PAST EXHIBITIONS
Sometime later
Alice Baxter
3 Oct – 3 Nov 2012
Sometime later explores an interest in how an art work can exist as myth or ritual. By delving into a very sited act, such as a pilgrimage to a monument, Baxter’s work investigates the function of our own investment into the notion of the ‘significant moment’.
What Would I Do Without You
Daniel Betham
5 Sep – 29 Sep 2012
For the exhibition What Would I Do Without You, Betham employs the medium of video to explore contemporary notions of spirituality and nihilism in a poetic and absurd fashion. The films rehearse contemporary rituals or ad hoc games performed in sporting arenas. These games are original attempts at spontaneous questing—for the moment of fulfillment—in a post-nihilist or neo-transcendental manner.
On The Count Of Three!
Candice Stock, Jeremy Leatinu'u, Tanya Ruka
8 Aug – 1 Sep 2012
Featuring three moving image practitioners, this exhibition at Enjoy brings the work of Manukau Institute of Technology graduates to Wellington. Here, each of the artists enact, articulate and sometimes question social and cultural protocols that are specific to their own perspectives and experiences.
Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
Artemio, Daniela Edburg, Ihab Jadallah, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Louise Menzies, Mary-Louise Browne, Mike Heynes, Nathan Pohio, Nicholas Mangan, Ronnie van Hout
4 Jul – 4 Aug 2012
Featuring artists from New Zealand, Mexico, Palestine and Australia, Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding? is a collection of videos, photographs, sculptures and installations that explores the interplay between art and cinema.
CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING
Annsuli Marais, Lauren Redican
6 Jun – 30 Jun 2012
Everything is perfect and as it should be. If I could be more pleased, this would be a perfect increase in pleasure. It would result from further elements slotting into place, and the realisation that this now was as it had always been intended.
For James Hansen's Grandchildren
Lance Cash
9 May – 2 Jun 2012
Lance Cash's digital photographic works seek to explore ideas of dislocation, representation and mediation with strong ethical and environmental concerns framing the content. The exploration of these ideas and concerns seeks to raise questions about the ontology of photographic representation, practices of viewing and established relationships to the assumed real world.
Illuminated
Jude Robertson
24 Apr – 5 May 2012
Blending scientific enquiry, philosophic thought and everyday lived experience, Illuminated investigates the New Zealand terrain and landscape. Using recycled glass, the artist connects this work to the tangible matter of everyday life. Robertson's practice has long been involved with issues surrounding natural and imposed features in the landscape, Illuminated forms a response to the patterns that are formed by built structures of domestic life and the architectures of our day to day existence.
Ephemeral Traces
Alexa Wilson, Alex Papanastasiou, DeeDeeWitt, Erica Sklenars, Oscar Enberg, Samin Son, Sheilah Wilson
11 Apr – 21 Apr 2012
A Collaborative Performance Collage
Exploring the tensions between live performance and the documentation of the event that follows, Ephemeral Traces is a 2 week schedule of performances and recordings at Enjoy Public Art Gallery.
aaaGiLNrsty
Gary Peters, Lisa Martin, Natalie Ellen-Eliza
15 Mar – 7 Apr 2012
...sometimes the alphabet is ABJFHaaaGiLNrstyYCDETCF......and sometimes you get Nat, Lisa and Gary and mash them together (with a bit of cheap whiskey) in alphabetical order...linguistically speaking...
The Chinese Horoscope Show
Andrew Beck, Caroline Anderson, Chris Lundquist, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jordon Brethauer, Kate Woods, Liyen Chong, Murray Hewitt, Rachael Grandon, Ruth Thomas-Edmond, Sam Mitchell, Sheng Xiang Liao, Tiffany Singh
16 Feb – 10 Mar 2012
Featuring a dozen international and New Zealand-based artists the show is an exploration of the Chinese Zodiac. Guest curated by Erica van Zon, the twelve contributing artists have been asked to consider and respond to their zodiac sign. The result is an eclectic range of work in various media that is both engaging and playful.
Black Flora
Matt Whitwell
18 Jan – 11 Feb 2012
Summer Residency
Immerse your body and psyche in an upside down geological vista; a circus for your senses; an alchemical mishmash of sights, sounds, delights and a whole other gauntlet of wonderful sensations.
Force-Morph
James Bowen
10 Nov – 5 Dec 2011
In the exhibition Force-Morph, Bowen examines the schism between the real and the virtual.
They don't know where you want to go
Anton Berndt
13 Oct – 5 Nov 2011
The installation They don’t know where you want to go attempts to explore the sensation of mediation through the metonym of magnified vision.
Apocalypse Tent
Andy Irving, Keila Martin
15 Sep – 8 Oct 2011
The Apocalypse Tent is an installation exploring ideas of habitation in our current doomed-filled predicament.
Infinity Pool
Mei Ling Cooper, Melanie Bell
11 Aug – 5 Sep 2011
Infinity Pool is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures, that considers the relationship between water and gesture through the simplicity of materials. Infinity Pool takes the ubiquitous resource of water as a starting point to examine monumentality as existing within everyday considerations.
Knock On The Sky Listen To The Sound
Tiffany Singh
14 Jul – 6 Aug 2011
"Knock on the sky listen to the sound" is a Buddhist proverb Tiffany Singh first heard while travelling over the Himalayas on a pilgrimage to Lamayuru or Yuru Gompa, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Western Ladakh.
BEES Forever: The Future of Bee Construction
Catherine Caudwell, Deb Tuckey, Samantha Wallis
16 Jun – 9 Jul 2011
BEES Forever is an investigation into the possible reasons bee populations have declined. Offering a potential solution to the problem, BEES forever presents artificial bee construction as a viable option.
The Weight of Jupiter
Lisa Benson, Rossana Martinez, Zoe Rapley
18 May – 11 Jun 2011
Consisting primarily of gaseous and liquid matter, the atmospheric composition of Jupiter renders the gas giant without a solid surface; seemingly appropriate, considering it was named after the Roman God of Sky and Thunder.
What is Post-Formalism?
Billy Gruner, Sarah Keighery
21 Apr – 14 May 2011
Enjoy Gallery presents What is Post-Formalism? a show by Sydney based artists Billy Gruner and Sarah Keighery.
Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn
Andrew Barber, Bek Coogan, Benjamin Buchanan, Caroline Johnston, Clara Chon, Fiona Jack, Janneke Raaphorst, Rachel Walters, Rob McHaffie, Tessa Laird, Victoria Munro, Sonya Lacey
26 Mar – 16 Apr 2011
With various speculative interpretations surrounding 2012, and 2012 as the International Year of Astrology, the Horoscopes show, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn has been conceived of as a playful exploration of the Zodiac, with twelve artists responding to their sun sign.