BIO
Mary Hurrell (b. Gqeberha, South Africa) is an artist currently based in Bristol working between experimental music, performance and sculpture exploring forms of language and movement in relation to physical and psychological experience. Mary released her debut album FORMATIONS in 2024 and is currently a Studio Artist at Spike Island.
MUSICAL AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
Servants Jazz Quarters, London 2025
FORMATIONS Album Tour, OUTPOST Studios, Norwich 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, PINK, Stockport, Manchester 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, Spanners, London 2024
St Marks Drone Society, The Old Church, London 2023
Cafe OTO, Calling Cards Publishing Presents 2021
Auto-Poem, Nicoletti x London Gallery Weekend, London 2021
Corsica Studios, London 2019
Jupiter Rising x Edinburgh Art Festival, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh 2019
Cafe OTO, London 2019
hmn 16, Bedford House, London 2019
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2018
Cafe OTO, London 2018
Movement Study 6, The Bower, London 2018
3(OXIORCAD), Flat Time House, London 2018
1(PITCH), Body Ecologies 1, organised by fluent, Centro Botin, Spain 2018
Going Along Without A Body, IKLECTIK, London 2017
Apologies In Advance 4, IKLECTIK, London 2017
STEREOSKIN, Herdubreid Biosal, Seydisfjordur, Iceland 2017
An Evening Of Performances, The Roberts Institute of Art, London 2016
EROTIC MECHANICS, 10 Martello Street, London 2016
Power Lunches London 2015
My Vocabulary Did This Too Me, South London Gallery 2014
SILVER, Outpost, Norwich 2014
Coda, Bold Tendencies X Sadler’s Wells Weekend, London 2012
SOLOS, In-Use, Performance Evening, Acme Project Space, London 2012
BROADCASTS
21.07.24 Calling Cards Publishing w/ Mary Hurrell, Clyde Built Radio
31.07.22 Avalanche Candy, Future Artefacts, RTM Radio
12.02.22 Blush Response & Periscope, RADIOPHRENIA
April 2021 Blush Response, Nicoletti Audio
30.01.21 Digital Fluid, Tier-Plus Radio
DISCOGRAPHY
Mary Hurrell FORMATIONS (Calling Cards Publishing 2024)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
BELT OF VENUS, Deiglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
BUOY, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, 2021
2(AERIAL), Kunstraum, London, 2018
Release All Whales From Captivity, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, 2013
Key Blank, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, 2012
Call/Coda, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, 2012
Mary Hurrell, Mirror Gallery, Arts University Plymouth, 2008
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
PICNIC, Flat Time House, London 2024 PAGE/STAGE/SPACE, curated by motor dance journal, San Mei Gallery, London 2024
By Indirections Find Directions Out, Yamakiwa Gallery, Japan 2018
Body Echo, Nicoletti Contemporary, Paris 2018
Pharos/Beacons, Caustic Coastal, Manchester 2017
LOTUS, Bosse & Baum, London 2017
Tarantallegra, HESTER, New York 2016
Left Hand to Back of Head, Bluecoat, Liverpool 2016
London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2015
OPEN SOURCE Contemporary Art Festival, London 2015
SCREENINGS
PERISCOPE, Boreal Screendance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland 2023
STEREOSKIN & MOVEMENT STUDY 6, Brunswick Park Film Festival, The Bower, London 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Mary Hurrell, EROTIC MECHANICS-mappings (Publication Studio London 2018)
SELECTED INTERVIEWS & PRESS
06.08.2024 FORMATIONS Mary Hurrell Blake Crieghton for As If No Way
August 2022 Mary Hurrell: Glimpses of the Crystal Skein Chris Fite-Wassilak
19.11.2020 Figure Figure N°35 SANDY DI YU in conversation with MARY HURRELL
28.08.2019 Loud and Quiet, Jupiter Rising, Dafydd Jenkins
09.03.2018 Frieze, Profile: Mary Hurrell’s Fluid Forms by Chris Fite-Wassilak
12.12.2016 Frieze, 2016 Highlights: Brian Dillon
RESIDENCIES
PRAXIS, fluent, Santander, Spain 2023
BrittenPears Arts, Aldeburgh 2023
Gilfélagið, Akureyri, Iceland 2022
Yamakiwa, Tokamachi, Japan 2018
Radical Affinites, Flat Time House & Kunstraum, London 2018
Skaftfell Center For Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 2017
Jerusalem Residency, London / Sheffield 2012
SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland 2008
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Help Musicians Develop Your Music 2024
PRAXIS Participate Grant, fluent 2023
Because of Many Suns, The Collezione Taurisano Acquisition Award 2021
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2020
Fluxus Art Projects Grant 2020
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2017
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2015
Mary Hurrell (b. Gqeberha, South Africa) is an artist currently based in Bristol working between experimental music, performance and sculpture exploring forms of language and movement in relation to physical and psychological experience. Mary released her debut album FORMATIONS in 2024 and is currently a Studio Artist at Spike Island.
