Hutch Gallery

Hutch Gallery “Hutch” gallery is an contemporary art space located at 21 Moray Place in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.

The gallery showcases and represents a wide range of artists from across the country

It’s the last day to see Sharon’s exhibition “Strange Shores”. Pop in and see Jay! The door is open and it’s a beautiful...
05/09/2026

It’s the last day to see Sharon’s exhibition “Strange Shores”. Pop in and see Jay! The door is open and it’s a beautiful sunny Ōtepoti day.

Sharon Singer

Please join us on Friday, September 11 at 5pm for the opening of “I ate the apple, but It was not enough”, Charlotte Rob...
04/09/2026

Please join us on Friday, September 11 at 5pm for the opening of “I ate the apple, but It was not enough”, Charlotte Robertson’s first solo exhibition with Hutch

In her latest exhibition, Ōtepoti Dunedin artist Charlotte Robertson explores personal mythology, questions the meaning of the Garden of Eden in contemporary life and alchemises collective shadow into a source code for spiritual awakening and evolution of consciousness.

Through her process of divining imagery and following bread crumb trails through meditation and shamanic journeying, Robertson weaves a world in which she and others can belong, and writes a playbook on how to make meaning of life.

The apple from the Garden of Eden has been eaten and found to not satiate the artist’s hunger, nor answer questions about gender roles, aging, desirability and modern life. In this body of work the paintings become a vehicle to distill the darkness of the human psyche into a pearl of wisdom and hope, to be held tenderly in the viewer’s palm.

Taking cues from YouTube thirst trap videos, traditional American folk art tapestry, medieval alchemy texts and her animist worldview, Robertson has developed a unique visual language full of symbolism, dark humour and multilayered meaning.

Featured work: ‘Offering to the Gods’, Oil on plywood, 705mmW x 665mmH x 35mmD, framed with Rimu, 2026

“I have built a tower of the dark shadow of our culture, reaching up to offer sustenance to The Gods of our time; the cult of celebrity, p**n and dominating patriarchal political figures. This is a tower built off of women’s bodies; their body parts have built a culture, have birthed a world into existence. They hold up the supreme offering; the pig’s mouth holds the apple within it, a nod to the Garden of Eden and original sin.

But all is not lost! At the last minute the serpents have entered the frame, our supplication is answered in the form of a starburst held tenderly in each of their mouths. We must hold on to hope and chart a course through the dark night by the sparkling light of the stars.”

Charlotte Robertson

Last days to experience Sharon Singer’s Strange Shores!I’ve absolutely adored coming into the gallery and spending time ...
03/09/2026

Last days to experience Sharon Singer’s Strange Shores!

I’ve absolutely adored coming into the gallery and spending time with this beautiful body of work over the past month.

If you haven’t made it in yet or you’d like one last look 👀 make sure to pop in over the next three days and experience Strange Shores for yourself.

I’ll be in the gallery from 11am–3pm this Saturday, 5 September, for the final day. Nau mai, haere mai! Come in, spend some time with the mahi, and say hello.

Ngā mihi nui to everyone who has visited and supported the exhibition over the past month. 💛

Featured works (from left to right)

‘If I Drift Long Enough I’ll be Home’, Acrylic on canvas 30.48 x 25cm, 2026

‘Safe Havens and Hostile Places’, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60.96 x 50cm, 2026

‘Weaker than Dreams’ Acrylic and oil on canvas 60.96 x 50cm, 2026

All work is available to view and purchase via our website (link in bio)

Sharon Singer

Sharon Singer’s “Corp de Ballet”, Acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, 50 x 61cm, 2026You can view this work and others on...
31/08/2026

Sharon Singer’s “Corp de Ballet”, Acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, 50 x 61cm, 2026

You can view this work and others on our website (link in bio), I’m back in the gallery Wednesday at 10am however a reminder that I can also open by appointment 🦢

It’s the last week to see “Strange Shores” so if you are local make sure to pop in! (last day Saturday 05th)

Sharon Singer

Sharon Singers “Never” Acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, 30.48 x 30.46cm, 2026In response to Sharon’s work, independent...
27/08/2026

Sharon Singers “Never” Acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, 30.48 x 30.46cm, 2026

In response to Sharon’s work, independent art and cultural historian, critic, culture journalist and translator Andrew Paul Wood has written;

“What emerges across these works is a kind of ecological hauntology that acts as a catalyst opening up the viewer’s imaginative space. The present is stalked by futures we fear and futures we desire, by the residues of past decisions and the spectres of choices not yet made. Singer’s paintings create a stage for this psychodrama and invite her audience to inhabit it. In that sense they are both invitation and danger. Rarely does the quirkiness or quaintness offer comfort – it is all too eerie, too unheimlich for that – but they do let us see the high strangeness and absurdity of the world we have made and the one it will become.

