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Here you’ll find interviews with artists, reading lists and more. Contributed by Enjoy’s interns, staff, artists and friends.
For the weekend
Posted on July 16, 2016
by Louise Rutledge
As our book fair comes to an end, here's a list of some of our favourite online reading spots.
Celebrating Merata Mita's Legacy
Posted on May 26, 2016
by Emma Ng
👏 👏 👏
Awards Season
Posted on May 25, 2016
Current opportunities for artists.
In the papers
Posted on April 27, 2016
by Louise Rutledge
Over the past fortnight the gallery is lucky to have had two beautiful newspapers delivered to us: Speaking Places: How to work and The Ground Swallows you. Copies of both publications are still available from Enjoy.
Welcome to our new website!
Posted on April 19, 2016
by Emma Ng
We're incredibly excited to share it with you.
Proposals Proposals Proposals
Posted on April 6, 2016
Current opportunities for artists.
no, it’s no good iii
Posted on March 24, 2016
We love our building and, when the stars align, love to share it with other people. Margot Mills spent some time in our stairwell over the weekend and produced a beautiful video work addressing ideas of intimacy, labour and domestic space.
You should proceed perhaps, with caution…
Posted on February 12, 2016
Over the past two days, our artist in residence, Johanna Mechen has been instructing visitors on how to capture their vitreous eye floaters, the small black lines and dots that swirl in our vision (I always thought mine were dust).
Reading List
Posted on October 1, 2015
by Louise Rutledge
If you have walked up the stairs to visit the Book Fair this week, you may have noticed a computer sitting in our library space. As reading is on our minds, we thought we would share with you some of our favourite online haunts.
Deanna Dowling at VideoARI, Melbourne
Posted on September 27, 2015
VideoARI brought together single-channel video works selected by artist-run-initiatives from across Australia and New Zealand. With a focus on artist-run-initiatives from outside of Melbourne, the exhibition operated as a platform through which the participating artist-run-initiatives could highlight a single video work from their region and present this within the Melbourne context. The works are displayed simultaneously across a dozen monitors, in a cacophony of video.
An Interview with Angela Kilford
Posted on September 11, 2015
Angela Kilford is a Wellington based performance artist whose practice is centred on the act of walking and conversation as way of examining the physical, cultural and social histories of a given site.
Angela has recently exhibited the Reclamation Walk during the 2014 Performance Arcade and was part of the Enjoy Offsite exhibition The levelling of Puke Ahu in March 2015. Elisabeth Pointon has participated in a number of her works and sat down with Angela to discuss her most recent performance with Aliyah Winter–Walk on Fallow Lands at Toi Poneke.
#winners
Posted on September 10, 2015
Over the past year we have watched and cheered as three of our exhibiting artists have taken away the top prize across a number of New Zealand arts competitions.
And the winners are...
Summer Residencies at Enjoy
Posted on July 23, 2015
Over the last decade, Enjoy Gallery has hosted artists, designers, curators and collectives in the gallery during the summer months. The gallery has been used as a studio, publishing house and exhibition space, as well as playing host to an expansive range of public programmes and collaborative events.
Betwixt and Between
Posted on May 14, 2015
by Kayla Ward
Kalya Ward discusses the research behind her work The Ghost of William Harper as part of the group exhibition Something felt, something shared.
Continuing the conversation
Posted on April 20, 2015
by Emma Ng
An ANZAC reading list
On playing the tourist (Part 1)
Posted on March 26, 2015
by Louise Rutledge
Over my last two trips to Auckland I have established a very exhausting routine of trying to visit every gallery I can, all in the one or two days, from the shiny dealer galleries to new artist run initiatives and established community spaces.
2.0 An Interview with Ryan Ballinger
Posted on March 10, 2015
by Jo Bragg
On the morning of Friday the 27th of February artist Ryan Ballinger and I held our second interview (this time over the phone), to discuss his recently completed and up and coming projects.
Between Wind and Water Artists
Posted on January 30, 2015
Meet the artists from Between Wind and Water
Review: Elbowroom's Concoction
Posted on January 29, 2015
by Peyton Sweeney
We may have five senses, but we don’t take note of them equally. As a society we headline our lives with where we ate, what we ate, and whom did it best. When we enter a space we subconsciously attune to what surrounds us.
An Interview with Ryan Ballinger
Posted on December 19, 2014
by Jo Bragg
I'm here with Ryan Ballinger, joining me from New Plymouth as he completes an artist in residency project with 30 Upstairs Gallery.