- Sat Mar 14, 2026 @ 14:00
- Led by Amy J WIlson & Meitao Qu
Explore how methods of model-making can be used to imagine utopian futures and prompt reflective dialogue about climate challenges.
Free & open to all
Journey through imagined worlds & speculative futures with Prefab Paradise, a new exhibition by Amy J Wilson and Meitao Qu at Turf Projects. Blending miniature dioramas and immersive technology, visitors are invited to contemplate entangled utopian visions of natural and built environments. A central human habitat is surrounded by four natural biomes: rainforest, grassland, ocean and desert, with visitors invited to take a first person view of the constructed worlds through digital first person view goggles and projection.
The project draws from real and fictional spaces portraying an idealised image of nature that haunts our collective consciousness, including the Cold War era experiment of BIOS-3, contemporary proposals for megastructures, the underwater city of Rapture from videogame Bioshock, and popular references such as the Windows XP desktop background. Prefab Paradise invites us to consider the idea of “utopia” less as a single idea, and more as something unstable and contested; shaped by politics, technology, marketing and collective imagination.
The project has been developed alongside a series of workshops with Art Press and Croydon School of Art students, exploring speculative modelmaking, worldbuilding and social dreaming. Participants were invited to build their own biosphere using a combination of physical modelmaking, digital worldbuilding and 3D printing processes. Their worlds are on display as part of the collaborative installation.
Research and development for Prefab Paradise was supported by Collusion through their ART//TECH//PLAY programme.
Photography credit: Oliver Mounir.
Amy J Wilson works across printmaking, ceramics and digital media. She uses these mediums to create components which are combined into sculptural configurations. Her work is informed by histories of representation, from the artificiality of tools like Alberti’s window to the dominance of Euclidean geometry in contemporary game engines. Windows, portals, screens and membranes are recurrent motifs throughout her practice. Wilson uses methods of representation as a lens to explore object, animal and environmental agency.
Amy J Wilson studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA 2017-19), where she was awarded the Felix Slade Scholarship. She is currently a studio member at Turf Projects in Croydon. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the ICA, London (2024); Erratum Gallery, Berlin (2024); OHSH Projects, London (2025); Seager, London (2025); and Lewisham Arthouse, London (2026). In 2025 she was selected for A-N’s Artist Bursary and was artist-in-residence at Atelier La Juntana, Santandar, Spain.