Alicia Hurrell creates sculpture and installation where ornament is subject. The artist explores styles of ornament and their potential for meaning. In her work, objects or forms move from a primarily functional or decorative role, to that of fine art.

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The artist constructs her work from an array of both traditional and contemporary mediums, such as wood, metal, plaster, resin and plastic. Much of her work is first modelled in clay. Sometimes a process of moulding and casting takes place to create powerful rhythms of form and colour. At other times the finished piece is directly modelled in the material before being fired and painted, therefore is completely unique. She has cut and manipulated acrylic to mimic cultural motifs and created fabrications using found object, textiles and accessories.

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She seeks to enhance the symbolic value of objects through her creations of form and style sometimes injected with colour. The artist wishes to signify possibilities for ornamental form as more than mere decoration and as new expression of connections between past and present.