Canary Annual ‘07

The Canary Annual '07 – 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 physical Canary Gallery 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 is not restricted to the chronology of shows at Canary, or indeed the artists and works that showed there. Rather the Annual '07 expands outwards from the gallery and its limitations - financial, social, spatial and geographical.

Exploring opportunities via a programme that would eventually supersede its physical site didn't intimidate Canary and the Annual aims to follow through on this ethos. Canary Annual 07 acknowledges that the Gallery operated as a "self-funded, artist run exhibition space". But equally invests in what continues to emerge via a momentum of activity inspired by Canary Gallery.

Published November 2007 by Canary Gallery (ISBN 978-0-473-12923-1)

Edited by Paula Booker and Rachel O'Neill – Designed by Hannah Ngaei

w: www.canarygallery.com/writing.htm