Link-Detached

In January 2025 Jo Hepburn set herself a five-month intensive challenge: to make new work and stage her own exhibition. Link-Detached is the result.

In June 2025, Jo staged her debut solo exhibition in her studio-home in Cheltenham. Situated within a domestic setting, the project acted as both a culmination and a reworking of her ongoing sculptural-performance practice. The site was not treated as a neutral backdrop but as an active condition, a rehearsal space, and a testing ground.

Link-Detached explored sculpture as score: a set of instructions, dependencies and contingencies that only fully emerge through use, time and proximity. Themes of risk, failure, co-dependence and humour ran throughout.​