PAST EXHIBITIONS
Ryan Chadfield and Tao Wells
Ryan Chadfield, Tao Wells
2 Mar – 20 Mar 2004
On behalf of Ryan Chadfield and Tao Wells and the Enjoy Public Art Gallery we bring you a show. Death and beauty in young naked people is a timeless subject explored here by two of Wellington's most enigmatic officers of insight.
Nine O'Clock Photos
Shana Brown
18 Feb – 28 Feb 2004
The Length series opened with the 1999 calendar year of Shana Brown's project, The Nine O'clock Photos. As descriptive as the title suggests, for six years and counting, every evening at nine o'clock Brown takes a photograph. Operating as a retrospective slice of her on-going project, this first installment presents a whole year gathered in one room.
FLOORED
James Keene, Katja Fabig
17 Feb – 3 Jul 2004
FLOORED was a two-part installation project. The first part of the project was in the hallway from 17th February to 19th June, the second part opened in the gallery on 22nd June and ran until 3rd July.
Enjoy Presents
Ciaran Begley, Eugene Hansen, John Lake, Louise Tulett, Matt Couper, Mike Heynes, Ryan Chadfield, Stephen Clover, Tao Wells
4 Feb – 14 Feb 2004
After successful shows during 2003 at the High Street Project and the Blue Oyster gallery, the Enjoy Presents show returns home for a Wellington debut before heading north for the finale later this year at Rm 103.
Mendt
Liz Allan
8 Jan – 30 Jan 2004
Summer Residency #7
Mendt: Garment Repair Services.
Time Will Break The World
Kim Paton
4 Dec – 21 Dec 2003
The second half of the Feature Wall series hosts a confronting challenge to the activity of space. Kim Paton's installation TIME WILL BREAK THE WORLD presented a sharply site responsive work calling on Minimalist traditions of monumentality and physicality through a use of distorted scale and a grandness of structure.
Dear Dancer
Maddie Leach
13 Nov – 29 Nov 2003
In Dear Dancer Maddie Leach continued her inquiry into what has been termed 'sentimental minimalism' through the presentation of works that operated both as aesthetic objects and venues for participation, layering nostalgia and popular entertainment over minimalist formality.
Deracine
Andy Palmer
13 Nov – 20 Dec 2003
A foyer project by Enjoy and Andy Palmer
Colour, a constant companion of nearly all forms of life on this earth, has, like other great forces, potentials of good and evil.
Portable
Ali Bramwell, Cathy Helps, Douglas Kelaher, Emily Pauling, Iain Cheesman, Michael Morley, Mike O'Kane, Nathan Thompson, Teresa Andrew
29 Oct – 6 Nov 2003
Blue Oyster Export/Import Company
Portable portrayed Dunedin's transient and nostalgic existence, and developed an almost tongue-in-cheek take on 'the other', looking to the local art community's perceived position as gently marginalised in the national context.
Fidelio
Nikki Wynnchuk
22 Oct – 29 Oct 2003
Do you watch film to understand?
She said something about life for her parent's generation.
Kelvin S. C. Corpus
Amanda Newall
1 Oct – 18 Oct 2003
Newall's residency at the Whangerei Polytechnic resulted in her investigation of materials such as glass and clay. Kelvin S. C. Corpus stemmed from these observations and experiments with materials and associated ideas of scientific processes and the creation of new beings.
Enjoy Presents: The Blue Oyster Gallery
Ciaran Begley, Eugene Hansen, John Lake, Louise Tulett, Matt Couper, Mike Heynes, Ryan Chadfield, Stephen Clover, Tao Wells
16 Sep – 27 Sep 2003
In response to the organisation of the exhibition swap between Blue Oyster Gallery and the artist run spaces Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington and High Street Project in Christchurch, Enjoy Presents seeks to reveal the gestures of union and support that constitute the community of spaces such as Enjoy.
Save the Robots
Belinda Curran, Bill Thompson, Chris Chitty, Gregory Sharp, Marcus Moore, Nick McGowan, Stuart Shepherd
10 Sep – 27 Sep 2003
Utilising robotics and animation, combining the domestic and the industrial Save the Robots observed the constant arrival of technology presenting hybrids of the human/machine interface.
E.T.A.
Amy Howden-Chapman, Daniel du Bern, Gary Peters, Glen Hayward, James Finnlater, Kate Woods, Marnie Slater, Sandra Schmidt
20 Aug – 6 Sep 2003
A mix of works that made a fresh and persuasive play with what constituted the desired destinations and imagined locations of contemporary travel.
group regroup
Karin van Roosmalen
30 Jul – 16 Aug 2003
Karin van Roosmalen's work was about space and spaces—how we inhabit our built environments, about the effects of our mobile lives on those environments and about the tension between functioning effectively in the world with minimal means and the compulsion to accumulate stuff.
Enjoy Presents: High Street Project
Ciaran Begley, Eugene Hansen, John Lake, Louise Tulett, Matt Couper, Mike Heynes, Ryan Chadfield, Stephen Clover, Tao Wells
29 Jul – 16 Aug 2003
In response to the organisation of the exhibition swap between Blue Oyster Gallery and the artist run spaces Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington and High Street Project in Christchurch, Enjoy Presents seeks to reveal the gestures of union and support that constitute the community of spaces such as Enjoy.
Reaching Out, Calling New Age Power
9 Jul – 26 Jul 2003
As part of the series of New Zealand artist-run-space gallery exchanges, The High Street Project presented Reaching Out, Calling New Age Power.
Interference
Kaleb Bennett
18 Jun – 5 Jul 2003
An installation using interactive sound based objects, Interference presented the challenge inherent in sharing information.
Home Helper
Mark Harvey
28 May – 14 Jun 2003
Paying dual homage to the kiwi handy man and reality T.V., Harvey performed for us his own home renovation show.
Dial M For Murder
Kristin Perrett
7 May – 24 May 2003
Certain cult films and their obsession with murder form a starting point for Auckland artist Kristin Perrett.