Ali Hutchinson

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Morse code torchlight in a stormy sky, a seagull flying overhead

Morse code torchlight in a stormy sky, seen as a projected film in a dark gallery with audience

lighthouse / Signalling poetry in Morse code using torchlight from the top floor suite of the Liverpool Hilton hotel. Overlooking the Irish Sea, the hotel became a poetry lighthouse. Triangulated with an answering poem signalled across the river Mersey, and a written piece buried three metres under the hotel entrance flagstones. Conversation with road diggers and hotel workers activated the piece.
2017
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Hilton hotel entrance with dug up concrete slabs and diggers in exterior doorway, in black and white

Northstar rubbing of italic lettering in pencil on wavy hung up paper

CD hung on a thin tree branch, blurry pine forest in background

Open book on gritty floor held down with volcanic rocks, showing murder mystery plot annotated with underlining : 'Hart Fell is all I needed. You didn't need to climb it' and 'if Flip didn't need to climb Hart Fell, I wonder if she needed to do any travelling at all. I mean, could she have solved the puzzle from her bedroom?'

The Falls / Film shot into murder mystery CD crowscarer in shooting estate forest at dusk, recording a parallel world as night falls and evening birds return. Northstar / Rubbing from caravan abandoned in shooting estate forest, predicting aurora sighting that night. On residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, funded by Oppenheim-Downes Memorial Trust.
2025
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Building development with black flag flying on high scaffold, looking quite tiny, in black and white

protection / Signalling flag flown from twelfth floor scaffolding of Victorian orphanage by Liverpool ‘security’. The flag could be viewed from a Victorian jail rooftop across the city with binoculars in the setting sun, marking a third cathedral spire of risk and parallel life, as part of a group exhibition.
2017
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Two people on a rocky sea front, a woman holding a giant home made flag, a man further away pointing out to sea, in black and white

Close up of home made flag attached to a stick, flying in the wind

Hope + Resolute / Passers by help signalling tankers on Crosby shore, using a parallel form of maritime signalling language using umbrellas blown into the dock remade into flags.
2017
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Microphone with grey fluffy cover in a leafy tree tied with a rope, angled upwards

Blurry image of bare feet in rolled up jeans walking through grass

Walking barefoot and recording the dawn chorus on Fieldwork R&D expedition with Laura Copsey. Live piece Highgate Cemetery / Thames foreshore using the Highgate cemetery bell that separates the living from the dead to ring in the dusk tide, developed from Royal College of Art PhD research group mudlark trip.
2018 / film still of my barefoot walking: Laura Copsey
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Stacked square flattened silver foil wrappers on a dark red painted surface, with imprinted rubbing of a tall ship with sails in the middle of top foil square

Victory / Edition of the ship Victory as imprinted rubbings taken from my boat toasting fork onto Tunnocks teacake wrappers, for Scottish performance artist / scientist Morven Mulgrew Supernormal festival commission.
2025
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// ali hutchinson / march 2025 – – –