Digital Artist 'In Residence' Sorawit Songsataya | Len Lye Film-making Practice | Save the Date - Brett Graham Exhibition Opening - 5 Dec 2020 No images? Click here INVITATION: Exhibition Opening - Sat 8 Aug 2020 Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison Opening event free | All welcome Regular Len Lye Cinema
Screenings* | 11 am and 2 pm 8 August will mark all of the galleries in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre being open to the public again – the first time since lockdown. Join us to celebrate the official opening. We will debut work by acclaimed US-based artist Candice Lin, whose first solo show in New Zealand examines histories of borders and segregation, racial profiling and conspiracy theories, bodies and remedies, viruses and war, as well as a new commission by the first of three Govett-Brewster 2020 Artists ‘In Residence’, Sorawit Songsataya. It will also launch The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid, which celebrates Len Lye's acclaimed film-making practice, using new methods to present the artist's colourful, experimental films within the gallery environment. An accompanying programme of Lye's most well-known films will also be screened in the Len Lye Cinema. There will be a curator tour of the new exhibition at 2pm, offering insight behind the works in Lin’s exhibition, followed by an official opening in the evening, including a pre-recorded speech from the artist herself, a chance to see a short film giving an inside look of Lin's LA studio, plus a launch demonstration of one of the most anticipated works on show – a fully-functioning trebuchet. Sorawit Songsataya: A new commission by the first of Len Lye: The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid A celebration of the artist's acclaimed film work; this exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of Lye’s film practice ever seen at the Govett-Brewster, using new methods to present Lye's colourful, experimental films in the gallery environment. SAVE THE DATE: 5 Dec 2020 Brett Graham: Candice Lin, A Robot Spoke What My Father Wrote, 2019, Photo Ian Byers-Gamber Sorawit Songsataya, Rumours (Mermaid) (detail), 2020 Len Lye - Trade Tattoo -1937 - Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and the British Postal Museum and Archive - From material preserved and made available by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision Manukau 2020, video animation still, Brett Graham and Ken Gorrie, Animation Research Ltd. *normal ticket entry applies for regular cinema screenings |