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New paintings and collages by GAVIN HURLEY where the artist continues his reworking and revisiting of previous works within his own oeuvre. 

“I am referencing images I have made from art school days at Elam to more recently over the past few years. Boy is a hybrid image of Jean Cocteau’s face with someone else’s haircut and the Rita images are based on Douglas Macdiamid’s ‘Rita Cook’ from the Hocken Collection in Dunedin”

Each work is from the visitor’s perspective – a voyeuristic peak into the artist’s studio.  Hurley imagines the viewer as a visitor to his studio (a luxury even for gallerists in current times) with imagery of finished works stacked against each other revealing glimpses of pieces that have gone before.