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.

Campbell Kneale is a Lower Hutt resident whose cross-platform artworks have focused on the everyday mysticism of the New Zealand suburban experience and our mundane connections to 'the divine'.

Ideas for banners for The End of Water:

The distance from love to the heart is short and hard. 

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).

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.

The Bomb was an ironic comment on the decades-long hysteria about nuclear threat and growing up in the shadow of imminent nuclear disaster. For a New Zealand audience, this had the paradoxical quality of coming from the other side of the 'Iron Curtain'.

After a busy and exciting period of travel and the staging of a series of highly successful art exhibitions and events overseas, Angela Meyer returned to New Zealand bringing with her an exhibition of work by four female artists from here and abroad. Hunt draws on several of the tenets of the Arte Povera style; displaying open-ended experimentation towards materials and processes and scepticism towards overly intellectualised concepts, completed with a light, delicate and human touch.

A four week programme presented by Marcus Williams + Jesse Williams, Ian Wells, Nicki Wynnychuk and Tao Wells.

He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good , so be good for goodness sake...... A Christmas Story was an exhibition exploring the sinister side of Santa Claus and the mythology surrounding him. 

In Between drew on social history, anthropology, narrative, personal belief systems and media representations of strange phenomena to create a project marking the intersection of the everyday and the supernatural. 

Drawing was an exhibition of mixed-media work by Christchurch-based artists Zina Swanson, James Oram and Clare Noonan.

In association with Wellington Architecture Week, Enjoy presented a week-long sound installation.

For six days, from Monday through Saturday, each day at various and multiple times, Enjoy Gallery was host to diverse and exciting performance work by an illustrious line up of local artists.

For the opening celebration, Golden Axe created a multi-media installation, incorporating sculpture, sound and video projection. 

The Story of Three Sentences was an installation of sculpture and video work by emerging Wellington artist Amy Howden-Chapman.

A painting show, Hullbreach by Christchurch artist Miranda Parkes. The work referenced painting's history, subverting some of its conventions.

Room service was a pick-and-mix from some of the latest happenings at Rm103 Gallery in Auckland.

"....First there is nothing, then there is a deep nothing, and then there is a deep blue."

Gaston Bachelard, ‘Air and Dreams’, 1944

Running for seven consecutive days, Jessica Pearless and Kate Woods collaborated in a game of virtual 'Battleship.' Like the children's game of strategy, neither artist knew the other's plan of attack. However, in this instance the players were separated by over five hundred kilometres in geography.