Singer’s work reminds us that hope is not the opposite of despair. Hope is what remains when despair has been fully acknowledged. Hope is the ember that refuses to go out, even in the darkest, most absurd, most surreal of times.”

The full essay can be read on our website (link in bio)

A little reminder that alongside the incredible exhibition currently on show, we also have a beautiful backspace / stock...
27/08/2026

A little reminder that alongside the incredible exhibition currently on show, we also have a beautiful backspace / stockroom / office space for you to come and spend some time in.

The gallery is warm, Mazagran coffee is just across the road, you can pick up a stunning bunch of blooms from Estelle Flowers, find the perfect gift at Vull Design or Indigo Room: an eclecticism, discover designer clothing at JANE and 💜 Revamped ResaleJANEatch 💜 Revamped Resale💜lto Cinemas Dunedin, orRialto Cinemas Dunedinredible art (or get something framed) at OLGA Dunedin.

How lucky aOLGA Dunedinpart of such a vibrant little corner of Moray Place? He tino waimarie tātou! ❤️

Support local! Kia ora koutou!

To those of you that missed out on one of Sharon’s small seascapes… We have had two stormy scenes dropped off to the gal...
25/08/2026

To those of you that missed out on one of Sharon’s small seascapes… We have had two stormy scenes dropped off to the gallery (and what a fitting day in Ōtepoti to view them) ⛈️… Run… don’t walk 💀

I’ll be in the gallery until 4pm today. These works have been added to the online catalogue on the website (link in bio). Any questions sing out!

‘Realms Forgotten’ (top) Acrylic on canvas, 30.48 x 25cm, 2026

‘Card Declined’ (bottom) Acrylic on canvas, 30.48 x 25cm, 2026

A trio of favourites hanging at the rear of the gallery… Sharon Singer’s “Strange Shores” is exhibiting until Saturday 0...
23/08/2026

A trio of favourites hanging at the rear of the gallery… Sharon Singer’s “Strange Shores” is exhibiting until Saturday 05th of September. You can now view the complete catalogue online (link in bio). 🌈 💀

‘Hiss’, Acrylic, graphite and oil on canvas 50 x 60.96cm, 2026

‘Player 1’, Acrylic on canvas 30.48 x 25cm, 2026

‘Sunken Shores’, Acrylic on canvas, 30.48 x
25cm, 2026

A review of Sharon Singer’s “Strange Shores” by James Dignan for “Art Seen” in the otagodailytimes today There is an unn...
19/08/2026

A review of Sharon Singer’s “Strange Shores” by James Dignan for “Art Seen” in the otagodailytimes today

There is an unnerving gothic undercurrent in much of the art of Sharon Singer.

Although many of the artist’s mixed media images are open to interpretation and reinterpretation, there is a pervasive influence of the more dystopian side of modern society lurking beneath the surface of many of the artist’s paintings. This is not darkness for the sake of darkness, nor is it a headlong dive into despair.

These are works that suggest that change is often just a protest away, but their oracular messages are couched in ambiguity such that viewers must draw their own conclusions.

On the surface, there is an unnatural calm to many of the images. The still seas are dark, the trees and animals are at peace but glowing in unfamiliar colours. The peaceful nature lures us in, which is the artist’s intention. For this is not a world in balance. Animals and people bathe in the warm coolant water from a nuclear reactor in The Last Resort.

The sea burns in Collector of Warm Shadows. And the Snake Island images are an allegory of that most notorious of recent news islands, that belonging to Jeffrey Epstein. Singer depicts a planet haunted by our sins, but one capable of redemption.

Featured work: ‘Collectors of Warm Shadows’, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm, 2026

In response to Sharon’s work, independent art and cultural historian, critic, culture journalist and translator Andrew P...
19/08/2026

In response to Sharon’s work, independent art and cultural historian, critic, culture journalist and translator Andrew Paul Wood has written;

“Sharon Singer paints as if the world were already a Cthulucene ruin and yet still capable of astonishment. She favours the landscape as fundamental stratum of her paintings, frequently flat and alluding to infinite horizons – aquatic, grassy plains, steppe. Is it a past we have forced ourselves to forget or a future that has not quite happened?

These landscapes are the domain of a diverse cast of surreal fairytale archetypes and folkloreish characters who passively observe the Ballardian invasion and transformation of their world. The pastorals of Andrew Wyeth and Grahame Sydney on an acid trip.

These invaders are often abstract blobs and growths, whose purpose seems to be to remind us that this is a painting rather than a fever dream, analogous to similar interventions in theotherwise figurative paintings of Sigmar Polke.”

- The full essay will be available to read on our website this afternoon.

Featured work: ‘Weaker than Dreams’, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60.96 x 50cm, 2026

Sharon Singer

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21 Moray Place
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Wednesday 10am - 4:30pm
Thursday 10am - 4:30pm
Friday 10am - 4:30pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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