MUSICAL AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
Servants Jazz Quarters, London 2025
FORMATIONS Album Tour, OUTPOST Studios, Norwich 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, PINK, Stockport, Manchester 2024
FORMATIONS Album Tour, Spanners, London 2024
St Marks Drone Society, The Old Church, London 2023
Cafe OTO, Calling Cards Publishing Presents 2021
Auto-Poem, Nicoletti x London Gallery Weekend, London 2021
Corsica Studios, London 2019
Jupiter Rising x Edinburgh Art Festival, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh 2019
Cafe OTO, London 2019
hmn 16, Bedford House, London 2019
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 2018
Cafe OTO, London 2018
Movement Study 6, The Bower, London 2018
3(OXIORCAD), Flat Time House, London 2018
1(PITCH), Body Ecologies 1, organised by fluent, Centro Botin, Spain 2018
Going Along Without A Body, IKLECTIK, London 2017
Apologies In Advance 4, IKLECTIK, London 2017
STEREOSKIN, Herdubreid Biosal, Seydisfjordur, Iceland 2017
An Evening Of Performances, The Roberts Institute of Art, London 2016
EROTIC MECHANICS, 10 Martello Street, London 2016
Power Lunches London 2015
My Vocabulary Did This Too Me, South London Gallery 2014
SILVER, Outpost, Norwich 2014
Coda, Bold Tendencies X Sadler’s Wells Weekend, London 2012
SOLOS, In-Use, Performance Evening, Acme Project Space, London 2012
BROADCASTS
21.07.24 Calling Cards Publishing w/ Mary Hurrell, Clyde Built Radio
31.07.22 Avalanche Candy, Future Artefacts, RTM Radio
12.02.22 Blush Response & Periscope, RADIOPHRENIA
April 2021 Blush Response, Nicoletti Audio
30.01.21 Digital Fluid, Tier-Plus Radio
DISCOGRAPHY
Mary Hurrell FORMATIONS (Calling Cards Publishing 2024)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
BELT OF VENUS, Deiglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
BUOY, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, 2021
2(AERIAL), Kunstraum, London, 2018
Release All Whales From Captivity, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, 2013
Key Blank, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, 2012
Call/Coda, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, 2012
Mary Hurrell, Mirror Gallery, Arts University Plymouth, 2008
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
PICNIC, Flat Time House, London 2024 PAGE/STAGE/SPACE, curated by motor dance journal, San Mei Gallery, London 2024
By Indirections Find Directions Out, Yamakiwa Gallery, Japan 2018
Body Echo, Nicoletti Contemporary, Paris 2018
Pharos/Beacons, Caustic Coastal, Manchester 2017
LOTUS, Bosse & Baum, London 2017
Tarantallegra, HESTER, New York 2016
Left Hand to Back of Head, Bluecoat, Liverpool 2016
London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2015
OPEN SOURCE Contemporary Art Festival, London 2015
SCREENINGS
PERISCOPE, Boreal Screendance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland 2023
STEREOSKIN & MOVEMENT STUDY 6, Brunswick Park Film Festival, The Bower, London 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Mary Hurrell, EROTIC MECHANICS-mappings (Publication Studio London 2018)
SELECTED INTERVIEWS & PRESS
06.08.2024 FORMATIONS Mary Hurrell Blake Crieghton for As If No Way
August 2022 Mary Hurrell: Glimpses of the Crystal Skein Chris Fite-Wassilak
19.11.2020 Figure Figure N°35 SANDY DI YU in conversation with MARY HURRELL
28.08.2019 Loud and Quiet, Jupiter Rising, Dafydd Jenkins
09.03.2018 Frieze, Profile: Mary Hurrell’s Fluid Forms by Chris Fite-Wassilak
12.12.2016 Frieze, 2016 Highlights: Brian Dillon
RESIDENCIES
PRAXIS, fluent, Santander, Spain 2023
BrittenPears Arts, Aldeburgh 2023
Gilfélagið, Akureyri, Iceland 2022
Yamakiwa, Tokamachi, Japan 2018
Radical Affinites, Flat Time House & Kunstraum, London 2018
Skaftfell Center For Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 2017
Jerusalem Residency, London / Sheffield 2012
SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland 2008
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Help Musicians Develop Your Music 2024
PRAXIS Participate Grant, fluent 2023
Because of Many Suns, The Collezione Taurisano Acquisition Award 2021
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2020
Fluxus Art Projects Grant 2020
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2017
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of England 2015
