Hug Me While The World Ends
About This Event
18th July – 27th September
Wednesday – Sunday 10-5pm (Garden admission includes entrance to the exhibition)
Amelia Johnson’s paper mache and ceramic figures gather like recollected characters from a dream. Playful, peculiar and deeply human, her sculptures draw from the quiet theatre of everyday life. Johnson’s debut solo show Hug Me While The World Ends invites visitors into a world where humour and melancholy sit side by side.
Born from everyday observations, Johnson draws upon the feelings of an increasingly disheartened world. A symptom of our fickle and ever-changing modern landscape. The artist invites you to consider a documentation of the now, an ironic state of connection and disconnection. Through familiar gestures, passing faces, and strange encounters, the works peruse our everyday lives and shape them into something uncanny, yet surreal. Hug Me While The World Ends is a call for comfort amidst it all.
The works include life sized multi-media figures and installations, as well as smaller works in ceramic, all of which are an amalgamation of observed and imagined characters. Johnson sculpts these pieces almost entirely from memory, a way of drawing life in the round. By creating these pieces from recollected moments they walk the boundary between real, and the imagined.
