Profile for John Hurrell
Member Since: 3 Dec 2005Total Topics: 122
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Apple ‘Abstracts’
It is extremely interesting in these current questioning times - when the notion of ‘site specificity’ is being loudly challenged by Miwon Kwon, Claire Doherty, James Meyer and others – to see th...
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25 Oct 2007
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Delights of the K’ Rd art strip
Let’s talk first about reading…When you notice them, the textual convention of footnotes can be a dilemma. Sometimes the annotated references in an essay are far more interesting than the carefully...
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17 Oct 2007
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John Hurrell
31 Oct 2007 12:23 am
Another approach to painting
The second instalment of PX is much closer to the first than what might have been anticipated, but with a very different focus. Here Jan Bryant has looked at tropes of painting rather than materialitie...
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John Hurrell
3 Oct 2007
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Shapes of Things
Thornley's constructions consist of various interlocking pieces made of wood, each separate element covered with canvas, gessoed, painted and then assembled. A painstaking process for works that by the...
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26 Sep 2007
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John Hurrell
27 Sep 2007 11:04 am
Buttered Butts and Bits
Shepherd’s towering, revolving statue of a hetero couple ecstatically screwing, accompanied by lurid lighting and a disco soundtrack, makes a pithy comment about economy and repression. Shepherd’s ...
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John Hurrell
19 Sep 2007
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alibi
20 Sep 2007 12:09 am
Heaven's Security Service
Hamilton’s mini-gallery Ledge is found just around the corner from RAMP in Collingwood St, in the adjacent Media Arts foyer next door. It usually presents its exhibitions enclosed within a Perspex bo...
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12 Sep 2007
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John Hurrell
12 Sep 2007 12:13 pm
Stacks Hung On the Walls
I’m very partial to Julian Dashper’s minimalist paintings, maybe his circular images more than the rectangular stretchers with stripes -although the four coloured, canvas work pictured here is part...
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3 Sep 2007
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Gallery As Forum
It is an exciting notion, the premise underpinning this exhibition, that painting perseveres despite its so-called political irrelevance. It shows no sign of disappearing, while continuing to unblushin...
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3 Sep 2007
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I am Tiger Woods
13 Sep 2007 12:13 pm
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Hi Mark I'm the map painter Artbasher told you about.I usually work with ways I've discovered of drawing using maps, and always with black paint only. As AB said above,I don't usually browse the store...
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4 Apr 2006 10:36 pm reply to This Is No Joke
Actually Dane Mitchell should have got $20,000. The other art award held in Hamilton in the Gardens every year has that amount, not $15,000, for prize money. He was robbed.
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13 Sep 2009 12:52 am reply to Charlotte Huddleston Poor...
Early Cohen use of floor drawing robot was fantastic, but then the works became figurative and corny. He never got the machine to make colour decisions,either, I think? Such a shame.
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9 Dec 2008 2:53 pm reply to The Cybernetics of Painti...
Surely manual skill should not intrude on the ideas or raison d'etre of the work -assuming they exist. It should not be ostentatious or flashy, but be merely sufficient to do the job. Craft by itself, ...
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16 Nov 2008 1:48 am reply to Hurrell versus technique ...
Like yr comments above, TW. David is an inspired choice. Pure brilliance. She is forthright and clear about her view of things. Her visit cannot help but be immensely interesting. Despite the dreadful...
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12 Aug 2008 3:29 pm reply to CATHERINE DAVID - CHANCRE...
One might disagree with Catherine David's style of assembling exhibitions, but let's not get personal and racist. At least she puts her name next to what she believes, and doesn't pathetically hide beh...
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12 Aug 2008 2:53 pm reply to CATHERINE DAVID - CHANCRE...
Some grunty and eloquent turns of phrase, Flake. Best piece of writing you've done. I've no idea if it is accurate, but nice commentary.
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24 Jul 2008 1:13 am reply to Enjoy Public Good
