"A major exhibition of sculpture and film by Brett Graham opens in New Plymouth this autumn. Hanahiva Rose contextualises the histories, prophecies and revisitations in Graham’s work".

Kia ora koutou,

Following the Government’s announcement on the COVID-19 alert level, and for the safety of our audiences, artists, staff and community, the Govett Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre is closed until further notice.

Please check our website and Instagram for updates.

Join Taranaki artist Dale Copeland MNZM in an assemblage art workshop, running this weekend at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

Her work currently features as part of the Ruth Buchanan: The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong exhibition, which runs until 29th March.

Postponed until further notice.
10:30AM—1:30PM
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
$10 - Booking essential

Join Len Lye curator Paul Brobbel for a talk about recent Len Lye Foundation activities overseas, including the recent exhibition of Len Lye’s work at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland.

Tue 17 Mar 6 - 8 PM
TELC2 Len Lye Centre
Refreshments provided
Free Entry - All welcome

Talks and conversations on the future of art museum collections.

Fri 6 - Sun 8 Mar 2020
Len Lye Centre Cinema
$100 waged
$60 unwaged

Booking essential.
Tickets available online and in store.

This elegantly designed set of three black books is part of a new survey at the Tinguely Museum (in Basel) geared to introduce Len Lye’s films, photograms, paintings, drawings, writings and kinetic sculpture to a European (especially Swiss and German) audience—an expansion of the Pompidou show he had in 2000.

Ruth Buchanan’s The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong marks the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s 50-year anniversary. Lucinda Bennett writes about the discomfort, and the sheer joy of discovery.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has expanded its curatorial team, appointing several new roles, including an Indigenous Curator of Contemporary Art.

...For the last 50 years, the region’s largest city, New Plymouth, has been home to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, a contemporary art museum that has exhibited and collected chiefly New Zealand art. To mark this anniversary, Govett-Brewster’s co-directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, who joined the museum last year, invited artist Ruth Buchanan to develop an exhibition of work from the collection.

Congratulations David Clegg for winning an AAANZ Art Association of Australia & New Zealand award for ‘loca projects / correction’ (New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery).

To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, Walters Prize-winning artist Ruth Buchanan has rehung their collection, bringing previously unseen works and skeletons out of the closet. Her new exhibition The scene in which I find myself/Or, where does my body belong examines the politics of a public art collection: Who’s in it? Who’s missing? Jim and Mary Barr find out.

While in Ngāmotu New Plymouth for the opening of the exhibition The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, artist Ruth Buchanan spoke with Te Korimako breakfast show host Tamzyn Pue about whānau, the exhibition and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.