Adopt-a-Worrier

Terracotta Worriers - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell (concept) and Lyn Lovegrove Niemz (sculpture) at Fabrik Art Nov 2020. Photo Sam Roberts.

Adopt-a-worrier Auction cancelled

We have decided to cancel the Terracotta Worriers auction planned for January 26th at 2pm. For anyone who has already expressed interest, we can honour your commitment to the work, under two conditions:

You agree to donate a minimum of $100 to a climate justice organisation of your choice. Pricing is to be self-determined, but we ask you to donate at least $100 to an independent climate justice organisation or campaign and send us a receipt of your donation.
You agree to document your adoption process with the Terracotta Worrier you selected, by sending photos and text to us via email, to be published on this website.

Please email us with your Terracotta Worrier photos and text, and your donation receipts, ideally 1-3 photos of the Worriers you adopted in their new location.

You can contact us below and view some of the Worriers’ denialist army at www.thisbreath.space/gallery, or at Signal Point Gallery until January 28th, 4pm.

The Terracotta Worriers are unfired clay effigies, a denialist army of exquisite pottery sculptures adorned with daily distractions. Essentially co-opted to become our tour guides, the ‘Worriers’ appear across venues and cross different media of the work, they march over and under dry river-beds, abandoned car parks, fire-ravaged bush and are left to decay in sacrificial zones.

Their goal is to remind us that we are bound together on this planet and to challenge the privileged ‘status quo’ myth that separates us. They are the guardians of our ignorance amidst complex crises and consumerist globalisation, and their myriad of emotions a crumbling reminder where avoidance, cowardice and fear can lead us.

Now they are looking for new homes, to be cared and nurtured as we collectively overcome our denial and take care of all living beings.

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