Selected works

In transition, 2026

Pressed, 2026
Wall hanging in wool, cotton, hessian.
Hand sewn and tufted with tufting machine.
82cm x 103cm
Currently on show at OpenBach Gallery, Les Variations Textiles, Fontenay-sous-bois

Detail of Pressed, 2026
Wall hanging in wool, cotton, hessian.
Hand sewn and tufted with tufting machine.
82cm x 103cm
Currently on show at OpenBach Gallery, Les Variations Textiles, Fontenay-sous-bois

in-Bed, 2025
Wall hanging in wool, cotton, hessian.
Hand sewn and tufted with tufting machine.
144cm x 152cm
Currently on show at OpenBach Gallery, Les Variations Textiles, Fontenay-sous-bois

in-Bed, 2025
Wall hanging in wool, cotton, hessian.
Hand sewn and tufted with tufting machine.
144cm x 152cm
Currently on show at OpenBach Gallery, Les Variations Textiles, Fontenay-sous-bois

Through layered textile techniques, colour, relief, and depth appear, echoing the stripping back of rock and the traces time leaves on a surface. Working with wool, a seemingly chaotic material, yet like a hive, geometric down to a cellular level, connects Hurley-Walker to a living material that responds differently to light when cut, knotted, or sewn.

The slow process of making is essential to the form the piece takes, highlighting that craft is both a physical and emotional practice. Playing with scale, viewers feel intimacy with it’s texture; from afar, a human form emerges, embodying presence, memory, and transformation.

Drawn beginnings of in-Bed, 2025

Detail of in-Bed, 2025

Findings, 2025
Framed wall piece in wool, cotton.
Hand sewn and tufted with tufting machine.
50cm x 40cm

Detail of Findings, 2025

Monoprint beginnings of Pressed, 2026

Detail of Pressed, 2026

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Sophie Louise Hurley-Walker

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