PAST EXHIBITIONS
Mall
Ruth Cleland
4 Mar – 27 Mar 2010
Enjoy is pleased to present Mall, a series of recent works on paper by Ruth Cleland. The series documents suburban shopping malls located around Auckland and Hamilton and represents two years of the artist's work, including drawings that were completed during a three-month residency at the Vermont Studio Centre, USA in 2009.
The Sun Shines Bright
Simon Glaister
19 Feb – 27 Feb 2010
As his first move in building a new home, a man bought several acres of land far out in the country. He was extremely busy and worked very hard. However, every weekend he would drive out to the country and work on his land. While he saved for his home he planted a garden. Wild bushes were replaced with saplings and flowers and over time he watched his garden slowly grow.
Hot House
Simon Glaister
28 Jan – 27 Feb 2010
Summer Residency
Taking the peyote cactus and Aldous Huxley's The Doors Of Perception as a points of departure, Simon Glaister will continue to explore these ideas at Enjoy alongside his ongoing investigation of the ever-contentious boundary between man and nature - that which is provided for us and that which we make for ourselves. Central to the residency will be the motif of the garden, and the notion of the artist as guide, shaman, or conduit of hidden or otherwise unobserved knowledge, experience and alternative realities. We might ask: is an artist privy to knowledge, observations, or experiences otherwise inaccessible to non-artists? If so, are these insights of genuine relevance to others? And further, if they are, are they wholly communicable?
Microcosms
Max Bellamy
19 Nov – 12 Dec 2009
A concerned child of film, television, and the Simpsons, Bellamy is determined to do his bit for a healthier screen culture. Part of a generation he characterises as fixated by screens of all sizes, he challenges the apathy this modern relationship fosters. He asks audiences to not just passively accept empty messages and instead figure out how they can be more critically engaged.
Tea Time
Don Driver, Maiangi Waitai, Ron Dixon
22 Oct – 14 Nov 2009
Enjoy presents Tea Time, a show featuring three artists who each challenge the mould of contemporary art practice.
Role. Play
Erica Sklenars, Justine Walker, Vivian Lynn
23 Sep – 17 Oct 2009
All in different stages of their careers, Lynn, Walker and Sklenars' individual practices deal with contemporary trajectories relevant to the female experience. Collectively, they speak to a wider social conscience, responsibility, and identity within New Zealand society.
Too Orangey for Crows
James R Ford
27 Aug – 19 Sep 2009
Having recently relocated to Wellington, Ford's first engagement with New Zealand audiences rests between two locales. Obsession; humor; failure; play; repetition; boredom: Ford delves into the activities and influences of his '80s childhood as a way of both embarking, and staying-put. "Kia-Ora," as the historically-rooted but culturally de-contextualised British softdrink proclaims, beckoning both a greeting and parting note at once.
Dove Tail Joint
Florence Wild
30 Jul – 22 Aug 2009
With a 'found' parachute, two paintings, an expanse of cassette tape innards and a hand-embroidered rug, Dove tail joint presents a collision between seemingly disparate objects, a variety of processes, and pop-cultural references.
The Urban Workshop: Cuba St Portraits
Albrecht Fuchs, Andrea Bednarek, Andrew Beck, Jake Mein, Jonathan Kay, Matt Queree, Miriam Douglas, Nick Buckley, Nina Van der Voorn, Olivia Taylor, Ryan Jellyman, Wolfram Hahn, Zoe de Boehmler
2 Jul – 25 Jul 2009
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, the Goethe-Institut and Massey University School of Fine Arts present The Urban Workshop: Cuba St Portraits, a group exhibition that combines the work of German photographers Albrecht Fuchs and Wolfram Hahn, with eleven emerging photographers.
Strata
Damian Stewart, Giles Whitaker, Janine Randerson, Mike Heynes, Phil Dadson, Stella Brennan
18 Jun – 28 Jun 2009
Contemporary digital artwork from Aotearoa, New Zealand
Digital art has emerged both locally and internationally alongside the development of new technologies. Artists from a variety of backgrounds have adopted digital tools and production methodologies as a means of realising new works, creating fresh perspectives on traditional mediums, and engaging new and innovative platforms for contemporary art.
In Dialogue
Darryl Walker
21 May – 13 Jun 2009
Enjoy is proud to present In Dialogue, the first solo-show by Wellington based artist Darryl Walker. On display at Enjoy is a sound sculpture, and multi-channel video pieces documenting two distinct yet dialogic bodies of work.
gains on losses
John Ward Knox
23 Apr – 16 May 2009
In gains on losses, Auckland artist John Ward Knox's sculptural language of nuance, traversal and critical materiality will exist within, while also implicating the gallery space.
Holloway Road: The Alleged Visitation by L.M
Fitts & Holderness
26 Mar – 18 Apr 2009
Enjoy Gallery is pleased to make public a series of documentary photographs, ten screen tests and three new interviews* concerning Holloway Road: The Alleged Visitation by L.M. This material will be accessible for three weeks.
The National Drawing Award
21 Feb – 14 Mar 2009
The National Drawing Award 2008/9 is the third in an ongoing biennial event hosted by New Zealand's leading independent contemporary art galleries: ARTSPACE, Auckland and The Physics Room, Christchurch. This year Enjoy Public Art Gallery is proud to join the NDA.
Le ‘Welsh' Man's 24hour
Bedwyr Williams
12 Feb – 12 Feb 2009
One Day Sculpture
Feeling that every one of the 24 hours should count, Bedwyr Williams' contribution to the One Day Sculpture series brings us the union of motor-sports and art.
Bedwyr Williams
22 Jan – 14 Feb 2009
Enjoy is proud to announce the arrival of acclaimed Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams in Wellington.
Our house (white indices)
Trenton Garratt
20 Nov – 6 Dec 2008
In Our house (white indices) Auckland artist Trenton Garratt's small works, ranging from dust-sized particles to larger ceramic pieces, were disseminated through the Enjoy gallery.
Landing
Noel Ivanoff, Raewyn Martyn
30 Oct – 15 Nov 2008

Raewyn Martyn and Noel Ivanoff, Landing, 2008. Image courtesy of Kimberley Lorne-McDougall Gustavsson.
Enjoy is proud to present a two-person show by Auckland-based artist Noel Ivanoff and Wellington's Raewyn Martyn. For Landing both artists have developed responses to the characteristics of existing architecture, space and objects.
Life Instincts
Kate Lepper
9 Oct – 25 Oct 2008
Combining light-hearted sculptural sensibilities with a political conscience, Life Instincts is a playful suggestion of what it could mean to be in love ...with the earth.
Aletheia
Tony Nicholls
18 Sep – 4 Oct 2008
Showing both prototypes and working sculptures at Enjoy, Nicholls presents sound energy from a visual perspective - to see what we can't hear. In this way his works are visual amplifiers.