'Loss' by Amelia Klein and Oli Dickinson

Amelia Klein and Oli Dickinson present 'Loss', a sculptural duo show.

"Since meeting at uni, we always found our practices interlink as we make cathartic art to share our personal understandings of loss and ambiguous loss. After suffering different, yet similar, forms of loss surrounding our father figures, our bond grew stronger as we navigated our grief side by side. We both share familial pain and try to exorcise it through creating tangible sculptures from intangible introspections.

Now 2 years graduated, our ideas flourish again at Assembly House, reflected in our joint exhibition - our thoughts, feelings, memories, baring all forms of consciousness."

Oli uses mosaic, ceramic and glass to create ambiguous abstracted sculptures to describe acute moments of her grief. She seeks to make intangible thoughts and feelings into tangible structures as a way of introspection and therapy. Taking inspiration from microscopic cellular formation and division, and contrasting macroscopic…