PAST EXHIBITIONS
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.
The Three Wise Men of Kurow
Bob Kerr
21 Mar – 22 Mar 2011
The Three Wise Men of Kurow is a show of Bob Kerr's paintings based on the story of Girvan McMillan, Andrew Davidson and Arnold Nordmeyer who lived in Kurow during the Depression of the 1930s.
The Return
John Di Stefano
24 Feb – 19 Mar 2011
The Return revisits images from the family archive as a means of evoking a connection with physical and psychic spaces of the past.
Enjoy Summer Residency
Raewyn Martyn
19 Jan – 17 Feb 2011
Raewyn Martyn’s residency takes the form of a working studio set up around the investigation of how abstract paint-based interventions and wall works operate in public space, both on-site and outside of a public gallery setting. The working studio will research recent related practice and present these findings in the form of a reading table in the gallery, a blog, and studio work.
Prosthesis
Christian Nyampeta
19 Nov – 11 Dec 2010
Christian Nyampeta's upcoming show Prosthesis at Enjoy Gallery is an exploration of our relationship with objects.