Hurley Talks

Gavin Hurley is a long time favourite here at Crane Brothers with his work on display in all of our stores and showrooms.

His process is fascinating and now you can listen to him discuss it in an Artist's Talk.

He will speak about work from his recent Cook Voyages series exhibited earlier in 2015 at the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington as part of Tranquility Disturb'd curated by Richard Wolfe. For this series he chose previously overlooked subjects from the voyages - the servant boys who sailed on Cook's Endeavour.

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