Gavin Hurley / Plastic Myth

3 - 15 October 2006 - James Steel - Firstdraft

Posted: 3 October 2006 -

Gavin Hurley tackles the ominous guilt of colonialism in Australia and New Zealand with haunting imagery recovered from the era of Victorian formal realism. The contemporary investigation of those seemingly historical references suggests a desire to recreate or revise historical doctrine.

Hurley's Leger-esque portraits reveal a false masquerade anchored by the intense attention paid to the detail of the eyes. These 'windows to the soul' show identity to be a transient and shifting entity.