A Gallery Presents a General Edition publication ‘Landfill’ using a 1999 copy of the Otago University Arts Journal ‘Landfall’ as a template. Dunedin artist Jay Hutchinson worked with designer Gilbert May to design and produce this limited edition publication. Hutchinson’s art practice involves photographing and collecting trash from the street, finding compositions in the discarded, …
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Brains with faces, flawed families, smoking dogs, self-portraits, and Liz (Queen Elizabeth II), the Rayner Brothers are back for another outing at Olga with their slightly outre ceramics. This time the “Circus” features Otepoti Dunedin-based artist Jay Hutchinson’s well-known embroidered works of found rubbish (screen-printed on to fabric and embroidered). With more than a nod …
Three new works based on trash/found objects from the public car park in front of Toitu, Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. Currently showing with the Rayner Brothers at Olga Gallery Dunedin from 11/11/22 All works currently available from Olga Gallery https://www.olgaolgaolga.co.nz/
A Jellytip wrapper is a find for Jay Hutchinson. For the artist trash is fine art. He began to notice discarded stuff, and was “drawn to the colour and the nostalgic relationship I have with the products.” ‘Embroiderer/graffiti artist Hutchinson wants his work to encourage other people to pay more more attention to their environment. …
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A new limited edition of nine, hand stitched ‘blue Zig-Zag paper packets’ is currently on show and available to purchase from Fiksate Gallery in Christchurch. Based on one of the most littered object found in the Dunedin CBD the iconic blue Zig-zag paper packet, in various states of distress and damage. Each work is a …
SOLD OUT “Break Glass, hand embroidery on cotton drill, framed in a red box frame 135mm x 135mm” limited edition of three, signed and numbered. Enhances any work space, doorway or workshop. Available from agalleypresents@gmail.com #handembroidery #alarm #breakglass
One of the potential aims of art is to make people look again at things that they would normally disregard — to view things in a new, unexpected light — and in doing so to see them as if for the first time. This is a major feature of the fabric and installation art of …
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