sneak preview: 'Microcosms'

Enjoy's gallery space is this morning being colonised by the sculptural tableaux of Dunedin Artist Max Bellamy. Opening Tonight 6pm!!!

Stop by and join us for art, wine, and general conviviality.

Image courtesy of the artist.

more essays!!!

Mark Williams' 'Within you without you', on Louise Clifton's 2007 show 'It's a Wonderful Tonight'

Mark Amery's 'An essay about several published versions of a column republished as a review within this essay', on Louise Menzies' 2007 show 'Shelter or Marquee'

Selina Foote and Sam Rountree-Williams' text on their own 2008 show
'Red Thing Blue Thing'

democratic publishing

Can't resist pointing these new PDF essays out to all you art-bunnies. They're linked to their respective shows at the bottom of the Enjoy archive pages. LOTS more on the way too, a few going way back to 2007. I'll post links as they're finished and posted on-line; to print at your leisure from the comforts of home, or sneakily at work on company ink...

Thomasin Sleigh on Emma Fitts's 2008 show
'Compressed Space'

Tao Wells on Holly Willson & Sarah Rose's 2008 show
'Leading to Form'

Gabrielle Amodeo on Joanna Langford's 2008 show
'Brave Days'

And Bruce E. Phillips on John Ward Knox's 2009 show
'Gains on Losses'

the photographic medium in a post-medium age

A few interesting things happening at Massey in the next few weeks. Not least of which, the upcoming Peter Turner Memorial Lecture with Prof Anne Marsh.

Visiting from Monash University, Melbourne, and drawing on research for her recent book LOOK! Contemporary Australian Photography, Marsh will explore some of the issues that concern photography in the 21st Century. She will address critiques of the post medium condition and explore the influence of digital technologies and photo-installation through the works of several Australian art photographers who engage with the medium of photography in various ways.

Following the leading research of Geoffrey Batchen (who spoke recently at Victoria University), Australian photographic theorists seem to be breaking new ground.

When: 5:00pm, Saturday 21 November 2009, followed by light refreshments.
Location/venue: Museum Building Theaterette (10A02), Massey University, Buckle St, Wellington. Cost: FREE. RSVP (acceptances only) By: Noon Weds 18 November 2009
To: Maree Buutveld, email m.buutveld@massey.ac.nz with "Anne Marsh" in the subject line

STUDENTS GO BIG

There's quite a stir about an upcoming (loosely affiliated Masters) show: 'Place in Space' opens Wednesday Nov 11, 6pm at The Print Factory in Mt Cook, Wellington. It's short, and one not to miss...

An exhibition of large scale artworks in varying stages of completion.

The artworks range from sculpture to video to cross stitch and are as diverse in format as they are in the ideas that inform them. Works include a Morris Minor in the process of an unusual restoration, paintings inspired by the story of Moby Dick, a self sufficient garden, large scale video work and an old clinker converted into a space craft about to attempt an impossible flight.

Including artists Catherine Caudwell, Hannah Edmunds, Andrew Ivory, Shane McGrath Christina Oldfield, Douglas Stichbury, Mike Ting, Johnathon Titheridge and Samantha Wallis.

Word is that kazaamBLAM! is performing at the opening too!

images duly swiped from a press release for the show (thanks!) posted by Jeremy