Hurwitz, in collaboration with is partner, Yifat Davidoff, produces work focuses on the aesthetics of art in the context of human perception. His early body of sculpture was discovered by Estelle Lovatt during 2011 in an article for
Art of England Magazine: "Thinning the divide gap between art and science, Hurwitz is cognisant of the two being holistically co-joined in the same way as we are naturally, comfortably split between our spiritual and operational self". Hurwitz began producing sculptures in 2008. In 2009, his first sculpture '
Yoda and the Anamorph' won the People's Choice Bentliff Prize of the
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery. Later in 2009 he won the Noble Sculpture Prize and was commissioned to install his first large scale work (a nude study of his father called 'Dietro di me') in the Italian village
Colletta di Castelbianco. In 2010, he was selected as a finalist for the 4th International
Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy. In January 2013, Hurwitz's anamorphic work was described by the art blogger
Christopher Jobson. In early 2013 Hurwitz was introduced to the
Savoy Hotel by London art agent Sally Vaughan. Hurwitz was commissioned to be
Artist in Residence at the hotel and produce a sculpture of the hotel's historically iconic
Mascot Kaspar the Cat. Hurwitz lived for several months in the hotel producing the sculpture. By late 2013, in a special edition of Art of England on portraiture, Hurwitz was cited as the No. 1 portrait artist in the UK. In January 2014 Hurwitz was voted No. 46 in the top 100 artists of 2013 by the American art site, Empty Kingdom. In the same month, Hurwitz's anamorphic work was blogged as "The best of 2013" by the American Art and Culture magazine,
Juxtapoz. In 2013 Hurwitz's work was also curated by
Science Gallery International for a touring group show entitled 'Illusion' curated by
Trinity College Dublin. The exhibition led to a 2014/2015 tour in the USA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Leipzig, Germany. In late 2014, he released a series of "nano sculptures" under the title of ″Trust″. This series of works captured the attentions of both the scientific and art community, being cited by among others,
Nature,
Scientific American,
Popular Science and
Phys.org. In 2015, Hurwitz was elected a member of the
Royal British Society of Sculptors. In a 2015 documentary by CNN International on Hurwitz's artwork,
BBC Radio 2 art critic Estelle Lovatt commented on Hurwitz's work: "If
Leonardo da Vinci were alive today, he would have been doing what Jonty is doing. He would have been using algorithms. No one else works like him today. His art is the mix between the emotional and the intelligent, and that's what gives it that spark." In 2016 the
Royal Photographic Society selected a
scanning electron microscope photograph by Hurwitz and Stefan Diller as one of the top 100 'Royal Society International Images for Science'.
Anamorphic sculpture Hurwitz has produced a body of work using both
oblique (perspective) and
catoptric (mirror)
anamorphosis. Hurwitz names
William Scrots,
Hans Holbein,
M. C. Escher and
Da Vinci as influences. In his online talks, Hurwitz explains that this is a function of processing power and that whilst painting is possible in a mirror, three dimensional anamorphosis could only have come into being with the advent of powerful computers. Each of his sculptures involves billions of calculations using an
algorithm derived from the mathematical constant
π. Hurwitz asserts that his art is "contemporary to the millisecond".
Kinetic Art curator and director of the London
Kinetica Museum, Dianne Harris, described Hurwitz's art as "the works of polymath Jonty Hurwitz are contemporary ''
trompe-l'œil'', at first glance appearing abstract, but in mirrored reflections, representational".
Nano sculpture In 2014, Hurwitz and Davidoff worked in the field of
Nanoart using
multiphoton lithography and
photogrammetry to create the world's smallest human portraits of his first love. The works of art were inspired by the nineteenth century marble sculpture of Cupid and Psyche by
Antonio Canova. Smaller details of the works are at approximately the 300
nanometer scale, similar to the
wavelengths of visible light and hence visualised by a
scanning electron microscope. To create these works Hurwitz collaborated with a team of over 20 people, including Stephan Hengsbach of the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Yehiam Prior of the
Weizmann Institute of Science. In February 2015, Hurwitz's sculpture "Trust" was awarded the world record for the "Smallest sculpture of a human" by the
Guinness Book of Records. ==Technology==