Works
- Long Established Power Symbols 2021
Composite digital collage (installation view)
(l-r, Heraldic Headless Griffyn Paintings #1, #4 and #5)
Image: Newport Street Gallery - Heraldic Headless Griffyn Painting #4 2021
Goauche on paper, A4
Statement
Hurlock’s recent works deals with the entropic deterioration of Heraldic symbolism and feudalistic power structure. Throughout history power structures have used symbolism and heraldry of common symbols, lions, unicorns, feathers and horses to instill and maintain authoritarian dynamics through the production and re-production of hand-painted symbols
Through a considered dismantling of these former images of feudalistic authoritarian power, these recent works discuss the significance of the hand-made mark and subsequent methods of reproduction as a parallel to contemporary image reappropriation and online image proliferation in social media, and the exponential digital artefacting that comes through the endless repetition of fact, source image, and the symbolism used by contemporary sources of power.
Biography
Harry Hurlock (b 1992, UK) is a painter and visual artist. He completed his Undergraduate Degree in Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Arts in 2014, and is currently studying for his MFA at the Glasgow School of Art.
Notable solo and group exhibitions include, ‘Harry Hurlock’ at Marie Blythe Gallery (solo- show, 2017), ‘Hahahaha’ at Doomed Gallery (solo-show, 2017), and a solo show at Hutt Gallery in Notingham in 2015. Group shows include ‘Like the green fig tree, MILK x WORKPLACE, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2017) and Da Thirst x Baltic 39: Dawn of Justice, Baltic Contemporary, Newcastle (2017). He is also selected for the upcoming 2021 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition.
Instagram: @harryhurlock