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 both as a culmination and a reworking of her ongoing sculptural practice. The site was not treated as a neutral backdrop, but as an active condition: a rehearsal space, testing ground, and living system.

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Link-Detached explored the domestic environment as a network of overlapping bodily, spatial and object-based systems, structures that continually shape, interrupt and reorganise one another. Works were built within the space, moved through it, obstructed it, and adapted to it over time. The exhibition treated the home as a container for repeated rehearsals: of movement, dependency, maintenance, failure and co-existence.

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Throughout the exhibition, sculpture operated less as fixed object and more as score, a set of instructions, contingencies and relations that only fully emerged through proximity, use and duration. Themes of risk, memory, instability and humour ran throughout.