Recent article in Art Zone issue 92 Spring 2022 by Hannah Mahon
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 one off, signed and numbered on the reverse. The works are hand-stitched on digitally printed cotton drill, framed using archival materials, and UV70 glass. Contact the gallery through their website for more information http://www.Fiksate.com
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
“8 steps to perfection”, new work in the group exhibition “It’s a Stitch Up!”, Ramp Gallery, 111 Collingwood street, Hamilton Opening 4/3/22
“b-sides, rarities and treasures from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery car park”, Olga, Dunedin. Exhibition runs from the 25/2/22 until 18/3/22 Review By James Dignan published in the ODT 3/3/22
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 Jay Hutchinson.
Hutchinson’s work takes the throwaway, literally, and raises it to a level where it is no longer worthless. Using as his subject discarded scraps and rubbish found on his daily journeys, he reclaims the items by recreating them and reinventing them as intricate and attractive embroidered pieces. This allows us to appreciate that even the detritus of everyday life can have its own surprising and subversive beauty.
Many of Hutchinson’s pieces are hand-embroidered in sewing silk on cotton drill cloth. Other, more massive, installations include urban materials such as tarmac slabs, steel and concrete. Hutchinson’s works subvert the norm, not by simply making high art from low art, but by making high art from scrap. While this makes us reappraise the everyday, it also posits the thought that rubbish, in all its accumulated glory, will become the epitaph of this civilisation, a Rosetta Stone or Bayeux Tapestry from which our history will be deciphered.
New work from the series, “Treasures from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery car park” for an exhibition at Olga February 2022
Newport/White Castle
The last two works from the series ‘Far from home/ American trash’ will be available to purchase from the @masterworksgallerynz Summer exhibition ‘Raumati/Summer Salon’ from tomorrow…based on found object/trash in New York City 2019, pre pandemic. Both works hand-embroidery on digitally printed fabric, framed with Museum Glass in box frames 330 x 330mm #handembroidery #trash #rubish #litter #masterworkgallery #handstitched #textileart #newport #whitecastle #jayhutchinson
Yellow Zig Zag
SOLD OUT New work available exclusively through agallerypresents.com based on the iconic yellow Zig Zag cigarette paper packet, this limited edition of 6 hand stitched works gets smaller with each interpretation as a different filter is cut from the card.
Each work is then presented in a black box frame 250 x 250mm
Each work is signed and numbered on the reverse
contact agallerypresents@gmail.com for more information
Trashed on the way to work
New work for an upcoming exhibition late in August ‘Button up’ at Masterwork Gallery in Auckland
Screwed up Fruit Burst wrapper and three circular pieces of concrete
Hand-embroidery on digitally printed cotton drill with cast concrete
Dimensions variable
Screwed up Minties wrapper with three pieces of circular concrete
Hand-embroidery on digitally printed cotton drill with cast concrete
Dimensions variable
a gallery presents 