TYRA HUTCHENS

SPACE 2

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Tyra Hutchens is a Melbourne-based artist whose paintings explore emotion, memory, and the subtle complexities of everyday life. Working mainly in oil on linen and paper, his practice moves between abstraction and figuration, creating atmospheric works that feel both personal and open to interpretation.

His paintings are built through layered surfaces, soft tonal shifts, and expressive brushwork, capturing moments of stillness, movement, and quiet tension. Rather than telling direct stories, Hutchens creates spaces that suggest fragments of memory and experience, allowing viewers to form their own emotional connections with the work.

Inspired by landscape, human presence, and the changing nature of contemporary life, his practice focuses on mood and feeling as much as image. Through an intuitive approach to painting, Hutchens embraces experimentation and process, using texture, gesture, and colour to create works that are reflective, immersive, and emotionally engaging.