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Featuring an essay by Tyler Cann, Len Lye Curator, this publication gives an overview on this rare exhibition where five different versions of Fountain and a shimmering version called firebush come together simultaneously, allowing viewers a new perspective on Lye's work.

Individual Happiness Now! weaves four decades of Lye's work around his theories of art, life, politics and happiness. This vibrant catalogue by Len Lye Curator, Tyler Cann, illustrates Lye's writings, drawings, paintings and photography, films and kinetic sculptures featured in the exhibition and discusses Lye's all-encompassing theory.

Formerly PR9258.

The primordial origins of the universe and the celluar processes of the body collide in the work of Len Lye. Amoebic shapes populate Lye's drawings, films, painting and sculpture from the 1920s to the 1970s. Gestating, absorbing and dividing, they reference our cosmic, psychological and biological development, linking notions of time (khronos) and the body (soma). Curated by Tyler Cann, Len Lye: Chronosome featured some of Lye's first and last works including Lye's first animated film Tusalava (1929) , a mythological narrative of the primordial beginnings of organic life. This catalogue, available at the Govett-Brewster Art and Design Shop features new writing by Len Lye Curator Tyler Cann.