Looking to his immediate environment while following a psychogeographical model, Jay Hutchinson’s new exhibition two cups and a Jimmy’s mince and cheese pie wrapper explores the familiar streets of Ōtepoti Dunedin, and in particular, the central industrial area of the Otago Habour.
Past Exhibition
Hātarei 21 Āperira -
Hātarei 12 Mei
Saturday 21 April -
Saturday 12 May
2018
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, detail, 2018.
Through his long-standing interest in urban culture and his chosen medium of needle-work, as is seen in his 2006 exhibition, from textile to concrete at Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Hutchinson employs his immediate geography as a way of understanding it’s contexts and histories and the effect of such understandings on the individual.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, pie wrapper detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, Wendy's cup, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, Wendy's cup detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, McDonald's cup, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, McDonald's cup detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, install back to front, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, pie wrapper detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, Wendy's cup, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, installation view, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, Wendy's cup detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, McDonald's cup, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, McDonald's cup detail, 2018.
Image: Jay Hutchinson, two cups and a Jimmy's mince and cheese pie wrapper, install back to front, 2018.
Jay Hutchinson
Jay Hutchinson is a Ōtepoti Dunedin-based artist with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art (2008). He has exhibited through Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and China. Recent exhibitions include Loosely based on a series of events that never actually happened including a conversation and an argument with my sister circa 1988, Eskdale Gallery, 2018; Across from the court, on the way to the mall, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017; Turn left at the end of the drive, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2016; On The Way To Work, Olga, 2019; the archaeology of the discarded, forgotten and thrown away, The Suter Art Gallery, 2019.