Canary Annual '07

The Canary Annual ‘07: A Momentum of Activity
The Sunset Years: Canary Gallery September 2005 - September 2006
Published November 2007 by Canary Gallery
ISBN 0-473-10397-4
Edited by Paula Booker and Rachel O’Neill
Designed by Hannah Ngaei

NZ $20 available from info@canarygallery.com
and Parsons Fine Art Books, Auckland, NZ


This second annual publication by Canary Gallery 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.

Writing featured in the Annual '07 is not restricted to the chronology of shows at Canary, or indeed the artists and works that showed there. The Annual ’07 expands outwards from the gallery and its limitations, be they financial, social, spatial or geographic.

Nick Austin’s series of photographs pay homage to sites of potential pause or activity, while a pagework by J. A. Wallace illustrates his recent drawing experiments based on the perfect explosion. The Canary Gallery Minder Survey provides a behind-the-scenes insight into the day of an anonymous gallery sitter.

Laura Preston looks at the relationship between the works of Finn Ferrier and Gordon Matta-Clark, and the future-focused time capsule project by Fiona Connor, Finn Ferrier, Chris Fitz and Ben Tankard is also documented. ‘Which Craft?’ by James Robertson will have you knitting your brow as he tries to untangle craft practices presented in the Canary exhibition program.

Harold Grieves expands on the synthetic taste of original flavor, while Frances Loeffler observes on photographer Courtney Lucas. The work of Susie Pratt inspires Rachel O’Neill to argue for phenomenological forthrightness, while Paula Booker has contributed an arcade archaeology.

www.canarygallery.com/writing.htm