LEN LYE CENTRE PROGRESS UPDATE Taking shape and on

LEN LYE CENTRE PROGRESS UPDATE
Taking shape and on target
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye
Centre building project is taking shape and on
target to open mid-2015.
With 14 metre-high concrete walls erected,
the Len Lye Centre on the corner of Queen
and Devon St is now at its highest point. A
steel skeleton is emerging to give structure to
interior gallery walls and the archive and
cinema now have floors, walls and ceilings.
The steel structure will also provide the
support needed for the 14 metre-high, wavy
exterior pre-cast concrete panels from which
the outer stainless steel facade will hang.
Earthquake strengthening work on the
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery building has
begun, as well as the installation of a new
climate control system, necessary to ensure
the building maintains museum level status.
Project Director - Len Lye Centre
Gaye Batty
FUNDRAISING UPDATE
Construction target met, fundraising
continues
A recent grant from the New Zealand Lottery
Grants Board of $2.695 million for the Len
Lye Centre, ensures that the $10m budget for
constructing the centre plus $1.5m for fit-out
of both the centre and its cinema has been
met.
Our energies will now be focused on
attracting funding to maximise efficiency at
the museum and launching with a dynamic
and engaging exhibition, cinema and
education programme.
Fundraising continues towards enhancing
visitor experience and ensuring the art
museum is a magnet for visitors and spend in
the New Plymouth city and Taranaki region.
Len Lye Centre Trust chair, Kinsley Sampson
We have had donations for 19 of the 33
Lasting Legacy Panels, with each donor
electing up to five words to be permanently
etched into the stainless steel panels.
Our team is keen to accept any speaking
opportunity and can respond at short notice.
To date we have spoken to 14 groups, with
several others in the pipeline.
Funds to date have been received from:
$1m – TSB Community Trust, 2009
$4m – Ministry for Arts Culture and Heritage
Regional Museum Policy Fund, 2011
$0.5m – Lotteries’ Environment and Heritage
Fund, 2011
$3m – Sole Founding Partner, Todd Energy,
2011
$0.324m - Private donors as of March 2013
$2.695m - New Zealand Lottery Grants Board
Significant Projects Fund, March 2014
More than $324,000 has been received or
committed from groups and individuals,
ranging from $100,000 to $5, including the 19
Lasting Legacy Panels.
Len Lye Centre Trust Chair
Kinsley Sampson
SPIRIT OF LEN EVENTS
New Zealanders in New York on art and
culture tour
Art-loving restaurateur Terry Parkes is
sharing his insider knowledge of New York
this week as he hosts an arts and culture tour
for Len Lye enthusiasts.
The contingent of mostly New Plymouth
people and with a connection to GovettBrewster Art Gallery or Len Lye, are in New
York this week to experience the city. They
left from New Zealand on Monday 5 May and
return on Friday 16 May.
The tour is set to raise about $20,000 towards
enhancing the visitor experience at the
contemporary art museum when it opens in
2015.
Terry Parkes is hosting a tour to New York from New Zealand
House of Travel and Mr Parkes have worked
together to establish the tour as a gift to arts
and culture in New Plymouth.
The tour was fully subscribed at the
expressions-of-interest meeting in December
last year.
The tour includes VIP passes to a Len Lye
cocktail party at The Drawing Center on
Tuesday night (New York time) and the
launch of the Frieze Art Fair.
To find out about upcoming Spirit of Len
events call us on
06 759 6715 or email [email protected]
SPIRIT OF LEN EVENTS
Boutique Brews and BBQ a great success
A fun and successful night raised more than
$12,000 towards the Len Lye Centre at the
Spirit of Len Boutique Brews and BBQ.
Held at the Waiau Country Estate on Friday 4
April, the event was supported generously by
the following sponsors:
Waiau Country Estate, Glen File (Baduzzi,
Auckland), Mike’s Organic Brewery, Poronui
Ranch, Dalgleish Jewellers, Precision
Helicopters, Mason Appliances,
Greenmeadows Meat, TSH, Gordon and
Netta Burnside, Terry Parkes and Nice Hotel,
Heather du Plessis Allan and Barry Soper.
The next event in Taranaki is a wine tasting
sponsored by Michael Radich Wine Merchant
and Brett Newell from Eurovintage in
Wellington with wines of significance donated
by six wineries. This will be held at the Nice
Hotel on Wednesday 21 May 2014.
LEN AROUND THE WORLD
Len Lye: Motion Sketch
17 April - 8 June 2014
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York
Len Lye: Motion Sketch includes a selection
of paintings, drawings and photograms, never
before seen in the United States. These are
presented alongside ephemera, drawings,
and written texts annotated with doodles,
book covers and film strip samples that
demonstrate Lye’s filmmaking techniques. In
The Drawing Center’s Lab gallery, an
Len Lye Drawing for Head Man of the Seed World, c. 1930, Ink extensive film program is presented on video,
on paper, 10 3/5 x 8 3/10 inches, Courtesy of the Len Lye
including such landmark films as Tusalava,
Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
1929; A Colour Box, 1935; and Free
Radicals, 1957/1979.
Len Lye: Motion Sketch is curated by Gregory
Burke, Executive Director/CEO of both the
Mendel Art Gallery and Remai Art Gallery of
Saskatchewan and Co-Curator of the
Montreal Biennale, 2014; and Tyler Cann,
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Columbus Museum of Art. Both Gregory and
Tyler are former Govett-Brewster staff.
This exhibition is presented by The Drawing
Center in collaboration with the GovettBrewster Art Gallery and draws primarily from
the Len Lye Foundation Collection.
Read more
Get your free digital copy of the catalogue
here
LEN AROUND THE WORLD
Len Lye: Wind Wands
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Art of Its Own Making
14 February - 20 August 2014
Len Lye’s Wind Wands feature in the group
exhibition Art of Its Own Making at The
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St Louis,
USA. The seven Wind Wands measure
between 10 and 12 metres tall, about a
quarter the height of New Plymouth’s Wind
Wand on the coastal walkway.
Paul Brobbel, Len Lye Curator said the group
of Wind Wands are a different experience for
the viewer, more like a ballet than the
swaying dance of the single Wand.
Len Lye Wind Wands, 1961/2013. Installation view at The
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO. Photo David
Johnson
The Pulitzer’s rooftop exhibition space is
viewable from the surrounding streets of St
Louis city which has a population of about
300,000. Pulitzer staff have said the Wind
Wands group is a popular work in the
exhibition that includes sculpture, installation,
film, video, and performance and sound
works by more than 12 artists.
The Wind Wands were commissioned by The
Pulitzer through the Len Lye Foundation.
LEN AROUND THE WORLD
Artist Max Gimblett talks of Len Lye on
TVNZ
TVNZ's New York correspondent Jack Tame
met with New Zealand-born/New York-based
artist Max Gimblett at the Len Lye exhibition
Motion Sketch.
Their chat about Len Lye (an old friend and
colleague of Max's) was broadcast from New
York on New Zealand's Breakfast Show, TV1
on Tuesday 6 May. You can see the segment
here (it starts at 1.03mins).
(L-R) TVNZ news correspondent Jack Tame and artist Max
Gimblett at The Drawing Center, New York
CONTACT THE GALLERY
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Office: Brougham House
50 Devon St West
New Plymouth
Postal: Private Bag 2025
New Plymouth 4340
Aotearoa New Zealand
Administration hours 9am–5pm Mon-Fri.
Tel +64 6 759 6060
Fax +64 6 758 0390
Email: [email protected]
www.govettbrewster.com
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