I’m a multidisciplinary artist/writer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For several decades I exhibited widely as a visual and installation artist before gradually switching my focus to writing.

My parents, Grace Fugler and Leonard Hutchinson, were painters and printmakers with a strong commitment to social justice and human rights, and their artistic and political legacy is threaded into my artmaking. Identity also informs my work: on my father’s side I’m descended from the Romanichal Lee family (English Romanies); my mother’s people were Scottish, English, Irish (and German if you go back far enough). I’m what Romanichals call a poshrat (half-blood).

I’m a member of two artists’ collectives: Red Tree (Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario) and chirikli (Toronto and Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina). Chirikli collective’s sound installation, Canada Without Shadows, was exhibited in Call the Witness at the Roma Pavilion, 54^th Venice Biennale, Italy; BAK (basis voor aktuelle kunst) Utrecht, Netherlands; and Romania’s National Museum for Contemporary Art.

For a look into curator Suzana Milevska’s engagement with chirikli in “Beyond the Roma Caravan: Meet Lynn Hutchinson Lee and Hedina Sijercic,” read Gender Assignment:  Visit it >>

Identity and art practice were the focus of my keynote presentation “Poshrat (half/blood): making art in a precarious identity” at York University’s Imaginative Ethnography Symposium: Imagining Canada’s Futures with Romani Refugees; as well as in my arts workshop “The confluence of creation, identity and social engagement”  Visit it >>  My short story “the morning i died I flew over the tobacco fields” was workshopped as a multimedia performance developed in collaboration with Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography.

Recently I was first place winner of the 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction Visit it >>, and my flash fiction “My Heart Alive as a Sandfly in the Towering Wave” was selected as editor’s choice for best flash in Guernica Editions’ anthology This Will Only Take a Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes. My writing also appears in Room (Canada); Wagtail: the Roma Women’s Poetry Anthology (Butcher’s Dog, U.K.); Food of My People and Cli Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate (both from Exile Editions, Canada) and elsewhere. My short fiction “Vestigial Structures” in Stone to Stone: Writing by Romani Women is forthcoming from Propertius Press, U.S. I’m currently co-editing the anthology Through the Portal: Stories from a Hopeful Dystopia, forthcoming from Exile Editions, 2024.

Organisations:

• Red Tree
• Chirikli Collective