“…and tales from outside the Dairy”, Gallery Thirty Three, 4/7/25 until 1/8/25 text outtake from a review By Laura Elliott published in Art Seen ODT on 24/8/25

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 …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.

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Conceived as a two-year project, ‘a gallery’ opened in February 2011 at 393 Princes Street, Dunedin and closed in September 2012. Strategically placed south of the center of town nestled between tattoo studios, sex shops and a needle exchange. What was integral in the selection of the gallery space was that it would be able to be viewed from the street through the street level floor to ceiling windows. This would allow the artists showing to be exposed not only to viewers visiting the gallery, but also those walking past, as a gallery was to represent artists that did not fit within the commercial gallery context or the so called experimental project space’s, this would be the best way to expose a particular group of artists selected by gallery curator/manager Jay Hutchinson, artists he respected and admired and felt were not being represented in the gallery scene at the time.

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