John Hurrell | Bio
John Hurrell is also an art writer for http://eyecontactsite.com/
Solo exhibitions
1979 Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery
1981 Christchurch, CSA Gallery
1983 Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery
Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Diptych
1984 Wellington, Louise Beale Gallery
1986 Wellington, Louise Beale Gallery, Uber Den Horizont
Christchurch, James Paul Gallery (Colombo St.), Ferne Kusten
Christchurch, James Paul Gallery (Victoria St), Wild Visionary Indexical
1987 Auckland , Artspace, Uber Den Horizont
1988 Wellington, Louise Beale Gallery, A Cure for the Common Code
Auckland, Artspace, Dispersals
1989 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Four Portraits
1990 Wellington, Louise Beale Gallery, Take Ten Moas
1991 Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Annex, A Good Noise
Hamilton, Centre Gallery of Contemporary Art, A Good Noise
1993 Canberra, Photospace, Self Portraits
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Structural Constellations
Christchurch, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Structural Constellations
1994 Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Old Lines/New Stock
1995 Wellington, New Work Studio, Frisky Fields
1999 New Plymouth, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, M’aplique
2004 Christchurch, 64zero3, Particles in [Canterbury] Space
2008 Auckland, City Art Rooms, curated by Young Sun Han and Kylie Sanderson, John Hurrell: Selected Works 1981- 2008
2010 Auckland, City Art Rooms, John Hurrell: Expurgating Content in Favour of the Ludic
2012 Snake Pit windows, High St, Auckland . Plasti-cuffs Liberation and Soapdish Exoneration
Selected group exhibitions
1978 Christchurch, Christchurch Arts centre, Paintings/Sculpture (with Bing Dawe, Dave Elliot and Peter Wolden).
1979 Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, New Canterbury Contemporaries.
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Dice Scores as Content (with Paul Johns, curated by Billy Apple).
1980 Christchurch, CSA Gallery, Package Deal.
Rotorua Art Gallery, Air New Zealand Art Award (Finalist)
Christchurch CSA, Bensen and Hedges Art Award (National Tour)
1983 Auckland City Art Gallery, The Grid: Lattice and Network, (National Tour).
Hobart, Australia, ANZART in Hobart.
1984 Dunedin, Art in Dunedin
1985 Hamilton, Centre Gallery of Contemporary Art, Five Christchurch Artists
Christchurch, CSA Gallery, Big Paintings
Auckland City Art Gallery, Chance and Change
1986 Nelson, Bishop Suter Art Gallery, The Word (National Tour)
1987 Perth, Australia, ARX’ 87
Wellington, City Art Gallery, Drawing Analogies
1988 Wellington, City Limits, Monsters from the Id
1989 New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Putting the Land on the Map (National Tour)
Wellington, National Library, Art Too
Wellington, Shed 11, Nobodies.
1990 Auckland City Art Gallery, Acquisitions Review 1988-90 Sydney, Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Temporal Frames
Australian Touring Exhibition of New Zealand Works on Paper, Heart and Land
1991 New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Signatures of Place
Sydney, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Headlands
1992 Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Prospect Canterbury 92
1994 Christchurch, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Lost Ground
Wellington, New Work Studio, Networks (with Peter Roche)
New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, The Face
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery, Taking Stock of the Nineties
Wellington, Wellington City Gallery, Visa Gold Art Award
Christchurch, High Street Project, Prostrate Canterbury
Christchurch, McDougall Art Annex, Studio
Christchurch, CSA Gallery, Fax About Art
Auckland, Teststrip, Striptease
Christchurch, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Cornucopia
1995 Wellington, City Gallery, A Very Peculiar Practice
Christchurch, High Street Project, Advent
Christchurch, CSA Gallery, CSA Christmas Show
Wellington, New Work Studio, Born Under A Bad Sign
1996 Wellington /Amsterdam The World Over/Under Capricorn , commissioned website
Melbourne, Linden Gallery, Failure
2000 Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington The Numbers Game: Creative connections between art and mathematics.
2006 64zero3, Christchurch. Black, white and shades of grey.
July group show with Robin Neate, Simon Morris, Helen Calder, Julia Morison and Scott Flanagan
Wellington, Te Papa Tongarewa, Toi Te Papa
2007 64zero3, Christchurch, Christmas group show.
2008 City Art Rooms, Auckland, Unlimited
64zero3, Christchurch, 64
Auckland Art Gallery, In Shifting Light, curated by Ron Brownson
2009 Christchurch Art Gallery, The Naked and the Nude, curated by Justin Paton
City Art Rooms, Black Candy
2010 City Art Rooms, Summer Drunk Tank, Curated by Young Sun Han
Published Art Works
1986 B/tween ‘A’ and ‘C’ Splash, April 4, 62-63
1886 Driving on Two Wheels Down a One -Way Street, Antic 1:85
Untitled, Untold:4
1987 Cover, Untold:7
1997 Cover, A Brief Description of the Whole World: 7
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Auckland City Art Gallery
Chartwell Trust
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foresight,
Hocken Library
Fletcher Challenge
Te Papa Tongarewa
National Library
Prospect
Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Rotorua Art Gallery.
