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Monica <strong>Brewster</strong><br />
Evenings<br />
MONICA BREWSTER<br />
EVENINGS, IN ASSOCIATION<br />
WITH GOVETT QUILLIAM –<br />
THE LAWYERS, BRING AN<br />
IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF<br />
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL<br />
ARTISTS AND CULTURAL<br />
THINKERS TO NEW PLYMOUTH.<br />
Ann Shelton<br />
Tuesday 28 January <strong>2014</strong><br />
6.00pm – 8.00pm<br />
The Mayfair<br />
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth<br />
Ann Shelton is recognised as one of New Zealand’s<br />
leading photographic artists. Tonight Shelton will<br />
discuss her art practice and <strong>Govett</strong>-<strong>Brewster</strong> project<br />
doublethink, closing Sunday 2 February <strong>2014</strong>. With a<br />
Master of Fine <strong>Art</strong>s from the University of British<br />
Columbia, Canada, Shelton has exhibited nationally<br />
and internationally and in 2010 was the overall<br />
winner of the CoCA Anthony Harper Contemporary<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Award.<br />
Shelton is Chair of Enjoy Public <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>,<br />
Wellington’s longest running artist-run space and is<br />
Associate Professor at Whiti o Rehua – The School<br />
of <strong>Art</strong>, Massey University Wellington. <strong>Art</strong>ist in<br />
Residence at the <strong>Govett</strong>-<strong>Brewster</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> in<br />
2004, Shelton has several works in the <strong>Govett</strong>-<br />
<strong>Brewster</strong> Collection.<br />
Free entry/cash bar<br />
Image: <strong>Gallery</strong> founder Monica <strong>Brewster</strong> (née <strong>Govett</strong>)<br />
Simon Rees<br />
Tuesday 25 February <strong>2014</strong><br />
6.00pm – 8.00pm<br />
The Mayfair<br />
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth<br />
Simon Rees is the new Director of the <strong>Govett</strong>-<br />
<strong>Brewster</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>/Len Lye Centre. Rees was the<br />
Head of Programming and Development at MAK, the<br />
Austrian Museum of Applied <strong>Art</strong>s/Contemporary<br />
<strong>Art</strong>s. He brings a wealth of curatorial, publishing and<br />
managerial experience to the <strong>Govett</strong>-<strong>Brewster</strong> as<br />
well as an understanding of the <strong>Gallery</strong>’s history and<br />
place in contemporary arts, having held the Curator<br />
of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> position at the <strong>Gallery</strong> from<br />
2002 to 2004. Rees was Curator for the<br />
Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania<br />
and editor of CAC/Interviu Magazine before taking<br />
on the role of head of the exhibitions department.<br />
In 2007 he was commissioner of the award-winning<br />
Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The<br />
<strong>Govett</strong>-<strong>Brewster</strong> is pleased to welcome Rees back<br />
to New Plymouth and the <strong>Gallery</strong> with his inaugural<br />
talk as Director.
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