Past Exhibitions - 2007
Canary Annual ‘07: A Momentum of Activity
Wellington Launch
Saturday 1st December 2007 at 3.00 PM
Annual! Annual to your left! No, your other left!
This second annual publication by Canary Gallery, edited by Paula Booker and Rachel O’Neill, celebrates the momentum of activity Canary inspired, and continues to motivate, in its immediate Auckland environs and beyond. The quiet after-life of the space that closed in 2006 is disturbed enthusiastically by those who have contributed to the Annual ‘07, enlivening once more the network of artists, contributors, audience, and supporters that make the Canary call heard even now.
Featuring Nick Austin, J.A. Wallace, Laura Preston, James Robertson, Harold Grieves, Frances Loeffler, Rachel O’Neill, & Paula Booker.
More info HERE
Action07: A Week of Film Screenings
9th - 18th November 2007
The School of Fine Arts Engine Room Gallery presents Action 07, a week of video screenings.
Curated by the Engine Room, Action 07 engages the Engine Room as a site of critical interface between the university and the wider public and will offer audiences the opportunity to see rarely screened video works by New Zealand and international artists. Each screening will be briefly contextualised prior and will be followed by a time for audience discussion where appropriate.
Showcasing works by Darryl Walker, Maxine Harris (The Chaotic Universe), Vincent Ward (In Spring One Plants Alone), Bruce Barber (A Friend in Deed is a Friend in Need), and Bill Viola (Four Songs).
More info HERE
Toowoomba - Massey Painting Exchange
24 - 27 October 2007
The Engine Room hosts the second in the biennial Exchange Series between the Schools of Fine Arts of The University of Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia and Massey University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. The exchange aims to give undergraduate painting students the opportunity to exhibit in an international academic context.
This, the Australian component of the 2007 Exchange features the work of five Toowoomba students: Katy Aspin, Elysha Gould, Alex Isaacson, Chelsea Luck, and Cara-Ann Simpson. They employ a range of media including photography, painting, and sound.
The New Zealand component showed at the Gallery of The University of Southern Queensland from August 30 to September 28 of this year. It showed the cross-disciplinary work of Debbie Allen, Chris Brady, Hannah Edmunds, Nicola Kurton, Keila Martin, Douglas Stichbury, and Samantha Wallis.
More info HERE
Harsh Tudor-Bethan Reality
Dan Arps
4-20 October 2007
Opening Wed 3 October 5.30 PM
Artist talk Thurs 4 October at 5.30
untitled (collected pictures and pictures for sale, Engine Room, Massey University Wellington, 2007)
Ella Bella Moonshine Reed
12 -29 September 2007
Closing event Friday 28 Sept 5.30 PM
The Engine Room Gallery is proud to present a new solo project by Wellington-based artist Ella Bella Moonshine Reed. As with previous projects, untitled (collected pictures and pictures for sale, Engine Room, Massey University Wellington, 2007) continues Reed’s ongoing investigation into the politics, poetics, and processes of gallery space.
At Enjoy Gallery in 2005 Reed shifted the gallery office out of its cosy alcove and into direct contact with gallery visitors, transforming the former office into a space where one could sit and bask in the late afternoon sunshine and casually read a book. This simple gesture drastically shifted the role and position of both the Enjoy staff and visitors, challenging notions of work and viewing.
More info HERE
Territorial Pissings
Curated by Caroline Johnston
9 -25 August 2007
Opening: Wed 8 August 5.30 PM, Artist Talk: Thurs 23 August 5.30 PM
Contributing artists include
Sarah Jane Parton, Greg Sharp, Marnie Slater, Mark Williams, Bronwyn Smith, Johanna Sanders, Mike Heynes, Caroline Johnston, Carlos Wedde, and Shay Launder.
Read catalogue HERE
List of works HERE
Some Kind of Fact, Some Kind of Fiction
Curated by Marnie Slater
19 July -4 August 2007
Opening Weds 18 July 5.30 PM. Artist talk Thurs 2 August 5.30 PM.
