Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tangata
5 Dec 2020 — 2 May 2021
A cautionary tale about human endeavour in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A solo exhibition of new work by Brett Graham (Ngāti Kōroki Kahukura, Tainui), curated by Anna-Marie White (Te Ātiawa).
Exhibition
Brett Graham, Cease Tide of Wrong-Doing, Gallery 1, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Image Neil Pardington.
Len Lye Tangibles: 1959 - 1961
Tangibles: 1959-1961 is the first of two exhibitions presenting a chronological overview of Lye’s kinetic sculpture.
Acclaimed for his experimental cinema from the 1930s through to the 1950s, Len Lye largely abandoned filmmaking at the close of the 1950s to join a thriving kinetic art scene. This exhibition presents original and reconstructed works from this important phase of Lye’s career.
Exhibition
Len Lye with Fountain, c. 1960.
Unknown photographer.
Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Len Lye: Sky Snakes
Never seen before, Len Lye's Sky Snake in installation of seven swirling Sky Snakes.
A new large-scale kinetic sculpture from the Len Lye Foundation and Team Zizz!
Sky Snake is a dancing kinetic sculpture. A rotating, spinning chain creates harmonic wave patterns or figures familiar to Lye's other works, and traveling waves that move up and down the chain. A brass ball at the bottom end of the chain represents the head of a snake.
Len Lye Sky Snake 1965 (reconstruction 2019). Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation Collection. Photo Francis Vissers
Maioha Kara: Salutations
A new work that acknowledges the changing of the seasons: what was, what is and what will come.
View a new commission by Maioha Kara (Waikato, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Arawa, Ngāti Porou) in the Open Window Gallery on Queen St, New Plymouth.
Exhibition
Maioha Kara, Salutations, 2020, (detail).
Rimu, glitter and stain. Image courtesy of the artist.
What’s On
Film still from Zog
Zog & Zog and the Flying Doctors
Film still from Zog
Sat 17 April - Sun 2 May 11:00AM — Len Lye Centre Cinema
Not one, but two terrific star-studded tales from Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning Magic Light Pictures, based on the much-loved books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Featuring the NZ premiere of Zog and the Flying Doctors.
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The Killing of Kane
The Killing of Kane
The Killing of Kane
Thu 29 Apr 21 — Len Lye Centre Cinema
In partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision and TVNZ and to coincide with the exhibition Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tanga.
Screening for the first time in 50 years, a dramatised television documentary of the 1860s Taranaki Wars between Māori and Pākehā. Filmed on location at Turuturu Mōkai and Te Ngutu O Te Manu.
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Gunda
Gunda
Gunda
Sun 18 Apr 21 — Len Lye Centre Cinema
Gunda is a mesmerizing perspective on sentience within animal species, normally - and perhaps purposely - hidden from our view. Displays of pride and reverence, amusement and bliss at a pig’s inquisitive young; her panic, despair and utter defeat in the face of cruel trickery, are validations of just how similarly all species react and cope with events in our respective lives.
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking
A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story | Bushi no kondate
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Sun 18 Apr 21 — Len Lye Centre Cinema
During the Edo Period of Japan, an excellent cook marries the heir to a renowned cooking family. However, her husband is a terrible chef. With the help of her new mother-in-law, she begins to teach him the ways of the culinary arts.
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School Holiday Programme at the Gallery.
April School Holiday Art 2021
School Holiday Programme at the Gallery.
Wed/Thu/Fri 10-12pm — Todd Energy Learning Centre
Drop in to the Gallery with your kids between 10am and 12pm to make art that surprises and inspires.
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News
Tai Moana Tai Tangata: A Taranaki Tribal Perspective
Tai Moana Tai Tangata – A Taranaki Tribal Perspective is a five-part speaker series extending on the themes of Tai Moana Tai Tangata, bringing a Taranaki lens to continue the exhibition’s narrative.
Tai Moana Tai Tangata: A Taranaki Tribal Perspective
Missed out on your ticket for the first event in our new speaker series Tai Moana Tai Tangata: A Taranaki Tribal perspective? You can join our livestream here from 6pm on Thursday 18 March.
Free tickets are still available for the final two events in our speaker series: Bishop Philip Richardson on Thursday 15 April and Te Ingo Ngaia on Thursday 22 April.
A Taranaki Art Adventure at the Auckland Art Fair
We're at the Fair
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre and a number of Taranaki’s top attractions have teamed up with the Auckland Art Fair 2021 as its exclusive Museum Partner.
We’ll be presenting Len Lye’s iconic kinetic sculpture Big Blade outside the main entrance to the Fair on Auckland’s Waterfront from 24-28 February 2021, thanks to John and Lynda Matthews and Technix Industries.
To celebrate our partnership with the Auckland Art Fair, we’re offering an exclusive Taranaki Art Adventure package to Fair-goers.
New artwork by Maioha Kara celebrates the changing of the seasons
What was, what is and what will come.
Salutations
Maioha Kara
5 December 2020 – 15 March 2021
A new artwork installed in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s street-facing Window Gallery celebrates the change of the seasons from spring to summer and investigates the cyclical patterns of our internal and external environments.
The architecture of war and language of memorials
Tai Moana Tai Tangata
Brett Graham
5 December 2020 – 2 May 2021
A major installation of new artworks by Brett Graham, (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, tells a cautionary tale of human endeavour.
An offsite exhibition of new work by Meg Porteous: Germinal centre
'Germinal centre' is the outcome of Meg Porteous’ digital residency with the Govett-Brewster, which has had a focus on two key photographic genres: the family photograph and the stock image.
Gallery Director Announced
Dr Zara Stanhope has been announced by New Plymouth District Council as the next director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre.
Lens On Lye
Lens on Lye: Guest Spotlight on the pioneering artist and experimental filmmaker
Artists, experts, scholars, specialists and Len Lye film fans share their insights on the artist and filmmaker in this fortnightly series, Lens on Lye, inspired by the current exhibition The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid (6 Jun — 1 Nov 2020).
For our latest spotlight on Len Lye, jazz and visual media scholar Dr Nicolas Pillai, discusses Lye's synchronisation of music to the burst and swirls of colour in his direct films.
COVID-19 - Alert Level 2
Kia ora koutou,
Following the Government’s announcement on the COVID-19 alert levels, and for the safety of our audiences, artists, staff and community, the Govett Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre will be moving into Alert Level 2 from midday today.
Read on to find out about the changes we have put in place, in order to remain open safely.
Please check our website for updates.
Challenging notions of migration, race and border: new exhibition suite at The Govett-Brewster
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre continues to lead contemporary art with its latest exhibition suite.
Lens on Lye
Artists, experts, scholars, specialists and Len Lye film fans share their insights on the artist and filmmaker in this fortnightly series, Lens on Lye, inspired by the current exhibition 'The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid' (6 Jun — 1 Nov 2020).
This week’s blog comes from artist Anouk De Clercq, who transforms Len Lye’s lively, energetic scratch film 'Free Radicals' into poetic language, which seeks to create bodily empathy.
Candice Lin Speaks to Radio New Zealand's Standing Room Only
Ahead of their exhibition opening this Saturday 8 August, LA-based artist Candice Lin discusses how the themes in her collection, which looks at the history of plagues, viruses and blame, have been made uncannily relevant by current global events, on RNZ's Standing Room Only programme.
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Uneven Bodies (Reader)
Uneven Bodies (Reader) is a comprehensive collection of writing produced as an outcome of a symposium of the same name held in Aotearoa New Zealand in early 2020 that addresses the politics of collections today and the complex terrain of power in which this conversation sits.
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Uneven Bodies (Reader)
