Selby Hurst
Selby Hurst Inglefield (b.1997) is from the seaside town, Brighton. In 2015, she moved to London to start her Foundation Diploma in Fine Art at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London. After finishing her foundation, Selby continued to study BA Fine Art at Central St Martins from 2016-2019. After being awarded their Graduate Show Prize, she has shown twice with The Other Art Fair in 2019. In 2020, Selby had her first solo show with Peak Gallery and recently has been requested to show two pieces in Soho House, Shoreditch and Brighton.
Selby uses the technique of rug punching to create her textile works. This medium allows her to create a physical sense of comfort through the soft textures and the relaxing time consuming nature of the process. Rug punching also allows Selby to reflect on her practice’s wider themes of the domestic space, home and the mundane.
There is a deep sense of sentimentality embedded throughout Selby’s practice, her mum is also a textiles artist and memories of her upbringing, and her home of Brighton, create feelings of nostalgia within each piece. Brighton often forms the settings of her portraits, featuring landscapes inspired by the body of the sea and recognisable white cliffs of the coast.
Selby’s practice is also full of stories, the artworks often starting from writing based on her own life and past. She then uses the pieces as a way of intimately reflecting on these experiences, resulting in the contrast of dream-like imagery alongside the use of self portraiture. Although these stories are important to the beginnings of an artwork, she likes that they stay simply part of the process, only showing the viewer snippets of the stories in the titles of her works.
Exhibitions to date
SOLO SHOWS
2020
Sep- Back looking through the glass, Peak London
GROUP SHOWS
2022
Anthropomorphus, Marie Jose Gallery, London
The Cats meow, Pussy Galore, Alveston Fine art, London, May Emergence, The Room London, London
What’s your dream?, Galerie Zberro, Paris
Into the fire, Grove Collective
Winter exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2021
Clovermill Open Call, Wilder Gallery, London
Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery, London
The Vlieseline Award, Knitting & stitching show, London
Winter exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Birthday Party, The Artists Contemporary, London
2020
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
The ING Discerning Eye
With Love, Paint Works
SHOW- OFF, Menier Gallery, London
2019
Young Contemporaries exhibition, Aubergine Art Gallery, London
The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills Offices, London, Oct The Clyde and Co Awards, Clyde & Co offices, London
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London
Murmurations, Candid Arts Trust, London
The Other Art Fair, Granary Square, London
Personal Narratives, Crypt Gallery, London
Degree Show One, Central St Martins, London
Open Studios, Central St Martins, London
2018
Cell 21, Old Deptford Police Station, London Open studios, Central St Martins, London
2017
Open studios, Central St Martins, London
After the Watershed, Old Deptford Police Station, London
2016
Foundation Show, Central St Martins, London UAL x INDO EXHIBITION, London
AWARDS, SHORTLISTS AND PRIZES
Shortlisted – The Vlieseline Fine Art Prize, 2020
Shortlisted - The Clyde and Co Awards, Clyde & Co offices, London, Oct 2019 Shortlisted - The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills Offices, London, Oct 2019
The Graduate Art prize, The Other Art Fair, London, 2019 RA A-level Summer exhibition, 2015