Canary Gallery was inaugurated on Auckland’s K Road in March 2004 by founding directors Paula Booker and J A Wallace and closed permanently in August 2006*. Dedicated to exhibiting, publishing and promoting experimental contemporary art, Canary provided a venue for developing critical conversation around artwork. In 2003, practicing sculptors Wallace, Geraets and Booker responded to the perceptible lack of exhibition venues in Auckland and worked on their model for a gallery. The trio then renovated a former K Road barbershop into their distinctive and ungainly approximation of a white cube. That was it.