The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre acknowledges with great sadness the passing of kuia Maata Wharehoka (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Kuia).

Anna Briers, Curator of Len Lye & Contemporary Art at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, will be curating the highly anticipated BEYOND sector at the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair.

Creative New Zealand and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre have teamed up to offer a new Pacific Aniva Artist Residency in 2025, which will see an Aotearoa-based Pacific artist or practitioner who identifies as LGBTQIA+/MVPFAFF+ gain a paid, three-month fellowship based at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre in Ngāmotu New Plymouth.  

The Gallery and its wider leadership group have welcomed two new leaders – Lleah Smith in the role of Cultural Experiences Public Programmes and Learning Lead, and Frith Williams as Museum Lead, Puke Ariki.

The Len Lye Foundation has announced the first recipient of the Evan Webb Award, a research grant offered to support new contributions to Len Lye scholarship: Wellington-based academic Raymond Spiteri.

The Gallery team are saddened by the passing of Dr George Mason ONZM, a great supporter of arts learning through the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, and a major philanthropic contributor to knowledge and learning programmes and institutions across Aotearoa.

The Govett-Brewster team extends our congratulations to artist Sorawit Songsataya, whose works Ranad (2024) and Body Language (2024) are featured in this year’s Busan Biennale, alongside their work Shoulders of Giants (2023) and a new installation.

We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Gary Cocker.

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery's 2024 exhibition Set Dressing presented three generations of artists, examining photography’s capacity to harness, distil, and complicate desire. A new publication builds on this conversation.

The Evan Webb award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist and Foundation Director Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye.

A new exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre presents work by four indigenous artists from south and eastern Taiwan, continuing long-running conversations between the Gallery and artists from the edge of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean).

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery welcomes two new exhibitions - Fibrous Soul and Set Dressing into the gallery from 2 March; collectively exploring ideas of change, transition, relationships and realms beyond the physical.

The Govett-Brewster Foundation’s campaign to support the Gallery’s acquisition of Brett Graham’s monumental sculpture Cease Tide of Wrong-doing has been a success, with the final goal reached, and the work secured for public display.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre Director Dr Zara Stanhope moves into a new position with the Gallery’s owners and operators New Plymouth District Council from 1 November, 2023 that of Director, Cultural Enterprises.

Help the Govett-Brewster Foundation secure Brett Graham’s monumental sculpture Cease Tide of Wrong-Doing for the Gallery's permanent collection with the purchase of a raffle ticket. 

New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has announced that Anna Briers will join the Gallery as Len Lye & Contemporary Art Curator.

A new award, in honour of the Len Lye Foundation Director and artist Evan Webb (1952-2023),
will continue Evan’s contribution to the research and restoration of the work of artist
Len Lye (1901-1980).

Storm, an ensemble of sculptures by Len Lye never exhibited in New Zealand before, will go on show at NPDC’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre this weekend.

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre in Ngāmotu New Plymouth is seeking an experienced curator to forge new exhibitions, conversations and audiences using the work of Len Lye.

A new landmark survey exhibition of Toi Māori from the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Collection opens on 5 August, spanning more than 50 years of contemporary Māori art practice.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Ringahāpai Kaitakatū Ngā Toi Māori - Assistant Curator Contemporary Māori Art Taarati Taiaroa has been named a Momentum delegate for Edinburgh’s famed August festivals season.