Featuring Ryan Chadfield, Regan Gentry, Simon Lawrence, Rachel O’Neill, Susie Pratt, and Hamish Palmer
Some Kind of Fact, Some Kind of Fiction, curated by the Engine Room gallery manager Marnie Slater, presents the work of six artists from around New Zealand. Working in a wide range of media, the works are characterised by an exploration and rupturing of history, science, myth, and the mystical. Like any good story, Some Kind of Fact, Some Kind of Fiction began with a surprising discovery and, by following threads of conversation and chance encounters, has arrived at a group of works that ask us to rethink the potentials of the materials, objects, architecture and systems that surround us. As an accumulation of invention, developments, discoveries and constructions, the works gathered together in Some Kind of Fact, Some Kind of Fiction seek to confuse and tell tales as much as to instruct. The works relish the moments where fact merges into fiction, where the process of viewing becomes a moment of shifting meaning. The exhibition will be accompanied by a small publication with new writing by Amy Howden-Chapman and Tahi Moore and a page work by G. Bridle.
Link to catalogue HERE
Inbox
Curated by Leena Stowell and Darryl Walker
26 May -8 June 2007
Opening Friday 26 May 5.30 PM
Caroline Blackgrove-Cameron, Adi Brown, Sam Duckor-Jones, Rachel Easting, Amy Howden-Chapman, Andy Irving, Salme Kortet, Peter Lewis, Nico Madill, Natacha Panot-Harfield, Gary Venter & Ingrid Ludwig, and Kate Whelen
The serendipitous collision of artistic creativity with a rigid framework. Twelve artists accepted an invitation to contribute work and their responses within the constraints of A3-sized wooden frames are as diverse as the simple instructions might suggest: “Do what you like so long as the box, in some form, remains part of the work”.
Photo by Marnie Slater
More info HERE
15 POINTS
Group Exhibition
Tuesday 22nd May 2007 at 5.30 PM
Video works displayed prior to Performances at 7 PM
Some refreshments provided
An exhibition for one night only at The Engine Room Gallery, Massey University.
It will be an extravaganza of Multimedia, Installation, and Performance Art. Curated by RadCore, a collective of 3rd and 4th year Fine Arts students, and featuring Brendon Philip, Erin Templeton, Aliki Boufis, Dirtroom Tomographic, Chris Cudby, William Hsu, Dave King, and Trimasterbate.
More info HERE
Automated Teller Machine
Stephen Rowe
27th April - 19th May 2007
Opening Thursday 26th April 5.30 PM
Artist talk Wednesday 9th May 6 PM
Stephen Rowe’s photography examines how consumers are lured from content by shape, colour, and symbols. “Familiarity does not breed contempt,” he says, “it breeds invisibility”. Words disappear in his investigation, asking the question: When we recognise something as visually complex as an ATM simply by its colour, is something deeper at work?
Stephen Rowe is a Wellington based photographer and is currently working towards the completion of his MFA thesis at Massey University Wellington.
More info HERE
Dialect
Curated by Arie Hellendoorn
21 - 31 March 2007
Opening Tues 20 March 5.30 PM
Dialect uses portraiture as a thematic springboard toward the development of a body of work. This is a multi media installation involving painting, photography, sculpture and computer generated work, featuring new work by Arie Hellendoorn, Julian Bishop, Daniel Shaw, and Eugenius Van Penseel.
Map of exhibition HERE
Mumbling Through to the Chorus
Bryce Galloway
28 February - 16 March 2007
Opening Tuesday 27 February at 5.30 PM
For the first Engine Room show of the year artist Bryce Galloway turns the gallery into a reading room for his zine, enticing his audience with free coffee, zines and music.
The exhibition also launches the 26th issue of Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People, a non-musical collaboration with Daniel Powell. In cartoon form, the pair have diarised the same dates in late 2006, from their respective homes in Wellington, New Zealand and Verl, Germany.
Bryce Galloway is a Massey Wellington Fine Arts Lecturer. He is best known for his musical output as Wendyhouse, with collaborator Daniel “EE monk” Powell, and for Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People, the fanzine he established in 2002. Galloway’s art delivers a personal politic that is lo-fi, everyday and infused with self-deprecating humour.