Win Win for all...

Win Win for all.

As a long time critic of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery for not being commercial enough and relying too much on ratepayer funding. It is great to here the Gallery has formed a collaboration with Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI ) to show case the Len Lye Collection in Melbourne Australia.
The cost of $1million to fund the exhibition which includes freight, insurance and promotion all being picked up by (ACMI) themselves, and not the New Plymouth ratepayers. New Plymouth gets all the benefits of the exposure the Len Lye exhibition will create for us out on the International world stage, being the home to the Len Lye collection. Exposure we could never have been able to curate by having the Len Lye collection displayed here in New Plymouth or afford the promotion costs that go with this type of exhibition, the international acclaimed Len Lye collection deserves. A Win Win for everybody and I congratulate the Govett- Brewster Art Gallery for their wisdom and foresight to collaborate with other world Gallery's like (ACMI) who want to pay and display such collections. At the same time helping New Plymouth and the Govett- Brewster-Art Gallery financially in tough economic times while at the same time putting New Plymouth and the collection on the International stage. We owe it too all those involved a big thank you. Lets see more of it. We might have other collections stored at the Gallery, that other world galleries would gladly pay to see at their expense. If this is done right what a money spinner for the long suffering New Plymouth ratepayers , the galleries art collections could turn out to be.

Rusty Kane