Mary Hurrell is an artist working across experimental music, performance and sculpture exploring forms of language and movement in relation to physical and psychological experience. She is interested in intimacy, presence, sensuality and the paradoxical. Hurrell draws upon her background in dance to consider movement as a central material and migratory substance between bodies, materials and mediums. Working with her voice and body –– via the textual, sonic and muscular –– her work occupies a space between precision and fluidity, abstraction and specificity, to reimagine the relationships between and within our bodies.
Mary Hurrell (b.Gqeberha, South Africa) lives and works in Bristol, UK. Mary released her debut album ‘FORMATIONS’ with Calling Cards Publishing in 2024 and has previously presented performances and projects with; motor dance journal, St Marks Drone Society, Cafe OTO, Jupiter Rising Festival, RTM Radio, IKLECTIK, Flat Time House, fluent, The Roberts Institute of Art, South London Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery. Recent artist residencies include PRAXIS organised by fluent (Spain) 2023; BrittenPears Arts (UK) 2023; Gilfélagið (Iceland) 2022 and Yamakiwa Gallery (Japan) 2018.