changing views of the past and the future of China with a powerful post colonial edge.