Ruth Buchanan and the Govett Brewster art collection

The summer exhibition is the first event to mark the 50th year of New Zealand's contemporary art museum in New Plymouth. It's also a critical interrogation of the Govett-Brewster Collection, showing artworks from 190 artists. 
The exhibition titled The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong is developed by New Plymouth-born artist Ruth Buchanan (b.1980), of Te Atiawa, Taranaki and Pākehā descent, living in Berlin. Last year Buchanan won New Zealand's most prestigious contemporary art award, the biennial Walters Prize, for a mixed media installation.

Ruth Buchanan Photo Stephen Wells

Fiona Clark Sharon at Mojos Nightclub Auckland 1975

Ruth Buchanan My I I I be broke 2019 Hopkinson Mossman Wellington Photo Harry Culy

Gretchen Albrecht Magenta Yellow 1982

Jim Allen New Zealand Environment No. 5 1969

Peter Robinson Inflation theory 1 2001

Tom Kreisler Old and new 1983

Maree Horner Diving Board 1974-1998

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