PAST EXHIBITIONS

Spellbound

Terry Urbahn

2 Nov – 18 Nov 2005
2005

Terry Urbahn has spoken of his interest in the mystical sense that the medieval landscapes of Europe emanate. before this show, Urbahn had just recently travelled to Europe for the first time and was struck by the sense of age, permanence, history and grandeur of the places and sites he visited. Spellbound played with the memory of travel, simultaneously revealing documentation's failure of truly conveying an experience and the dilemma faced by the artist in absorbing and adopting its influence.

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SPECIAL at Enjoy: First year show

Andrew Barber, Chae-Hyon Cho, Clara Chon, Fiona Amundsen, Fiona Connor, Jason Lindsay, Joy Chang, Julien Dyne, Nick Austin, Simon Denny, Stacey Lim, Tamsen Hopkins, Tim Chapman, Wonmok Choi, Xin Cheng

12 Oct – 28 Oct 2005
2005

The first year of art school is often set aside as a time to experiment with materials, ideas, scale and space in a way not possible within the secondary school curriculum. This can be either a liberating or terrifying experience. SPECIAL at Enjoy: First year show takes work from this playful period of freedom and inquiry, combining works by students currently in their first year of study at Elam, Auckland with the first year work of SPECIAL gallery board members and other practicing artists from Auckland and Wellington.

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repeat performance 2005

Amy Howden-Chapman, Biddy Livesey, Bryce Galloway, Chris Cudby, Daniel Malone, John Borley, Louise Tulett, Sean Kerr, Shay Launder

12 Sep – 16 Sep 2005
2005

As a result of 2004's Performance Week success, we decided to do it again. Enjoy Gallery presented repeat performance 2005, a week dedicated to the exploration of contemporary performance art. In 2005 we invited artists from within and outside Wellington to choose a performance of their own or from history to be re-performed.

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Michael Morley

Michael Morley

3 Aug – 19 Aug 2005
2005

Michael Morley's paintings attempted to recreate abstract utopian ideas as graphic symbols. These inevitably operated as failures; an acknowledgement of the elusive nature of utopia and the futility of attempting to recreate it conclusively and with any authority. Failures too because of painting's reliance on failure and disappointment in order to proceed through successive and repeated deaths. The history of post-industrial global culture is replete with examples of failed utopias.

 

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Playing Favourites

Bekah Carran, Douglas Kelaher, Fiona Connor, G. Bridle, Gwen Norcliffe, Jade Farley, Jason Lindsay, Kim Paton, Leah Mulgrew, Liz Allan, Louise Tulett, Ros Cameron, Sriwhana Spong, William Hsu

4 Jul – 9 Jul 2005
2005
Enjoy's Fifth Birthday

On July fourth 1776 independence was declared from Britain and the United States of America was born. Two hundred and twenty four years later, Enjoy gallery, also independent and liberated from commercial restraints, opened its doors to the public for the first time. Five years on, it was time to mark this momentous occasion and celebrate the longstanding dedication of the gallery's contributors and followers.

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untitled (pictures, objects, Enjoy, Cuba St, Wellington, 2005)

Ella Bella Moonshine Reed

13 Apr – 29 Apr 2005
Ella Bella Moonshine Reed, Untitled (Pictures, Objects, Enjoy, Cuba St, Wellington, 2005), 2005. Images courtesy of Jessica Reid and the artist.

Ella Bella Moonshine Reed, Untitled (Pictures, Objects, Enjoy, Cuba St, Wellington, 2005), 2005. Images courtesy of Jessica Reid and the artist.

2005

This work, untitled (pictures, objects, Enjoy, Cuba St, Wellington, 2005) runs alongside much of her other work in style and tangles in many of the same interests. She likes making slowed down loose room-studies of close history, plants, landscape, galleries, gallery assistants and art (but that's not all).

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Soliloquy

25 Mar – 8 Apr 2005
2005

Sandra Schmidt continued to work with her signature plastic bead constructions in her solo exhibition, Soliloquy, at Enjoy. These meticulously constructed sculptures are produced by melting thousands of tiny plastic beads together to form pictorial objects.

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