They were Dan Arps, Nick Austin, Andrew Barber, Fiona Connor, Simon Denny, Sarah Hopkinson, David Levinson, Daniel Malone, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby and Tao Wells.
There were also group exhibitions a number of which were curated by Sarah Hopkinson who also helped produced the texts for catalogues and publicity material along with David Levinson.
The judge, former Tate Modern director Vicente Todoli, said that Arps had managed to turn Explaining Things, “into a revelatory multi-layered experience.”[6] Three Ideas for the State Tao Wells' 2008 installation, of three ideas, written in pencil and glued to the wall, with one typed up price list, floating around, each on a single sheet of A4 paper: was reviewed by Mark Amery for the Dominion Post Newspaper.
The clinch was that Wells put a price on putting these ideas into motion on your behalf as a buyer... to question the social function of the contemporary gallery space, the political role of the artist and the conflicting value placed on an art object's sale"[7] Carry on or Stow Away featured Louise Menzies and Fiona Connor alongside six Mexican artists marcelaygina, Eduardo Abaroa, Tania Perez Cordova, Adriana Lara, Joaquin Segura, Sofia Taboas and Australian Sanne Mestrom.
The contents included ‘excerpts from stories and conversations, poetry, notes, photographs, and drawings that, when read as a collection, accurately convey a picture of what it means to make art in the year 2007.’[9]