Artist, Kevin Hutcheson, was one of Scotland's most influential artists of the last twenty years and was especially respected by his peers in the Glasgow art community. Born in Hamilton, Scotland in 1971, he graduated with a First-class honours degree from the prestigious Fine Art course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee in 1997. He subsequently gained his MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2002. He lived and worked in Glasgow and exhibited widely across the UK and internationally including significant exhibitions at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; East International, Norwich Gallery; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Tate Modern, London; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, New York and Glasgow International. His work is represented by Patricia Fleming, Glasgow, with whom he enjoyed a long history of collaborations.

Hutcheson worked in collage, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculptural installations. He chose to work deliberately with limited means - newspaper, sandpaper, second hand books. He developed a distinctive practice that employed imagery and text taken from a range of printed sources, as a way of articulating his own intimate experiences using a collective language. Through these means he explored different questions of both personal and cultural history, of context and narrative.

“Working with collage provides both the material as well as the philosophical basis for my practice. In our post-digital age this almost anachronistic, hand crafted approach offers a very direct means to address the delirium which results from an overabundance of information that is now the norm within society. Our commonplace perception of reality can seem to be overwhelmingly fragmentary. The economy of using such materials as newspaper and magazine cuttings within my work is not a sign of its slightness, but rather an attempt to create a clear and appropriate language.” Quote by Kevin Hutcheson