Black Bird

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Black Bird: Lonnie Hutchinson 1997-2013: A Survey at the Gus Fisher Gallery. The publication brings together diverse works from public and private collections throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, this publication accompanies an exhibition which is the first survey of 16 years of Lonnie Hutchinson’s rich and varied practice. Female subjectivity and feminist narratives inspire her unique approach to art making. Hutchinson’s Māori (Ngai Tahu) and Samoan heritage inform her interest in pattern, the play of light and shadow as well as the navigation between space and time. - Excerpt from foreword by Linda Tyler, 2015.

Intrinsic to each series within my art practice, I honour tribal whakapapa or genealogy. In doing so, I move freely between the genealogy of past, present and future to produce works that are linked to memories of recent and ancient past, that are intangible and tangible…I make works that talk about spaces in-between, those spiritual spaces. Lonnie Hutchinson