Flying Haptics, 2015
Cable ties, peg baskets, washers, rawl plugs, plastic curtain rings, soap dishes, hair curlers, label ties, beads, computer plug caps
Art writing and art making are a natural combination for Hurrell who used to write criticism for The Press in Christchurch in the mid-eighties. As a result of that and conversations he had with Billy Apple around that time, he became interested in the parallels (and differences) between review writing and art making as methods of dispersing opinion, the similarities (and contrasts) between so-called ‘rational’ preplanning that might be applied to justify argument, and spontaneous ‘illogicality’ that might be applied to mark making or linear ‘drawing’ elements suspended in space.
