Watch this film featuring Madeline Thornalley, a.k.a. Hurtence talking about her exhibition which took place in June here at SVA.
Film by Eoghan McDonaugh. Camera assistant : Rosie Kear
Music: Birthday Suite by The Amb Works Vol.2
Creative stylists: moina moin and Milligan Beaumont
Models: Madeline Thornalley aka Hurtence Frankie Smash moina moin Milligan Beaumont
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In Felt Nice, Madeline Thornalley, a.k.a. Hurtence, presents a series of felted and painted pieces. Working predominantly as a milliner, Thornalley conceives of her hats as “mental tuning devices:” objects that attune the wearer to specific frequencies, opening them up or closing them off to their surroundings. The pieces that make up Felt Nice literalise this principle, picturing landscapes and sensorial scenes that gesture toward the fantasies, memories, and sensations of an undetermined wearer. A world-making gesture, then, in which the wearing of a hat offers the possibility of inhabiting a world that is not quite here.
Hurtence is mental tuning devices, one off pieces of headgear and appendages that can channel a state of mind. Started in 2017, always from second hand materials and all hand stitched. Hoping that up-cycling can become an invisible feature and something that is second nature rather than a remarkable thing. There’s also something about appendages that build up to create a bigger picture, smaller details that are more meaningful than grand gestures. Its got to be for laughing or for crying or just done with feeling.
