Lonnie Hutchinson

Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, film and performance, Lonnie Hutchinson articulates a Polynesian worldview that draws on the stories of her Sāmoan, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kuri, Scottish and English ancestors. Cut-outs are a distinctive feature of her work, creating shadows from absence, and referencing the Samoan concept of vā, the space between two people, or a person and the environment. This work takes the shape of a hairpiece commonly worn by women in the Pacific and is a maquette for a series of larger works that Hutchinson produced. It is one of the fifty-seven works given by Karen Stevenson to the Gallery in 2022.