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.
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