Jay Hutchinson
Blind Trash
Justin Spiers
a view for dying
Opening Friday October 27
5PM
Jay Hutchinson
Jay Hutchinson is a Dunedin based artist who works with textiles. His practice follows a pychogeographical model where he recreates found structures and objects with fabric and thread. His work explores urban erosion and the waste and decay of capitalism.
Hutchinson inflects his needlework with a ‘street’ sensibility that continually
challenges the high art/mass culture divide.
The exhibition Blind Trash features a limited edition of nine deluxe copies of Jay Hutchinson’s publication LANDFILL each sealed in a black plastic rubbish bag with a found piece of trash. Each piece of trash has a hand stitched version framed on the gallery wall. Purchase a book to see which embroidered and framed piece of trash is now yours!
Jay Hutchinson is a Dunedin based artist who works with textiles. His practice follows a pychogeographical model where he recreates found structures and objects with fabric and thread. His work explores urban erosion and the waste and decay of capitalism.
Hutchinson inflects his needlework with a ‘street’ sensibility that continually
challenges the high art/mass culture divide.
The exhibition Blind Trash features a limited edition of nine deluxe copies of Jay Hutchinson’s publication LANDFILL each sealed in a black plastic rubbish bag with a found piece of trash. Each piece of trash has a hand stitched version framed on the gallery wall. Purchase a book to see which embroidered and framed piece of trash is now yours!
Justin Spiers
Justin Spiers’ recent series of photographs documents the various elements that occupy the summit of a well-known city landmark, Lawyers Head | Te Ika a paraheke. The head juts into the ocean at the end of Saint Kilda’s Beach, offering panoramic views of Dunedin City and the Otago coastline from a scenic lookout. Paradoxically, it also has a grim history as a suicide spot. Spiers’ series highlights the subtle marks of this history in the carpark that occupies the summit of the head.
The carefully composed geometry of each image, which minimizes the scenic elements that make the spot so notable, discourages sentimentality while encouraging us to reflect on the nature and history of this place. As such the series comments on how we choose what we wish to see and remember––how we invest in place and space as we pursue our daily lives.
Justin Spiers’ recent series of photographs documents the various elements that occupy the summit of a well-known city landmark, Lawyers Head | Te Ika a paraheke. The head juts into the ocean at the end of Saint Kilda’s Beach, offering panoramic views of Dunedin City and the Otago coastline from a scenic lookout. Paradoxically, it also has a grim history as a suicide spot. Spiers’ series highlights the subtle marks of this history in the carpark that occupies the summit of the head.
The carefully composed geometry of each image, which minimizes the scenic elements that make the spot so notable, discourages sentimentality while encouraging us to reflect on the nature and history of this place. As such the series comments on how we choose what we wish to see and remember––how we invest in place and space as we pursue our daily lives.