There Is No Other Home But This:
Areez Katki and Khadim Ali
Curator: Zara Stanhope
There Is No Other Home But This surveys the practices of two artists whose work is a space to celebrate and explore contemporary life as it connects to ancient cultures and beliefs.

Khadim Ali, There Is No Other Home But This, 2022.
Installation view, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Image: Samuel Hartnett.
Rainbow Dance: Len Lye
Join the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in celebrating 120 years of Len Lye.
Rainbow Dance surveys Len Lye’s multimedia practice over his fifty-year career with essential, must-see film and sculptural works together with lesser known and recently conserved works from the Len Lye Foundation collection and archive.

Len Lye, Rainbow Dance, 1936. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and The British Postal Museum & Archive. From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Convolutions: Len Lye
One of Len Lye’s most novel projects is realised. Alternatively known as 'Wall Serpent' or 'Wall Motion Sculpture', 'Convolutions' is among Len Lye’s most intriguing large-scale kinetic sculptures.
Exhibition
Len Lye, Convolutions, 2021, Len Lye Foundation. Image: Bryan James.
Surveying the Surveyor:
Chevron Hassett
Chevron Hassett’s artwork in the Open Window is a new addition to his on-going project interacting with colonial narratives, specifically histories that have shaped the identity of communities and their landscape.

Chevron Hasset, Surveying the Surveyor, 2022. Installation image, Open Window Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Image: Lucy Scanlan.
Lalaga Pasifika
Saturday 28 May
11 AM - 5 PM
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and the Ngāmotu Pacific community invite you to participate in a day of art and culture recognising and celebrating Pacific arts in our community.
Hear from Pasifika artists and thought-leaders on the future of Pacific arts in Taranaki, learn traditional weaving techniques in our workshops, enjoy dance performances, live tatau demonstrations and much more in this Pasifika-packed occasion.

Join us at Lalaga Pasifika
Saturday 28 May 2022
Friends Fabulous 50th
Saturday 25 June
7 PM - 11 PM
The Friends of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre have been around since 1971, and since then have supported, promoted and advocated for the Gallery, and given our Friends the chance to be part of its remarkable story.
We look forward to celebrating 50 years with you!

Join us at the Friends Fabulous 50th Birthday
Saturday 25th June
News
Lalaga Pasifika at the Gallery - 28 May

Celebrate Pasifika creativity as we weave together Pasifika art, culture and community at the first Lalaga Pasifika, happening in and around the Gallery from 11am – 4pm on Saturday 28th May.
Thinking Out Loud

The new ArtNow.nz essay series – Thinking Out Loud – features an insight into the preparation for an exhibition by Areez Katki.
Everyday fabrics given new life with traditional skills

Areez Katki’s intricate embroideries and earthen sculpture adds rich family narrative and insight into Persian cultural history to There is no other home but this exhibition.
Smuggled tapestries from Afghanistan adorn New Plymouth Art Gallery

Three towering tapestries are about to take pride of place in New Plymouth’s premier contemporary art Gallery after being smuggled out of war-torn Afghanistan disguised as cushions.
Book of Len Lye’s poems released

The first collection of poetry by the internationally recognised pioneering filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye has been published by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Foundation.
Gallery part of Grounded in Place Symposium

Over three days in October, the Grounded in Place online symposium presented a conversation between 16 Frist Nation artists, curators, and filmmakers, along with non-indigenous scholars and museum professionals.
International Film Festivals coming to Gallery

The Len Lye Centre Cinema is welcoming four international film festivals in the coming weeks, connecting the district’s residents to the world despite the current travel restrictions.
International attention grows during artist’s 120th anniversary

International interest in the pioneering work of New Zealand artist Len Lye continues to grow 120 years after his birth, with the late artist’s work being included in a number of significant international exhibitions.
"Apple Cart Upset. You Have to Laugh"

So said the headline of the editorial in the Taranaki Daily News on 2 October 1975, in response to Billy Apple’s Neon Accumulation, 1968, exhibited on a back staircase of the Gallery.
Gallery launches virtual tour of acclaimed exhibition Tai Moana Tai Tangata by Brett Graham

The Gallery is proud to launch a virtual tour of the monumental exhibition Tai Moana Tai Tangata by Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui), produced in collaboration with Puke Ariki Museum and Library.
Foundation supports Gallery acquisition

The Govett-Brewster Foundation has supported the acquisition of an important new work for the Gallery’s permanent collection of contemporary art.
Gallery welcomes new works by Billy Apple to collection

Two new works by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Billy Apple have been gifted to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s permanent collection by the artist.
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In 2018 Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) spent six weeks in Taranaki as the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s artist-in-residence. Connecting with tangata whenua and his extended whānau, Graham researched the history of the relationship between Taranaki and Tainui Māori, focussing on the pact of solidarity forged during the New Zealand Wars, a relationship known today as Te Kīwai o te Kete.
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