"Once regarded at the most notorious slum area in New Zealand," Wellington historian Lynette Shum notes, "Haining Street today is an industrial area that bears little indication of its sensationalist past."(1) As the centre of Wellington's Chinatown from the late 1800s-1940s, it also bore witness to the one of the most violent episodes in Chinese New Zealand history, when Englishman Lionel Terry shot dead Joe Kum Yung outside number 13 in 1905 as a protest against Chinese immigration into the country. Kah Bee Chow's ONE DAY SCULPTURE, which occured on Sunday 31 August, is sited opposite this spot at number 10 Haining Street.

The walls of urban space both reveal and conceal the detritus of the city as excess matter is stuffed into cracks and merged into the architecture. Bus tickets are forced to lie between seats. Receipts and miscellany are trodden into cracks in the pavement. This matter is framed by its environment and remains part of a larger composition.

Orientated by architecture, Leading to Form explored relationships between bodies and structure. The work focused on the way a body senses in rhythms, textures, layers and juxtapositions that defy strict organisation. Willson and Rose are interested in this interaction; "physical and poetic encounters leave an imprint, a trace, always deferred, always leading to another moment."

Presenting both contemporary New Zealand and German photography, About Face critiqued historical and contemporary conventional ideas of truth in portraiture and set up questions about what the photograph can convey about the subject. This group show presented an array of approaches to contemporary photographic portraiture and was also a varied presentation of contemporary subjects.

Vincent Grocery brings together three artists in a collaborative exhibition that expands on notions of sculpting space.

"It's going to have videos. And cars ..."

The pairing of Robert Hood and Tahi Moore promised something slightly boyish, coupled with the deadpan, creeping, dry wit both artists are known for.

Anyone who has ever experienced a live piece of performance art is likely to have experienced confused expectations, a sense of embarrassment for the artist and or a desire for something successful to happen. Enjoy's 2008 performance series addresses these issues for both audience and artist.

When working in close proximity, people's frames of reference inevitably draw nearer together, and certain resonance spring from shared concerns. But what are these resonances? 

Enjoy was proud to present four moving-image works from Wellington-based artist Murray Hewitt.

Creating a dense and contemplative space within Enjoy Gallery, Hewitt's formally composed videos are subtle, open-ended and politically complex.

In the film Tetris: From Russia with Love (2004) Randy Broweleit, an ebullient Californian video-game developer from Nintendo, visits Moscow during the mid eighties, a city still isolated by the Cold War. 

A great work of fiction will easily draw out the imagination of readers of any age. Joanna Langford's constructions also open doors in viewer's imaginations, taking them into mysterious environments. 

Laura Preston has begun her occupation of the gallery as a workspace for research on contemporary sculptural practice, activating the gallery as a site for action, pause and reflection through a month of dance, sculpture and research.

Enjoy was proud to host (Ready-made) Everyday an exhibition of new work from Hong Kong based artist Lee Kit. 

Taking inspiration from the eclectically patterned, empty domestic spaces of interior design books of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Benjamin Buchanan examines the nature of abstraction and attempts to re-negotiate the clichés that it brings to mind.

Tao Wells' exhibition featured large-scale distressed installation, and video for a very limited time.

Travelling from Auckland, yet arriving without artwork in hand, Patrick Lundberg's kit contained the tools necessary to create his paintings, which do not always require application, relying on removal instead.

Reactive structures and light sculptures occupied the gallery space in Peter Trevelyan's exhibition.

Kannika Ou is interested in the migration of materials and products between their places of production, to their subsequent places of consumption.

Make Space Your Space My Space by Beth O'Brien and Kendra McCarthy attempts to address the lengths we as a public go to, in order to maintain some form of anonymity and ownership over our own physiological and physical space.

Speakers Corner is an Enjoy Public Art Gallery project that brings together members of diverse Wellington communities to discuss with the public the one thing they all have in common - experiences of living in Wellington.