Dug up from the forgotten ruins of urban environments, ‘Inanimate Assemblage’ depicts everyday objects elevated from below and re-examined as valued objects. Extending on Jane Bennets’ Vibrant Matter’ and theories from New Materialism, new ecologies form within the gallery space where matter assembles to become vibrant and alive.Empowering the theory that individualized objects titled as ‘trash’ may be afforded agency through processes of combination to become ‘treasure’. This allows the gallery to become a magical realm outside of prejudice, a sanctuary where notions of status afforded to humans or newly created items are removed and all objects or beings involved in actions of creation are deemed sentient. The dialogue formulated through the construction of works from discarded material reveals the flaws that exist within human exceptionalism. The obscene amounts of waste that humans produce from products initially deemed superior when they were first created, such as plastic packaging, electronics, and hard rubbish, are considered no more than an eyesore or inconvenience.By challenging the idea that people are more valuable than the environment, we exist in and consequently, that human-made substance is immediately superior to natural materials we in turn highlight that these said toxic and destructive objects must offer more than their immediate use. Indeed, a broken bike frame or shattered milk bottle is nothing more than rubbish to begin with, but our goal through using concepts implored by New Materialist theorists is that we hope to transform these passive, inanimate waste objects into an active form through actions that result in assemblage.