Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard
Castle Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0AQ
England
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Telephone
01223 748100
Fax
01223 324377
Kettle's Yard is a house with a permanent collection of 20th century art and a gallery showing a changing programme of 20th century and contemporary art exhibitions.
Kettle's Yard House was created by Jim Ede, once a curator at the Tate Gallery. It is more than an art collection, the building and the way in which the art and other objects are displayed are unique. In many ways Kettle's Yard House retains the characteristics of a real home and visitors are welcome to sit in the chairs, read the books and enjoy the art works.
Kettle's Yard Gallery enjoys an international reputation for its innovative exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. A wide variety of exhibitions are shown every year including major retrospectives of modern artists as well as first UK showings by contemporary international artists.
Venue Type:
Gallery, Historic house or home
In the Kettle's Yard House there is a collection of 20th century art including paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and David Jones and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. For a list of all the artists represented in the collection see our website. Also on show in the house are the furniture, ceramics and natural objects collected by Jim Ede.
Collection details
Music, Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Archives, Architecture
Key artists and exhibits
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Alfred Wallis, David Jones, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, William Congdon, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, Naum Gabo, George Kennethson, Joan Miro (represented by one work), Lucy Rie, Italo Valenti, William Staite Murray, Elisabeth Vellacott.
Beauty and Revolution: The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay
- 6 December 2014 — 1 March 2015 *on now
The Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) first met and began to correspond with Jim Ede, the founder of Kettle’s Yard in 1964. In the same year, a group of Cambridge students had started to exhibit and write about his work. Among the students was Professor Stephen Bann who went on to become an expert on the artist.
The exhibition, devised by Professor Bann and coming from his private collection, traces Ian Hamilton Finlay’s artistic development from the poems that made him Britain’s most internationally acclaimed concrete poet to the images and texts that marked his engagement with the ideas of the French Revolution. It also presents his famous garden, Little Sparta, in photographs and film.
Visitors can explore this collection of often vividly coloured and beautifully designed standing and folding poems, prints, cards, emblems and inscriptions. Ian Hamilton Finlay’s works range from the witty and whimsical to the dark and thought provoking. Recurring themes include classical writers, maritime subjects, the French Revolution and war.
Website
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/2014/ihf/index.php
Circuit Gatherings
- 24 February 2015 7-8pm
15 – 25 years old and interested in the arts? Keen to pursue a career in the creative industry or develop your own arts project? Join us for lively monthly presentations and discussions with leading figures from the creative industries including practicing artists, curators and those working in the cultural sector.
Organised and hosted by the Circuit group.
Wysing Arts Centre:
27 January
Kettle’s Yard:
25 November & 24 February
Tuesdays: 7 – 8pm
Free
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Suitable for
- 14-15
- 16-17
- 18+
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Studio Sundays
- 8 February 2015 1-4pm
- 22 February 2015 1-4pm
Join us in the Learning Studio to make your own artwork inspired by our
exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play.
Free.
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Especially for children
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Try Your Hand in Orchard Park
- 9 February 2015 7:30-9pm
- 9 March 2015 7:30-9pm
Do you live in North Cambridge?
Park Arts Group and Kettle’s Yard invite you to join us at Orchard Park Community Centre for a creative chinwag. Artists from Kettle’s Yard will inspire you to Try Your Hand at a variety of art forms.
£3 per session, pay on the door.
No need to book in advance.
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£3 per session, pay on the door.
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Look, Make, Talk
- 3 February 2015 4:15-5:45pm
- 10 February 2015 4:15-5:45pm
- 24 February 2015 4:15-5:45pm
- 3 March 2015 4:15-5:45pm
Weekly after school art club continues with artists Alex Hirtzel and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs. Explore the themes of the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition, experiment with different materials and create unique artworks of your own.
Booking essential call 01223 748100 or http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=154&prodid=1826
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£55 course, all materials and refreshments provided.
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One-Day Poetry Workshop
- 31 January 2015 10am-4pm
Join lecturer Jenny Bavidge and poet Redell Olsen for a visual poetics workshop, which will take inspiration from Ian Hamilton Finlay. This day course offers you the chance to read and discuss a range of existing texts in relation to the exhibition and experiment with poetic form and a variety of media in your own writing.
Suitable for beginners. £30 course, all materials and lunch included.
Booking essential - – 01223 748100 or http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=154&prodid=1825
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£30 course, all materials and lunch included.
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Evening Lectures: Ian Hamilton Finlay: the Cambridge Connections
- 3 February 2015 From 7pm
Professor Stephen Bann, curator of Beauty and Revolution and internationally
renowned expert on Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Special opening of the exhibition from 6pm.
Please book – 01223 748100 or http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=154&prodvarid=92
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£6, (£4), students free
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Jonathan Plowright, piano
- 5 February 2015 From 8pm
Bach/ Busoni: Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland' BWV659 & Chorale Prelude 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' BWV639
Brahms: Six pieces, Op.118 & Variations on a Hungarian Melody, Op.21 No.2
Liszt: Funerailles S173/7
Schumann: Carnaval, Op.9
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=67
8pm, doors 7.30pm
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
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Evening Lectures: Kettle’s Yard House Artist: Henry Moore and open-air sculpture
- 17 February 2015 From 7pm
Dr Jennifer Powell, Senior Curator at Kettle’s Yard and curator of the
Henry Moore display at Tate Britain.
Please book – 01223 748100 or http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=154&prodvarid=91
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£6, (£4), students free
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Light Source: Twilight at the Museums
- 18 February 2015 5-6:30pm, 7-8:30pm
Explore shadows and reflections in the house and create your own light effects in the learning studio, with artist Isabella Martin.
