Kettle's Yard

Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the key questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.

On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 170 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old.
Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.

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Free

From April to July visitors to Kettle’s Yard will have the opportunity to see ‘guests’ from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully placed amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light.
The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar.
“It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013
Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May.

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Free

House Guests
Heather Lane, Librarian & Keeper of Collections, The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute and students from the Critical Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art.
Please note there is limited capacity for the House Guests talks, attendance will be on a first come first served basis.

When

1:10-1:40pm

Website

http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Reflect on the idea of collections and collectors with our House Guests project and artist Janine Woods.

Drop in post-work, pre-pub £8 per session, pay on the door.
Start your weekend with an informal evening of art-making, short tours, music and performance. Each month we will offer a different combination of artforms and ideas for you to sample. No need to book in advance, admission includes one drink (then pay bar).

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• Not suitable for children

When

6-8pm

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£8 per session

Website

hppt://www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Tour with Director of Kettle's Yard, Andrew Nairne.

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When

1pm-1:45am

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Free