Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24

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M.N.Hutchinson, "The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site # 24," 2017

photograph, Image courtesy of the Artist.

Since 1999 Alberta artist M.N. Hutchinson has been creating panoramic photographs using a home-built camera, which rotates on a tripod through 360 degrees. Exploring the sciences of both mechanics and optics, his works challenge our perception of reality and the traditional role that photography has had in reproducing and recording it. In this installation, the large circular anamorphic image began as a panoramic film, which was distorted with the use of a mirrored ball or tube. The resulting image portrays an engineered solution to the experience of landscape in much the same way that Randall Stout’s architecture incorporates the motion of the Aurora Borealis into the design of the AGA building. 

Initiated in the fall of 2011, the Manning Hall commission series provides a unique opportunity for the AGA to support the creation and exhibition of new, site-specific works by Alberta artists. 

M.N. Hutchinson

M.N. Hutchinson has been a working photographer for over 30 years, with both a commercial business that included album covers for A&M records to being a nationally recognized professional artist. His artistic practice has been contrarily cross-media. He has exhibited photographs, printmaking, sculptural installations, audio, video and performance works.

He completed his M.F.A. in New Media at the University of Calgary in 2004, where he was able to investigate the nature of acquiring visual knowledge. He has presented his work and theories in over twenty lectures and public presentations and been the recipient of several grants and awards. He has taught for 20 years and has also invested a considerable part of his career in the community having been both a co-director of Truck Gallery, a photography facilitator at the Banff Centre, as well as sitting on several boards.