PAST EXHIBITIONS
workshopping performance series
Chris Brady, Gemma Syme, Hannah Edmunds, Hanne van Beek, Johnathon Titheridge, Shane McGrath, Vivien Atkinson
15 May – 31 May 2008
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.
red thing blue thing
Sam Rountree-Williams, Selina Foote
24 Apr – 10 May 2008
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?
Gospel
Murray Hewitt
3 Apr – 19 Apr 2008
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.
Believing in Politics
Martyn Reynolds
13 Mar – 29 Mar 2008
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.
Brave Days
Joanna Langford
21 Feb – 8 Mar 2008
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.
Go slowly (Never completely still)
Laura Preston
14 Jan – 16 Feb 2008
Summer Residency
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.
(Ready-made) Everyday
Lee Kit
8 Jan – 12 Jan 2008
Enjoy was proud to host (Ready-made) Everyday an exhibition of new work from Hong Kong based artist Lee Kit.
There's A Ghost In My House
Benjamin Buchanan
30 Nov – 15 Dec 2007
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.
will nature make a man of me yet?
Tao Wells
24 Nov – 25 Nov 2007
Tao Wells' exhibition featured large-scale distressed installation, and video for a very limited time.
Ah, Um
Patrick Lundberg
8 Nov – 23 Nov 2007
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.
Actron and Reactron
Peter Trevelyan
18 Oct – 3 Nov 2007
Reactive structures and light sculptures occupied the gallery space in Peter Trevelyan's exhibition.
Source Material
Kannika Ou
27 Sep – 13 Oct 2007
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
Beth O’Brien, Kendra McCarthy
24 Sep – 30 Sep 2007
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.
SPEAKER'S CORNER
17 Sep – 4 Oct 2007
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.
We Are Moving Forward Positively
Gemma Tweedie, Matt Gillies
11 Sep – 15 Sep 2007
Pivotal to how thousands of commuters and inhabitants daily meet and view the city at large, the Wellington Railway Station processes a diverse, transient and challenging community daily.
Pilgrim Tourist
Clare Noonan
6 Sep – 22 Sep 2007
Is it possible to communicate a real sense of place through dislocated signifiers? Is our own terra firma firmer in reality or metaphor?
A History of Space is the History of Wars
Sanné Mestrom
16 Aug – 1 Sep 2007
Spatially unsettled, and without the secure foothold of a single-point perspective, Sanné Mestrom's large drawings and watercolours allude to the presence of a larger continuum, a massive unravelling of space that can be imagined well beyond the paper's edge.
Fronting Up
Campbell Patterson, Gemma Syme, Ronnie van Hout, Sarah Jane Parton, Tahi Moore, Terry Urbahn
2 Aug – 11 Aug 2007
A Show of Performance for Video
The Enjoy Trust proudly presents Fronting Up, an exhibition collating an eclectic selection of video works, produced over a ten-year period and never seen together before.
Your words in my mind become mine. Your words are mine now.
Layla Rudneva-Mackay
11 Jul – 28 Jul 2007
We'll make great pets! We will make great pets!
T & G Building
Gaelen Macdonald, Tim Coster
20 Jun – 7 Jul 2007
With an interest in the process of construction and design, utopian plans, and quotidian ideas of interactivity, T & G Building briefly inhabited the gallery as a working studio.