Benedict Hutchinson
Benedict Hutchinson grew up in Southeast England, and in 1990 graduated from Kent Institute of Art and Design in Photography. Hutchinson’s work, using photography is built on connection to the environment, the land and its people. Our symbiotic relationship within the ecological and sociopolitical system, not merely as spectators to it, but as caretakers, is integral to his work.
Benedict Hutchinson grew up in Southeast England, and in 1990 graduated from Kent Institute of Art and Design in Photography.
His photographic practice was interspersed through his work in the areas of printing, house restoration, his own specialist marine business and education. With an acute sense of social awareness and how society views itself, Hutchinson found different ways to live and work. Part of that insight developed through sailing for five years with his Irish partner between UK, Ireland and the Mediterranean.
An interest in sustainability and community led Hutchinson to Cloughjordan. Ireland’s only ecovillage, his passive house is self-designed and self-built. Hutchinson’s work, using photography is built on this connection to the environment, the land and its people. Our symbiotic relationship within the ecological and sociopolitical system, not merely as spectators to it, but as caretakers, is integral to his work.
Solvitur Ambulando – Hutchinson’s Artist book explores the intersection of family history and the Burntollet Ambush of the 1969 Belfast- Derry Civil Rights march. The book is held by the National Irish Visual Arts Library and was exhibited in Derry Central Library in 2019. Solvitur Ambulando will now feature in this year’s 2022 PhotoIreland Festival’s On the Irish Photobook presentation. The vulnerable relationship we share with the land and our neighbours was compounded through the Covid19 pandemic.
Hutchinson retrieved those relationships in developing his practice through Irish Wild Flowers, in the democratic form of the Greeting Card and a number of Rural Billboard Displays.
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