GRAFFITI VILLAGE OMNIBUS PUBLICATION LAUNCH 2pm 15/11/25

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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.

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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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