Growing Pains, 2024, Intermission Gallery

homesick, 2024,

scanned images from journal and bedroom wall, childhood photographs, wallpaper, collaged images, found images, found objects, loved objects  


Curator: @el_jade__

How do we grow into adults when so much of our childhood lingers in the spaces we create and the treasures we can’t part with?

Growing Pains emerges from cardboard boxes and childhood teddy bears that will remain in our beds forever. This exhibition captures the tension between growing up and holding on. I was drawn to curate this fleeting moment for young adults—a poignant reflection on the anxiety that accompanies the transition to adulthood.

Each artist juxtaposes this hesitation with a deep desire to console and preserve the cherished memories of childhood: on our bedroom walls, in the parks where we spent hours, in the way everything once felt so big, in the personal stories and places we discover, and in the clothes that kept our four-year-old selves warm.

- Ella Peck


“ It’s those little nuances of a person’s bedroom that reflects your present personhood, the childhood innocence you wish to not let go, the safe haven that protects you from the outside world, so love your bedroom as if it forever guards those precious moments for you.”  - Billee Byrne

Poem written for publication of exhibtion: