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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
Circuit - An exhibition exploring the banal and everyday
The essence of Hutchinson’s research was concerned with the consideration of a ubiquitous and quotidian object – the sofa, as the capricious subject for sculpture, performance, printmaking, painting and performance with sound. The focus on a banal everyday object allowed free manipulation across various media, to create new meaning through process.
A 20cm sculpture/object was the end product of a research process, beginning with the downloading of 3D models of ‘Klippen’ sofas from the IKEA website, and their re-assembling through digital collaging. These were then outputted as a new 3D print (a fully formed 3D object made from ABS Plastic) in collaboration with Culture Lab, Newcastle University. The images were also rendered as ‘sofa-sized’ 2D laser prints. The work was shown in an exhibition at Unit 24 Gallery, London (21 April-26 May 2011). Some of the work was subsequently exhibited in the exhibition ‘To the Future’ at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland in 2012, alongside a configuration of actual sofas, and in the exhibition ‘Eye Hand Mind’ at India Habitat Centre, Delhi, (in 2013), focussing on computer manufactured digital art.
An online work/publication accompanied the exhibitions; 'C' is a book of drawings by Hutchinson, which is 138 pages, softback 8X5ins, B&W.
