PAST EXHIBITIONS
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.
It's a Wonderful Tonight
Louise Clifton
24 May – 9 Jun 2007
It's a Wonderful Tonight is a new installation by Louise Clifton. Over the past two years the artist has created a series of photographic portraits based around a mysterious figure in a red suit.
The Warm Thrill of Confusion
Pippa Makgill
3 May – 19 May 2007
Enjoy is proud to present a solo project by Pippa Makgill, whose sculptural installation wraps up the gallery in a playful and formally structured assemblage of materials and objects.
Shelter or Marquee
Louise Menzies
12 Apr – 28 Apr 2007
What can concepts like freedom and revolution mean in the present?
Oil on Troubled Water
Sophie Jerram
28 Mar – 3 Apr 2007
The lubricator for countless political and historical transactions, oil's relationship with our late industrial society was investigated through Sophie Jerram's project Oil on Troubled Water.
a library to scale
Ann Shelton
8 Mar – 24 Mar 2007
A LIMITED SUBJECT LIST:
Party H.Q.
Stuart Bailey
15 Feb – 3 Mar 2007
Enjoy welcomed Melbourne-based artist Stuart Bailey to Wellington during the opening week of the City Gallery’s survey of contemporary New Zealand art - Prospect 2007
M&W
Hamish Win, Kate Montgomery
10 Jan – 10 Feb 2007
Summer Residency
With a departure from the usual residency format, in 2007 Enjoy hosted an art writing residency.
Buy 100
20 Dec – 23 Dec 2006
The 2006 Enjoy fundraiser!
Every Now, & Then
Ella Bella Moonshine Reed, Louise Menzies, The Association of Collaboration
29 Nov – 16 Dec 2006
On not forgetting: Before relational aesthetics became well articulated in international critical discourse, performance-based practices occupied similar contentious territory.
Hallways of Lives
Rachel O’Neill
9 Nov – 25 Nov 2006
Language, personality and the parameters of two specialised diciplines: physics and romance writing were investigated in O'Neill's Hallways of Lives.
Wildlife
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
27 Oct – 5 Nov 2006
The opening was followed by a performance at 8pm in Wellington's Oriental Bay and featured the lighting of Celebrate Crate - a special edition box of fireworks that retailed in 2005 marking the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes.
ROYAL ALUMNI
Fiona Jack, George Kontos, Josh Stone, Kim Schoen, Nate Harrison, Rebecca Hobbs
14 Oct – 21 Oct 2006
Enjoy Public Art Gallery was proud to present Royal Alumni, a dynamic group show curated by artist Fiona Jack, featuring Nate Harrison, Rebecca Hobbs, Fiona Jack, George Kontos, Kim Schoen and Josh Stone.
Enjoy Lasting Performance Series
Beth O’Brien, Gemma Tweedie, G-fab & the meat pack, Kaleb Bennett, Murray Hewitt, Raised by Wolves
27 Sep – 7 Oct 2006
Featuring works by Kaleb Bennett, G-Fab and the Meat Pack, Murray Hewitt, Beth O'Brien, Raised by Wolves and Gemma Tweedie, performances were situated in and outside Enjoy Gallery, across Wellington and reaching as far as South America.
Sometimes a kiss is...not just a kiss
Sandy Gibbs
6 Sep – 23 Sep 2006
In Sometimes a kiss is... not just a kiss, Sandy Gibbs explored the slippery slopes of gendered identity, selfhood and subjectivity.