Blessed Details 2017 Sculpture

Alicia Hurrell creates sculpture and installation where ornament is subject. The artist constructs her work from an array of traditional as well as contemporary mediums, such processes relevant to the concept of her work. She works with wood, metal and plaster and models in clay, sometimes casting these to create powerful rhythms of colour and at other times firing and glazing. She cuts and manipulates acrylic to mimic motifs and fabricates with varied textiles and accessories, adding these fabrications to the once merely functional form. In her work, the object moves from having a functional role to that of art. The artist explores styles of ornament and their potential for meaning. She seeks to enhance the symbolic value of objects through her creations of form and style sometimes injected with colour. The artist wishes to signify the potential of ornament to be more than mere decoration and instead communicate connections between the past and present.