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

We are ready! See you all at 5pm for the opening of Charlotte Robertson’s solo exhibition ‘I ate the apple, but it was n...
11/09/2026

We are ready! See you all at 5pm for the opening of Charlotte Robertson’s solo exhibition ‘I ate the apple, but it was not enough’ 🍎🍎🍎

Charlotte Robertson

We were so lucky to have Charlotte in the gallery today helping us install this beautiful exhibition. I’m already comple...
10/09/2026

We were so lucky to have Charlotte in the gallery today helping us install this beautiful exhibition. I’m already completely in love with this body of work and can’t wait to share it with you all.

See you āpōpō at 5pm for the opening of “I ate the apple, but It was not enough”

Nau mai, haere mai, All are welcome 🤍

Charlotte Robertson

Artist Profile - Charlotte Robertson (b.1983) is an artist and somatic therapist living in Dunedin, New Zealand. Charlot...
08/09/2026

Artist Profile - Charlotte Robertson (b.1983) is an artist and somatic therapist living in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Charlotte works with oil paint on plywood and paper, creating works that are talismanic in nature. Influenced by personal mythology, the natural world and visionary states, she creates altar-like compositions that invite the viewer to see beyond the world of form, into the hidden realms.

Charlotte is a self taught artist, exhibiting in group and solo shows across New Zealand and internationally. She attended the Wassaic Project artist residency in New York in 2026.

Recent solo and group exhibitions and residencies include the Wassaic Project Residency, New York (2026); Wells Art Contemporary Finalist, Somerset, United Kingdom (2026); Spring Chapter, Pallas Studio, Chicago (2026); Votive, Side Gallery, Brisbane (2026); Papier Volume 3, Delphian Gallery, London (2025); SpudOPEN, Spud Gallery, Hampshire (2025); Works on Paper 7, Blue Shop Galleries, London (2025); The Turua Tiny Show, Turua Gallery, Auckland (2025); and Reimagined by the Muse, The Frame Gallery, Auckland (2024).

“I ate the apple, but it was not enough” opens this Friday September 11 at 5pm. See you soon…

Charlotte Robertson
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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

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21 Moray Place
Dunedin
9016

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

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