Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary artwork museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery gets middle investment from the New Plymouth District Council. Govett-Brewster is recognised the world over for current artwork. The gallery opened on 22 February 1970, in what changed into then the unused Regent cinema building. The gallery agree with changed into hooked up with budget talented through Monica Brewster The Len Lye Centre is an extension to the Govett-Brewster, constructed to show the works of Len Lye. It turned into designed with the aid of Andrew Patterson of Pattersons Associates, New Zealand.

It is domestic to the records and studio collection of the Len Lye Foundation. Born in Christchurch in 1901 and largely self-educated, Len Lye was pushed with the aid of a lifelong passion for motion, power and the opportunity of composing them as a form of art. Lye's interests took him a long way from New Zealand; after sojourns inside the South Pacific, Lye moved to London after which New York, where he became known as an intensely creative film-maker and kinetic sculptor.