Encounters

Exhibitions
Book and Sons, Tokyo 09,11,24 – 03,12,24
Publication by acb-press 2024,

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Encounters is a body of work inspired by Historic Japanese Photographer Yukio Tabuchi and his pursuit of understanding the natural environment. Hutchinson's approach began with capturing the landscape's seasonal transformations, the neighbouring lands of the 2019 Australian bushfires. In the early phases of this two-year journey, his trajectory quickly changed. In fieldwork, reading the landscape through a euro-centric seasonal calendar proved ineffective, and in this learning process, the work became self-reflective.

Weather conditions, previously assumed, shifted without notice, and the changing transformation presented a unique environment of uncertainty and fragility. Each work presented in exhibition and publication form documents Hutchinson's singular encounters with the new landscape and, as a whole, his journey of discovery.

The Exhibition and publication design was inspired by Kogei, Craft 73 edition 1937, published by Japan Folk Art Association.

Polar convergence/An error has occurred

Gippsland Art Gallery 03 06 23 - 20 08 23
Centre for Contemporary Photography 24 06 19 - 20 08 19
Nishi Galley 07 06 19 - 11 08 19

Gippsland Art Gallery, Artist talk 03 06 23
Wedge Performing Arts Centre, Artist talk 06 06 23
CCP, Artist talk 24 08 19
Nishi Gallery, Panel discussion 08 06 19

Published by Perimeter Editions 2018
Designed by Daly Lyon
Edition of 600
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An error has occurred by Melbourne-based photographer Rohan Hutchinson is a series of large-format photographs that Hutchinson took during an expedition to the Arctic in early 2017. The focus of the expedition was to record and document the beauty, immensity and diversity of the Arctic landscape in this particular moment. Upon returning to Australia, Hutchinson set about reinterpreting and expanding the scope of the resulting photographs in a bid to respond to the impact of climate change on the Arctic region and address our responsibilities not just Australians, but as global citizens.

'At this particular moment’ by Dan Rule. First published in An error has occurred [Perimeter Editions, 2017].

Building for a Typhoon

Publication by acb press 2023
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Building for a Typhoon is the sequel to Rohan Hutchinson's celebrated and out-of-print first publication, 'A brief stroll whilst inspecting architecture.' The Photographic works, created with support by iconic European camera company Arca Swiss, were captured before and after a typhoon that shut Tokyo down in 2019. They document architectural structures and their standing amidst weather variance.

The interest in the body of work lies in how a city's architectural infrastructure presents cultural, economic, and geographic contrasts. The publication's design embraces these contrasts, shifting the historic and modern spaces into an engaging contempoprary book setting that focuses on the layering of space and materials within a metropolis and its representation in publication format.
 

Post Hiroshige

Publication self-published
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Post Hiroshige is a body of work that continues Hutchinson's interest in Japanese Architecture and the representation of space in artwork and publication form.

The body of work draws inspiration from Historic Japanese Ukiyo Artist Hiroshige Utagawa. The interest lies in how Hiroshige broke away from the traditional mathematical formulas of the time and, in turn, created a new way of seeing the natural and built landscape.

Colour used within the publication and artworks is the pigment data from Hiroshige Utagawa’s work  “Kinryuzan Temple Akasaka c 1830” (Provided by The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia).

Post Hiroshige consists of a series of artworks, a set of three hand-made concertina books, a limited edition trade publication, and a series of three pop-up cards made in collaboration with Paris-based paper artist Nicolas Codron.

Achitecture for the Animals

Neo space 10, 11, 2018 - 20, 11, 2018

Self Published Artist book  
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Untitled works, 2018
Pigment prints on fibre rag 310gsm paper. 28 x 22cm, translucent frames.

Editions of 3 + 1 AP

Architecture for the Animals is the immersive body of work by Melbourne based Photographer Rohan Hutchinson. The series is a departure point from his previous large-scale works and explores the intimate relationships between space and publication design, taking his interest in photo-book making into another realm, within the gallery.

Throughout the exhibition the viewer is presented with a variety of visual representations, these range from framed photographs that document Patterns and layering in Ecology and Geology, Scientific plates that capture Animal habitats within the South Thailand Sea and a series of publication layouts that pay homage to early 1970s Japanese photo book design.

Works are created to either hang or rest on a shelf as if a book. An unbound publication as created, where owners can explore all the variance in layout possibilities.