Event
Artist Walk & Talk | The Wind from the Feet of the Dead Nigel Hurlstone
24th January 2026 - 24th January 2026
Exhibition Opening: 2pm, Saturday 24th January 2026
With an Artist Walk & Talk at 2.30pm
FREE | All Welcome
As The Wind from the Feet of the Dead exhibition opens at Mission Gallery, come along to hear the artist Nigel Hurlstone discussing this unique body of work.
Nigel Hurlstone explores an enduring fascination with ‘dressing-up,’ a conjuring trick that allows a glimpse of other lives, from cricketer to curate. In a collection of self-portraits that figure the artist dressed in an array of outfits, Hurlstone reveals the potential of garments to oscillate between their practical, gendered, and fashionable territories into uncharted psychological, emotional and cinematic terrains; we see one man, but many people.
Nigel Hurlstone (b. 1970) studied for a BA in Embroidered Textiles at the former Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) where he was awarded a first-class honours degree. He then gained a MA (distinction) in textiles and was one of the first graduates to be an awarded a Ph.D with practice by MMU in 2000. He has worked simultaneously as a practitioner, writer and senior lecturer for the past thirty years and in 2014, established a studio in Ffynnongroyw, North Wales, where he now lives and works.
A Ruthin Craft Centre originated exhibition.
Exhibition image: The Wind from the Feet of the Dead at Ruthin Craft Centre, image by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