Free family workshop – booking essential call 01223 748100
To see all the Twilight at Museums events go to cam.ac.uk/museums
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Suitable for
- Family friendly
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Kafka Fragments Aisha Orazbayeva, violin & Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano
- 19 February 2015 From 7:30pm
“profoundly radical and inventive”
(The Sound Projector). The duo of internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg and upcoming violinist Aisha Orazbayeva perform Gyorgy Kurtag’s masterpiece Kafka Fragments – 40 tiny pieces based on writings by Franz Kafka.
8pm, doors 7.30pm
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£8 (£5 students)
Heath String Quartet
- 26 February 2015 From 8pm
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6
Tippett: String Quartet No.1
Dvořák: String Quartet in G major, Op.106
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=68
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
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Lunchtime Talks: Open Archives: Ian Hamilton Finlay Letters
- 26 February 2015 From 12:30pm
Open Archives: Ian Hamilton Finlay Letters
Frieda Midgley, Archivist
Free
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
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The Practice Sessions
- 27 February 2015 6-8pm
Start your weekend with something different with this special evening event.
A final chance to see the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition, followed by a screening of More Love than Money, a short film by Jared Schiller. The film explores the Kettle’s Yard inspired home of collector Ronnie Duncan, whose collection includes many works by Ian Hamilton Finlay.
£5 per session, includes a free drink. Bookable in advance or tickets usually available on the door.
Call 01223 748100 or http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=154&prodid=1827
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£5 per session, includes a free drink. Bookable in advance or tickets usually available on the door.
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Orbis Piano Trio
- 5 — 3 March 2015 From 8pm
The Jim and Helen Ede Concert
Kettle’s Yard ensemble in residence, 2014-2015
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 'Ghost Trio'
Rachmaninov: Trio Elegiaque No.1
Dvořák: Piano Trio in F minor, Op.65
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=58
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
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New Rhythms
- 12 March 2015 From 8pm
The premiere of a newly commissioned dance and music work by choreographer Malgorzata Dzierzon and composer Kate Whitley, in response to New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Art, Dance and Movement in London 1911–15.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=95
8pm, doors 7.30pm
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£8 (£5 students)
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The Multi-Story Orchestra
- 23 April 2015 From 8pm
The Michael Harrison Concert. “forget fusty concert halls, the future of music is emerging in a municipal Car Park” (The Times). Works including Grisey’s seminal Periodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques performed by The Multi-Story Orchestra, who are based in a disused Car Park in Peckham, conducted by Christopher Stark.
To book call 01223 748100
8pm, doors 7.30pm
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£8 (£5 students)
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Orbis Piano Trio
- 30 April 2015 From 8pm
Martinů: Bergerettes H275
Kapralova: April Preludes
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=60
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
Website
Alexander Ullman, piano
- 7 May 2015 From 8pm
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op.10 No.1
Schumann: Fantasie Op.17
Chopin: Ballade No.4 Op.52
Chopin: Mazurkas Op.24
Stravinsky: Three movements from Petrushka
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=71
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
Website
Lawrence Power, viola & Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
- 14 May 2015 From 8pm
Brahms: Three song transcriptions
Koechlin: Viola Sonata (1915)
Prokofiev: Eight pieces from ‘Romeo & Juliet’
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=61
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
Website
Chamber Concerts
- 14 May 2015 From 8pm
Brahms: Three song transcriptions
Koechlin: Viola Sonata (1915)
Prokofiev: Eight pieces from ‘Romeo & Juliet’
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
£16 (£6 full time students)
To book call 01223 748100 or visit the website
Website
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music/chamber/index.php
Krysia Osostowicz, violin & Julian Jacobson, piano & clarinet (tbc)
- 21 May 2015 From 8pm
Mozart: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, K 498 'Kegelstatt'
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale - suite for clarinet, violin and piano
Concerts begin at 8pm, doors open at 7.30pm.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=65
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£16 (£6).
Website
Ghosts and Mirrors
- 28 May 2015 From 8pm
Recital by upcoming star of contemporary piano Richard Uttley, including Lindberg’s Piano Jubilees, Thomas Adès’ Mazurkas, a new work by Matthew Kaner, and Day Break Shadows Flee by the recently appointed Master of the Queens’ Music Judith Weir.
8pm, doors 7.30pm
To book call 01223 748100
From July 2015 Kettle's Yard House and Gallery will be closed to visitors. This is to enable the completion of a major building project to greatly improve facilities for visitors, artists and children and young people. For more information, including about our plans for activities offsite, please see www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Admission
£8 (£5)
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Lucy Landymore
- 11 June 2015 From 8pm
Solo percussion recital by Cambridge born Lucy Landymore, winner of 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year Percussion section, including the notorious ‘The Black Page’ by Frank Zappa.
To book call 01223 748100 or visit
http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=149&prodvarid=99
Admission
£8 (£5)
Website
Glitter and Glue
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/education/kidsfamilies.html
Drop-in art sessions for pre-school children and their carers. Sessions are on the 4th Thursday of the month 10.00-11.30.
How to obtain
Sessions are £2.50 per child. There is no need to book but places are available on a first come first served basis.
Tuesday Studio
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/education/young.html
Artist Lara Jones leads practical art workshops for young people aged 11-14 years, responding to Kettle's Yard exhibitions and their permanent collection. Sessions are Tuesday afternoons 16.30-18.00.
How to obtain
Advance booking is esssential and it costs £42 per term (£32 conc).
Wednesday Club
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/education/kidsfamilies.html
A weekly Wednesday art club for 8-11 year olds to try out sculpture, drawing and painting and to explore modern art. Materials and refreshements are provided. Bookings for the Summer term 2009 (from April 29 2009) are now being taken. Workshops are 16.15-17.45.
How to obtain
Advance booking is essential. £56 for the term (£42 conc.)Email or call for further details or to book: mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk, 01223 748100.
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