Stephen Hurrel
Joins the expedition for week 2
Stephen Hurrel studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art and is currently based in Glasgow. He works with various contexts to produce temporary and permanent site-specific installations. He utilizes digital and analogue media.
His areas of interest include an investigation of ‘feedback’, ‘self-generating systems’ and ‘unconscious gestures’ – whether naturally occurring or man-made. He is interested in how different languages – artistic, cultural, technological, scientific – can intersect to create new forms. “By exploring these intersections I aim to create instances of a co- existence between a ‘natural state’ and a ‘constructed state’. I feel this more complex ‘state of co-existence’ to be a more accurate representation of how we perceive, and how we relate to, our environment(s) in the twenty-first century.”
Stephen was the recipient of a SAC Creative Scotland Award that enabled him to explore ideas around ‘art and ecology’ and ‘a technological sublime’ and to work with a computer programmer over a two-year period. Beneath and Beyond – A Seismic Sounds Installation was the outcome of this award. It was exhibited at Tramway as part of Glasgow International Visual Art Festival 2008, toured Australia 2009–2010 and showed at Pixxelpoint International New Media Art Festival, Slovenia and Italy in December 2010.
