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GUTTER ART
Bronze Award 2024 DINZ Best Awards
AUT AD23 Outstanding Year 3 Project Award
Gallery & Retail
Shop 43/37 Nuffield St, Newmarket, Auckland
2023
Gutter Art is a 24-hour gallery space designed to celebrate the process of immersive story telling through expressive line drawings, known as manga. The phrase “gutter art” describes art that sits outside the accepted conventions of typical art practices. Similar to “gutter art,” manga is an undervalued and suppressed art form entrenched within consumer culture. Set against the backdrop of retail Newmarket, Gutter Art is a space that invites the visitor to experience manga in its deconstructed form. A journey through intricate layers of manga will find you immersed within expressive pencil sketches, storyboards, and ink drawings, through to the final published product on display.



Suspended between floor and ceiling, perforated wooden screens obscure the manga that lines the gallery walls; an acknowledgement of the artists who are hidden behind their work.
Manga in-the-making is displayed in the ‘ink gallery’ alongside the workshop space. Visitors are invited to engage with the manga displayed in various stages of the making process.
Meanwhile, visitors are welcomed to purchase a cup of coffee and read their purchased manga in ‘The Gutter’ coffee shop.

ARTEFACT
165 X 200
Ceramic
The published manga are displayed within handcrafted ceramic ‘gutters,’ offering a moment of individual reflection, repositioning manga as an art form. This artefact is a prototype of one of these handcrafted ‘gutters’ made from white clay.
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