[5] Curator Ane Tonga noted that the recurring use of this material in Hutchinson's art practice works to address "a wide range of historical, social and representational constructs.
These include Beat the Feet, a site-specific work responding to the Christchurch Cathedral as part of Art and Industry's Biennial SCAPE 2008; Te Taumata, six site-specific works for the opening of the redeveloped Auckland Art Gallery in 2011; a digital binocular station that presents viewers with images of virtual landscapes in Chews Lane in central Wellington; I Like Your Form as part of The Arcades Project in the Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch in 2014; and Star Mound, produced for the 2015 Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition.
Made up of more than 1,400 individual curved, teardrop-shaped pieces of anodised aluminium, the 36-metre long work on the facade of a multi-storey carpark was inspired by Māori kākahu (woven cloaks) and the feathers of the endangered kākāpō.
[11] In developing the work Hutchinson studied a kākahu made with kākāpō feathers from the collection of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland.
In 2002 the collective researched ancient rock platforms called tia seu lupe (pigeon snaring mounds) in Samoa, resulting in an exhibition titled Vahine.