Link-Detached

In June 2025, Jo Hepburn staged her debut solo exhibition, Link-Detached, in her studio in Cheltenham. Situated within a domestic setting, the project acted as both a culmination and a reconfiguration of her ongoing sculptural-performance practice. The hybrid environment of home and studio was not merely a backdrop, but a dramaturgical engine, a catalyst for experimentation and encounter.

The house/studio became a testing ground: part rehearsal room, part set, part archive. Sculptures leaned, slouched, hovered on handles and domestic fixings. They rearranged themselves. They tripped visitors, dictated how bodies moved. Nothing was fixed. The exhibition offered not resolution, but encounter; an invitation into an unfolding process.

Exhibition text 'An Interview with Clump', used semi-fictional dialogue as a frame to explore the porous boundaries between artwork and environment, form and function, performer and prop. Absurdity and awkwardness were central strategies, resisting the over-seriousness often associated with contemporary sculptural display. These works did not aim to clarify meaning but to loosen it, allowing it to wobble in the gap between the familiar and the strange.

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All images courtesy of Millie Elliot.