Hutchinson's research-driven practice prompts site-specific investigations into remote locations and, in return, presents the viewer with notions of global connectivity. It is within these intrepid expeditions that the artist's understanding of how the world is changing is centralised.
This new project, At that Particular Moment, is the sequel to his celebrated work Polar Convergence. The project situates itself within a location previously visited by the artist in 2002, Denali National Park, Alaska. The artist's inquiry was to investigate the climatic shifts occurring and how a mountain range notorious for creating its own weather patterns, self-formulated by the geographic mass and mix of atmospheric pressures, oxygen levels, and glacial fronts, is being affected by actions occurring outside the National Park. In the Autumn of 2024, Hutchinson took this interest into action and entered the unforgivable landscape by charter plane, locations predominantly reserved for the most highly skilled alpinists. Upon returning, he formulated artworks, based on his observations, each work a powerful expression of the impact of the changing environment.
The body of work is divided into three distinct yet interconnected chapters. This publication presents a selection of the raw photographic images as a diary of the fieldwork. The first three works, the Entry Points, authentication of the sheer mass contained within the National Park, the following three works, the Interventions, the un-disputable and horrific documentation of humans' impact on the fragile landscape, and the remaining three, to-be continued, descriptions of the landscape currently in flux, works describing in vivid detail the magnitude of climatic shifts occurring.
Three years in the making, At that particular moment presents the landscape in its most raw form, the works posit the past, present, and future of a singular location, illustrating humans' impacts on a previously stable environment and serving as a precedent on a global scale.
20 pages, 40.5cm x 30cm, softcover, acb-press (Melbourne).