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Here you’ll find interviews with artists, reading lists and more. Contributed by Enjoy’s interns, staff, artists and friends.

It All Began with a List

Posted on January 7, 2014

In October 2013 Eliana Joy sent Enjoy a collection of four books to be added to our Library.  Each book contains a group of notes collected at a different New Zealand art institution; Creative Arts from Massey, Elam from University of Auckland, Ilam from University of Canterbury, and Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology. The following is her reflection on the project.

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Erwin Olaf: The Suggestion of a Story

Posted on August 23, 2013
by Clare Callaghan

Erwin Olaf is a unique Dutch artist who creates his work through often haunting, cinematic drama. His photographs possess an emotional stroke of brilliance throughout each artwork, connecting the photographs together to create a cohesive and expansive story; or rather the idea of a story, the suggestion of a story. He does not explicitly inform the viewer, he creates his work for interpretation, to suggest narrative rather then impose it.

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Artist Statement

Posted on February 27, 2013
by Christina Read

When working on my art projects I like to count the hours I spend working. I mark the hours off on a piece of paper taped to the wall. I’ve been doing this for years now. I feel more secure this way. I realise quality of output is more important than time spent but since I started this routine, I cannot seem to stop.

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Our Film Festival Pick: We Feel Fine

Posted on August 9, 2012

The weather is particularly awful today, and this moves me to suggest a film. Adam Luxton, who just arrived back from Berlin, has a film showing tonight in the Festival. The gallery Hopkinson Cundy features in a few scenes, and the film uses my "dire and damp concrete jungle" (thank you Paula Booker for that great quote!) of a hometown, AK City, for its backdrop. There are also some great cameos from local artists and musicians.

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