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recent essays uploaded to our show archive.

Wild profusion, sudden intimacy: The summer residency of Simon Glaister at Enjoy Gallery_by Ann Poulsen (Simon Galister_Hot House)

Rejointed_by Molly Samsell (Florence Wild_Dove Tail Joint)

An inward, outward leap_by Jeremy Booth (Tony Nicholls_Aletheia)

Life instincts: The politics of abject desire_by Richard Reddaway (Kate Lepper_Life Instincts)
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Keen to do some writing for Enjoy? Come along to openings and artist talks of shows that catch your interest.

essays

Some new essays from Enjoy's democratic publishing house... yours to peruse, download, and/or print at your convenience. Please find them on each show's archive page on Enjoy's website... links below. Also watch out for the complete 2007/2008 PDF catalogues on the way soon.

Deidra Sullivan's Urban Encounters in Cuba St, written on the occasion of the Urban Workshop exhibition at Enjoy, 2009.

Rachel O'Neill and John Hurrel writing on the work of Raewyn Martyn and Noel Ivanoff, respectively, from their joint 2008 exhibition Landing.

Martyn Reynolds' essays Patrick Lundberg--Buying wool, describing space, making paintings, on Lundberg's 2007 show Ah, Um.

some holiday reading

in the last days of 2009, let us relax and read about, well, art!

Hands, songs and shoes: Laura Preston writing on Martyn Reynolds' 2008 show Believing in Politics

In Dialogue: Bree Smith writing on Darryl Walker's 2009 show of the same name

Kate Montgomery in conversation with Pippa Makgill on her 2007 show The warm thrill of confusion

Enjoy Book Sale, 2009

Enjoy Books are drastically reduced from today until we close for the year, at 4pm Saturday 19 December. As well as all being hugely cheap(!), we've put together the Enjoy Book Bundle, 2009: 5 books for $40.

2009 Bundle includes 'Public Good: Itinerant responses to collective space', 'Enjoy 5 year retrospective catalogue', 'There's a ghost in my house: Benjamin Buchanan', 'Never completely still', and 'Vacuum idle adjustment: Robert Hood & Tahi Moore'

Image features Wellington artist Mike Heynes' work, currently installed at Enjoy. Image courtesy of Enjoy

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'