Olga Gallery, 32 Moray Place

COST: Free

The exhibition ‘Second Chance’ brings together three Dunedin artists that work with material, ideas and concepts around waste, particularly textile waste.

Meg Gallagher uses off cuts leftover from clothing production runs that would normally be destined for landfills, stitching these pieces together into canvases Gallagher then applies a mixture of natural pigments, dye and bleach creating beautiful landscapes.

Victoria McIntosh stitches together contemporary jewellery, sculpture, and assemblage. Scouring Ōtepoti’s op shops she is drawn to objects that carry a sense of history, whether real or imagined. Combining second hand shapewear and vintage metalware to explore stories of body image and autonomy. 

Jay Hutchinson makes textile copies of discarded objects that he finds on his daily commute. Through a process of photographing the object and printing it onto scrap fabric, each piece hand stitched where Hutchinson invests hundreds of hours into the forgotten and thrown away, making the unseen seen.