PAST EXHIBITIONS
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.
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.
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.
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.
CRAFT DOESN'T PAY
16 Apr – 3 May 2003
A Crafty Novella
exquisite craft: six pieces, six processes, six people, six weeks
Enjoy Toast
Andrew Clifford
26 Mar – 12 Apr 2003
Six toasters and six bread plates borrowed from New Zealand personalities were the focus of the exhibition.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
5 Mar – 22 Mar 2003
An eye for an eye: but whose eye was first?
Siv B. Fjærestad
Siv B. Fjærestad
1 Jan – 12 Feb 2003
Summer Residency #6
Fjærestad's work references everyday life, and her sensitivity to social and cultural interactions, played out through the materials and techniques she uses. In a previous exhibition she wowed audiences by crocheting fuse wire into the forms of 1980's and 1990's middle class, domestic appliances.