Eight new hand stitched works from the series ‘Treasures from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery car park’ have been shipped up to Auckland to show with Masterworks Gallery for the 2023 Aotearoa Art Fair. Along with the framed stitched works Masterworks also wanted to show the photographs of the found objects (trash) the embroidery’s are …
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Copies of LANDFILL are available now…email agallerypresents@gmail.com to secure a copy of this limited publication before they run out
LANDFILL Book Launch 2pm 11/02/23 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery…thanks for coming. Don’t forget to litter
Four Posters/ Four Bins/ One Landfill
LANDFILL publication launch 2pm 11/2/23 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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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“Rayner Brothers Circus and special guest Jay Hutchinson” exhibition at Olga reviewed by Robyn Maree Pickens in the ODT 17/11/22
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 …
Between the tracks and a train
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/
Recent article in Art Zone issue 92 Spring 2022 by Hannah Mahon
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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blue zig-zag paper packet
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 …
Break Glass
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
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