a gallery presents

Hutch and A Gallery Presents a Filth_4U  and General Editions publication launch of  “The Graffiti Village Omnibus” a limited edition publication along side a deluxe edition project, featuring an original art work by Joel Rickerby and Jay Hutchinson at Hutch Gallery, 21 Moray place, Dunedin. Saturday 15th November 2025 2pm till 5pm with guest DJs

Graffiti Village was Aotearoa’s first independent graffiti publication. In the mid 1990s an artist known as Scream decided to self produce a small folded A4 page that featured photographs of graffiti that he had either taken himself or collected from other artists. These photos were either given to him by hand or printed, put in an envelope and posted through the mail as the publication predated the popular use of email. The photos were arranged on both sides of a single sheet of paper and cello-taped down with names of the contributing artists scribbled in the limited space around them. The page  was then photocopied on someone’s mums work copier…less than 100 copies of the first issue were ever made making them incredibly rare. Over the course of its lifetime the publication grew to an 8 page zine (using two folded A4 pages staples together) a total of five issues were produced before 2000.

Very few copies remain of the publication, and only one known complete set. The copies reproduced here are from the personal archive of Joel Rickerby and avid collector of sub cultural paraphernalia who in discussion with Scream have decided to release all five issues reprinted and bound together as a The Graffiti Village Omnibus produced by General Editions. 

In addition to the Graffiti Village Omnibus, a deluxe edition has also been created with a gallery presents and  Filth_4U, a limited edition of 10 works in collaborative project between artists Jay Hutchinson and Joel Rickerby. Hutchinson produced a series a hand stitched tags on cotton drill with designs lifted from the pages of Graffiti Village. These have then been framed in hand painted frames by Joel Rickerby. Each work is then presented in an archival box also containing detailed facsimiles of the original copies as well as a copy of the Graffiti Village omnibus all produced by General Editions Studio.

 …while multidisciplinary artist Jay Hutchinson demonstrates that — if we’re truly looking — art and beauty can be found in even the most mundane surroundings. After collecting discarded food wrappers and pavement rubbish, Hutchinson photographs and studies them with the care and interest of a palaeontologist uncovering a fossil, before recreating them as striking textile art. Using cotton drill to simulate crinkled paper bags, crumpled milkshake cups and empty matchboxes, he embroiders labels and slogans, with incredible attention to detail and a level of intricacy in the thousands of tiny stitches that elevates each piece to an artistic treasure.

This Exhibition brings together a recent sculptural work ‘Eight Steps to perfection’ that first exhibited 2020 at Ramp gallery and more recently in the exhibition, ‘Never Be Seen’ at Aratoi Museum 2024. This two piece sculptural work is shown along a series of nine new works titled, ‘Tales from outside the Dairy’, these works are based on objects found on footpaths, carparks in and around connivence stores, two fours, Fish and Chip Shops and local Dairy’s. These discarded objects are photographed, digitally printed on fabric, hand stitched then crumpled and stitched into frames. Whereas recent projects have followed a psychogeographical model, exploring a particular physical environment, this project pulls objects from archives of objects (trash and litter) that I literally collect, archive and store in a methodological system based on those used by museums…

The exhibition ‘Second Chance’ opening at 2pm on the 5th of April as part of ID Fashion Week in Dunedin. The exhibition brings together three Dunedin artists that work with material, ideas and concepts around waste, particularly textile waste.

Meg Gallagher uses off cuts leftover from clothing production runs that would normally be destined for landfills, stitching these pieces together into canvases Gallagher then applies a mixture of natural pigments, dye and bleach creating beautiful landscapes. 

 Victoria McIntosh stitches together  contemporary jewellery, sculpture and assemblage. A collector by nature, she is drawn to found objects that she discovers in a variety of second-hand shops, used fabric and cast away object that for McIntosh carry a sense of history, whether real or imagined.

 Jay Hutchinson makes textile copies  discarded objects that he finds on his daily commute. Through a process of photographing the object and printing it onto scrap fabric, each piece hand stitched where Hutchinson invests hundreds of hours into the forgotten and thrown away, making the unseen seen.  

New gallery space opening early May 2025. Originally was going to be under the “a gallery presents” umbrella. As the concept evolved the space shifted becoming a new and exciting project as a collaboration with my wife Julia. Julia will co-direct with me and manage the day to day operations. Julia comes from an industrial design background with a passion for contemporary art with years of experience in high end retail. We are currently working together to physically bring the leased space at 21 moray place Dunedin, previously used as a music venue, up to the highest standard possible. We have an exciting list of artists that we look forward to working with, and introducing to Dunedin. New website hutchgallery.co.nz coming soon

“Hutch” gallery is an upcoming contemporary art space set to open on Moray Place in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. The gallery will showcase and represent a wide range of artists from across the country… watch this space

Jay Hutchinson’s latest exhibition at Olga Gallery continues the artist’s interest in psychogeography, the unearthing of narratives about the social life of a site through its often overlooked features.

Hutchinson has long used the symbolism of rubbish and detritus as an embodiment of the social history of a particular area. The artist embellishes found discarded objects with embroidery, raising the items from trash to a more artistic status. Using the titular six beer cans, Hutchison psychologically maps the West Harbour area of Dunedin, creating a series of small works from simple pieces of industrial archaeology.

Alongside these pieces are two much larger works, both of which are closer to installation than simple mixed-media works on canvas. The newer of these is Holiday, which uses an embroidered empty cigarette packet on a stack of pavers which were taken up from George St during the central city’s recent re-landscaping. The use of these bricks freezes the item at a distinct moment in time, representing central Dunedin at a specific point in its history.

The largest work on display is the only piece not created specifically for this exhibition. Based on a damaged fence seen in a Nelson alleyway, Untitled Nelson Landscape May 2019 painstakingly recreates the fence dent by dent using embroidered cotton sheets over a timber frame.