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Devon Street West and Queen Street
New Plymouth 4342
New Zealand

July 31, 2020

Candice Lin, A Robot Spoke What My Father Wrote, 2019. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.

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Candice Lin
Pigs and Poison
Len Lye
The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid
Sorawit Songsataya
Rumours (Mermaid)

January 28, 2020

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Announcing curatorial appointments and seeking a Deputy Director

December 2, 2019

Working drawing of Ruth Buchanan with John Geehan and Kelly McCosh The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019.

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Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong

August 1, 2019

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Seeking four curators

February 7, 2019

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New Co-directors announced

December 6, 2018

Karen Clark, Kim Kahu, Joanne Ngaia, Audra Potaka (assisted by Maureen Lander and Jan Barratt), Maureen Lander, Te Mauri Mana Wāhine, 2018. Installation view in Maureen Lander, Flat-Pack Whakapapa, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth.

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2019 programme highlights

August 31, 2018

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Seeking director

July 24, 2018

Cover of Erika Balsom's An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea.

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New publication: An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea by Erika Balsom

August 23, 2016

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New season of exhibitions

April 18, 2016

Back left to right: Sarah Wall, Simon Rees, Paul Brobbel. Front left to right: Sophie O'Brien, Chloe Cull, Lisa Berndt. Photo: Pip Guthrie.

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New team

December 16, 2015

Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles. Photo: Arthur Evans.

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Sister Corita's Summer of Love
Len Lye: Flora and Fauna

November 17, 2015

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Exhibitions and Collections Lead

June 21, 2015

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Two newly created roles

April 26, 2015

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Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre opening July 2015

December 12, 2014

Left to right: the new Len Lye Assistant Curator Sarah Wall, Govett-Brewster/Len Lye Centre Director Simon Rees, and Len Lye Curator Paul Brobbel, with the Len Lye Centre under construction in the background. Photo: Pip Guthrie.

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Sarah Wall appointed as assistant curator

July 28, 2014

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Seeking Assistant Len Lye Curator

March 22, 2014

Reuben Paterson, The Golden Bearing, 2014. Photo: Bryan James.

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Re-opening in 2015

September 26, 2013

Ann Shelton, doublethink ‘We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity’ Neil Roberts, 1982 (detail), 2013. Digital photograph, 1184 x 841 mm. Courtesy the artist.

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Ann Shelton site-specific project

June 3, 2013

Len Lye Centre 3D model. Patterson Associates Ltd.

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Seeking new Director

December 15, 2012

Len Lye, Wind Wand, 1960. Photograph Maurie Logue. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation.

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Len Lye: The New Yorker

November 24, 2012

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Senior Curator position

July 10, 2012

Gigi Scaria, Someone left a horse on the shore, 2009. Courtesy the artist.

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Sub-Topical Heat: New art from South Asia

March 10, 2012

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True Stories: Scripted Realities

December 10, 2011

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Vincent Ward: Breath – the fleeting intensity of life

June 9, 2011

Fiona Pardington, “Portrait of a life cast of Koe (painted),” Timor 2010.
Courtesy of the artist and the Musée de l’Homme, (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle), Paris.

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Fiona Pardington’s The pressure of sunlight falling at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

March 7, 2011

Brook Andrew, “The Cell,” 2010.
Vinyl with fan blower 300 x 1250 x 600 cm.*

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Stealing the Senses

December 6, 2010

Jim Allen, Contact part 1 ‘Computor Dance’, 1974.
Photo by Bryony Dalefield.*

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Points of Contact: Jim Allen, Len Lye, Helio Oiticica

November 13, 2010

Alex Monteith, “Composition with No.3 Squadron Exercise Blackbird for three-channel video installation,” 2010.
RNZAF pilots Jane & Reichardt and crewman Tauai taking off in No.05 Iroquois at Dip Flat as part of the 3-ship flight that comprises the artwork (during Ex Blackbird 2010).
Photo by Sarah Munro.

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Alex Monteith’s Accelerated Geographies

December 6, 2009

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Len Lye

June 22, 2009

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Jin Jiangbo

December 18, 2008

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Lee Mingwei

September 13, 2008

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Peter Robinson

March 22, 2008

Jayce Salloum
‘untitled’ part 4: terra (in)cognita
2005 (video still)

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Bill Culbert, Francis Upritchard, Jayce Salloum and Len Lye

October 14, 2007

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Activating Korea; Tides of collective action

January 20, 2007

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Gabriel Kuri

August 15, 2006

Darcy Lange, Study of a freezing worker gutting cattle,
Waitara Freezing Works, New Zealand 1974

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Darcy Lange: study of an artist at work

July 27, 2005

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seeks new Director

June 27, 2005

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Lee Bul: 2005 International Artist in Residence

September 15, 2004

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Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces

March 18, 2004

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Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan

December 18, 2003

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Bloom: mutation, toxicity and the sublime

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