On the 17/18th December Mary will present a selection of works-in-progress halfway through her residency at Gil Society. Titled Belt of Venus, her new body of work explores paradoxical states and feelings of home/transition, emotion/weather and the visible/invisible through working with sound, text, collage, clothing, light and movement. The title references the pink light and atmospheric phenomenon visible shortly before sunrise and after sunset during twilight and dusk; a time of transition and space inbetween.

Mary Hurrell (b.1982 South Africa) is an artist currently based in the UK. Working across sound production, live performance and sculpture, she explores forms of language and movement in relation to physical and psychological experience.

She has presented performances and exhibitions with Nicoletti Contemporary, Cafe OTO, The Bower, Jupiter Rising Festival, The Roberts Institute of Art, South London Gallery, Bold Tendencies and Whitechapel Gallery. In 2018 she produced mappings, a trilogy of live and installation based works conceived as one choreography across three spaces at Flat Time House, Kunstraum (UK) and Centro Botin (Spain). Her work has been reviewed in Frieze, Figure Figure and Mousse Magazine. In 2021, her sound work Blush Response was awarded the Because of Many Suns prize by Collezione Taurisano. Recent residencies include Yamakiwa Gallery (Japan), Flat Time House (London) and Skaftfell Center For Visual Art (Iceland).

Artists Website: https://maryhurrell.cargo.site/