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Awards
1990 working grant for producing work in France
1994 major Fellowship Grant
Creative New Zealand Grants
2007 $10,000 writers grant for a series of Auckland art reviews
2009 $70,000 grant for development of eyeCONTACT, writing and editorial work and commissioning of other writers
2010 $50,000 grant for development of EyeContact, writing and editorial work and commissioning of other writers
Artist residencies
1988 Dunedin, Otago Polytecnic/Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1993 Canberra, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
International exhibitions
1983 ANZART in Hobart
1989 ARX in Perth, curated by Robert Leonard
1990 Temporal Frames, Ivan Daugherty Gallery, Sydney
1991, Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, MCA, Sydney
1996 The World Over; Under Capricorn, curated by Wystan Curnow
1996 Failure, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
A selected bibliography of articles on his own art
Barton, Tina, Drawing Analogies Drawing Analogies, ed. Burke, Wellington City Art Gallery, 1988 p.9
Barrie, Lita, Beyond Aesthetics: Readings in Cultural Intervention, Art New Zealand 46 , pp. 98-102 (illus.)
Bett, Elva, Hurrell’s Pasta Confounds, Dominion, Feb.17, 1984
Bett, Elva, New Zealand Art: A Modern Perspective ,Reed Methuen, 1986 pp. 61-3 (illust.)
Bogle, Andrew, The Grid: Lattice and Network, Auckland City Art Gallery 1983
Bogle, Andrew, Chance in Art: The Indeterminacy Aesthetic 2 Art New Zealand 22 pp. 50-51 (illust.)
Bromfield, David, ARX Art Monthly Nov. 1987 p.13
Brown, Warrick, Conceptual Art – Ideas and Aesthetics New Zealand Sunday Times Sept 11, 1983 p.12
Brown Warrick, Another 100 New Zealand Artists, Godwit, 1996, p.42
Cain, Stephen, Ghosts from an Obsession Evening Post, 31 May, 1994, p.7
Curnow, Wystan, Putting the Land on the Map, Putting the Land on the Map, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1988
Hanley, Beth, Heart and Land, Art Monthly, March 1991, Canberra, pp.12-13
Hoffie, Pat, and Grayson, Richard, ARX Artlink, Vol. 7, No.4 Dec. 87, p.6 (illust.)
Intra, Giovanni, Mental Health in the Metropolis, Midwest No.6, 1995, pp. 39- 40 (illust.)
Leech, Peter, Unthinking Thoughts: John Hurrell and Siegfried Koglmeier at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Art New Zealand 53, p.40
Leonard, Robert, Limited Sedition, New Zealand Artists in ARX, Perth, Sept.1987
Leonard, Robert, Four New Zealand Artists, Praxis M, No.18, p.30
Leonard, Robert, Nobodies, Nobodies, National Art Gallery, 1989
Leonard Robert, Layered Land, New Zealand Yearbook 1990, p.317
McAloon, William, Hurrell’s Talent on Show, The Press, September 12, 1991
Paton, Justin, Hurrell Paintings, Watson Works, The Press, September July 13, 1993, p.21
Pound, Francis, Signatures of Place, Signatures of Place, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1991
Regnault, Claire, A Very Peculiar Practice, City Gallery, Wellington, June 1995
Riley, Brett, Spelling it Out, New Zealand Listener, May 14, 1983
Shaw, Errol, (essay) The Word: An Introduction to Words as Imagery in Contemporary New Zealand Art, The Word , Bishop Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, 1986
Smart, Jonathan, Feierung der Ambivalenz Christchurch Star, 24 September, 1986, p.10
Smart, Jonathan, Big Paintings at the CSA, Art New Zealand 37, p.21 (illust.)
Smither, Elizabeth, Paintings and Places, Signatures of Place at the Govett-Brewster, Art New Zealand 61
Snell, Ted, ARX, Art and Australia, Vol 25, No. 3, pp. 330-332 (illust.)
Stanhope,Zara, One,Two,Three,Four,Knock at my door The Numbers Game Adam Art Gallery,Victoria University 2000
Taylor, Robert, Hurrell Poses a Painting Puzzle, The Dominion, April 7, 1986
Taylor, Robert, A Projection of Loose Fragments, The Dominion, Feb.14, 1990, p.10
Taylor, Robert, Figures Depict the Nobodies In Us All, The Dominion, September 20, 1989
Thomas, Daniel, The Scope of ANZART HOBART,1983. A Survey, Island Magazine Supplement, 1983, p.8
Thomas, Michael, Christchurch: John Hurrell, Paul Johns Art New Zealand 22, p.22
Tyler, Linda, and Phipps, Jennifer, Heart and Land, Heart and Land
Watson, Ruth, Much Ado About some Bodies, Antic 6, 1989, p.5
Watson, Ruth, Science Fictions, Structural Constellations, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1993
Webb, Evan, Christchurch: Mike Armstrong’s Reversible Paintings, Art New Zealand 28, p.13
Webb, Evan, Portraits on the Land, Four Portraits, Tuscan Press, Christchurch, 1989
Wedde, Ian, The Garden City Goes to Europe, The Evening Post, March 31, 1986
Wedde, Ian, Head Stuff and Hand Signals, The Evening Post, April 28, 1987
Wedde, Ian, Pique of His Career, The Evening Post, March 8, 1990, p.19
Weston, Tom, Wild ,Visionary, Indexical, The Press, September 20. 1986, p.33
