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.

Ethical fashion label Kowtow and Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary art museum, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, are launching a limited edition collection in collaboration with artist Ruth Buchanan.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is celebrating its golden anniversary and the woman who made it all possible with an especially brewed drop of amber nectar.

An artist who spent months on a residency investigating the Govett Brewster Art Gallery's policy on buying and selling work for its art collection, has curated an exhibition to celebrate the gallery's 50th anniversary.

New Plymouth is home to the Govett Brewster which has championed contemporary art since it opened in February 1970.

Ruth Buchanan, who won the 2018 Walters Art Prize is allocating a decade to each room in the gallery and has chosen work by almost 200 artists, the most artworks shown at one time at the Gallery.

Lynn Freeman called Ruth in Berlin to ask if she chose her favourite art or what were considered the most important works for the show, or if she went in a different direction.

The most comprehensive exhibition of Len Lye’s art to be seen in Europe has opened at the Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland. Featuring his kinetic sculptures, paintings, photograms, drawings, models and films, the exhibition occupies four large galleries, and examines in detail the full oeuvre of New Zealand’s most acclaimed international artist.

The winners of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Taranaki Adventure comic competition are budding young artists Lauren Knight, 6, and Ilaine Shuttleworth, 10.

As part of the Milky Mountain / 裏返りの山 exhibition (10 Aug - 17 Nov 2019), Yuichiro Tamura created KAIZO – a comic exploring New Plymouth in an alternate reality. The Gallery then asked creative kids of all ages to have fun creating their own mini adventure comics.

Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland will present the most comprehensive survey of Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist Len Lye’s work ever staged in Europe. The major exhibition Len Lye – Motion Composer opens 23 October 2019 to 26 January 2020 and brings together more than 150 artworks.

Reflections on Yuichiro Tamura’s Milky Mountain at the Govett-Brewster, by Vanessa Crofskey