The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary art museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery receives core funding from the New Plymouth District Council.
Govett-Brewster is recognised internationally for contemporary art, and has received many awards. In 2009, the gallery was honoured by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand with their Governor's Award.[1]
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Govett brewster's main theme is stealing the senses. It fetures Brook Andrew’s large-scale inflatable installation The Cell 2010, a Breast Stupa Cookery performance and installation by Pinaree Sanpitak and a sound and video installation by duo Sonia Leber and David Chesworth.
Perfumes, vaporisers and de-humidifiers form the base of Dane Mitchell’s exhibition Radiant Matter Part 1. Engaging with the notion of the ‘vaporous’, a liminal state between matter and gas that teeters on invisibility, Mitchell is interested in transitional and ephemeral elements that waver amongst gas, liquid and solid forms. Vapour condenses into water and turns back into vapour in a perfect cycle; the gallery’s air humidity develops concrete forms.
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is home to the archives and studio collection of the Len Lye Foundation.[2] Born in Christchurch in 1901 and largely self-educated, Lye was driven by a life-long passion for motion, energy and the possibility of composing them as a form of art. Lye's interests took him far from New Zealand; after sojourns in the South Pacific, Lye moved to London and then New York, where he became known as an intensely creative film-maker and kinetic sculptor.