Ron Hutchison Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Living and practising in Manchester. I experiment with architectural or commercial materials, appropriating and re-presenting them for interpretation. Obtained University of Salford MA in Contemporary Fine Art 2015. I have exhibited my work locally at several arts venues within Greater Manchester in recent years and am keen to continue to do so and expand my practice. Insta: ronhutchison2022
Ron Hutchison creates art from everyday materials, objects and environments, appropriating them and transforming or re-presenting them in a way that is meaningful to him in a sort of visual logic. In doing so, he records the process of transition from something familiar and ordinary into something else. The conceptual framework underpinning the work includes the divergent strands of abstraction, notions of the contingent object and how the work is made and exists in the world - what brought it into being and what resonances and references it might contain. The pieces are in effect hybrids, with sculptural qualities, and they may be considered to be finished 'objects', or they may be just 'things' that are unfinished and invite interpretation. He suggests that the notion of the unresolved and the uncertainty which exist in his work, often with no formal narrative, allows for the acceptance of multiple readings or truths. In his work's most extreme reductive form, the silence of the piece exists in its own right, even without viewer participation. So there is a suggestion in his work that although the pieces are abstract, and concrete, in the sense that they are concerned with the 'reality' of a form, a colour, a plane, they are also experiential. The work is essentially an exploration of 'object-hood' and how we individually experienced it. The viewer is invited to interact with the piece, and the space it occupies, and consider their relationship to it. As such, he says the viewer's experience of what he makes is key, in contributing to questions on our understanding and interpretation of art.
