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A Handful of Objects

sjr81 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:25:53 +0000

A Handful of Objects, developed in conjunction with teachers and young people, aims to introduce the objects to new audiences while Kettle’s Yard is closed as part of a multi-million pound redevelopment that will transform its gallery spaces and house a new, four-floor education wing and cafe.

̽��ֱ��objects range from paintings and ceramics to natural objects displayed within the Kettle’s Yard house.

̽��ֱ��five objects are:

‘Red Stone Dancer’ a sculpture by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska,
‘Five Ships – Mount’s Bay’ a painting by Alfred Wallis,
‘March 1962 (Argos)’ a painting by Ben Nicholson,
‘Bowl (aka Wave/Shiny White)’ by Lucie Rie
‘Spiral of Stones’ an arrangement of pebbles by Kettle’s Yard founder Jim Ede.

Lucy Wheeler, Assistant Education Officer at Kettle’s Yard, said: "A Handful of Objects showcases five exceptional works from the Kettle's Yard collection. ̽��ֱ��beauty and importance of the objects is illustrated through high quality images, films and archive material. I hope visitors find the resource easy and enjoyable to use and hope they will add their thoughts online to create a wider discussion about this rich collection.”

Kettle’s Yard hopes to add more objects to A Handful of Objects in the future, making other famous objects from its collection of 1,200 objects.

A Handful of Objects allows viewers to experience artworks close up through high-quality images and the option to zoom-in, as well as 360-degree carousels to see sculptures and ceramics in the round. ̽��ֱ��process of making the artworks is also examined through sound clips, sketchbooks and images of the artist at work.

Throughout the resource there are options to share information through Facebook and Twitter – as well as inviting people’s thoughts and comments about the artworks themselves.

Robyn Llewellyn, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund East of England, who funded the work, said: “We are delighted that, thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to fund this innovative new resource that will allow many more people to explore objects from the collection at Kettle’s Yard and learn about their fascinating histories.”

Kettle’s Yard is the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house with a remarkable collection of modern art and a gallery that hosts modern and contemporary art exhibitions.

Five key objects from the world-class collections at Kettle’s Yard have been made available online to view through film, sound, photographs and 360 degree views.

A Handful of Objects showcases exceptional works from the Kettle's Yard collection.

Lucy Wheeler

Alfred Wallis Film

Kettle's Yard

Detail from Five Ships - Mounts Bay (1928) by Alfred Wallis

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Last chance to see Kettle’s Yard for two years

jeh98 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:43:11 +0000

As well as a last chance to see critically acclaimed exhibition New Rhythms, visitors will also be able to talk to the archivist in the house and artist Whitney McVeigh in St Peter’s Church next door. Kettle’s Yard’s youngest visitors have been submitting drawings of dancers inspired by New Rhythms and these drawings will be on display in the learning studio where visitors on the day can also take part.

̽��ֱ��house and gallery will then be closed from 22 June for a major redevelopment that will provide a new Education Wing, improvements to the exhibition galleries, and a café for visitors.

̽��ֱ��weekend’s events at Kettle’s Yard are also part of Castle Hill Open Day, which is returning for its fourth year. A host of free events are taking place indoors and out exploring the history, heritage and art of Castle Hill.

Venues on Castle Hill will open their doors for free for the day and there will be tours, talks, creative family activities and more with historians, artists and archaeologists. There will be tours of the Nuclear Bunker, Castle Mound and Roman Cambridge; the opportunity to make your own mini summer garden with the Museum of Cambridge; and CAMRA will once again be running their historic pub trail.

New for this year will be pop-up dances performed by North Cambridge Academy students, and tours of the beautiful gardens and the New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College. ̽��ֱ��collection has over 400 works of art by women artists and is regarded as the most significant collection of its kind in Europe.

Another new feature is the Cabinet of Curiosities, a visual and audio collection of wondrous things created by artist Jane Watt with the help of over 500 people from North West Cambridge. Those who visited Jane’s bright blue touring studio in autumn 2014 brought along objects and were able to watch as they were recorded as a cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of photography. Visitors will be able to see an exhibition of original cyanotypes and a short film about the project.

Refreshments will be available throughout the day and across the sites including Steak and Honour’s locally sourced burgers, freshly brewed coffee from Beanissimo and the Vintage Cafe at the Museum of Cambridge.

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Inset images: visitors enjoying Castle Hill Open Day (Josh Murfitt).

Special events on 20 June mark the last weekend that Kettle’s Yard will be open before closing for a major redevelopment.

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Josh Murfitt

Kettle's Yard

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Gaudier-Brzeska show marks centenary of his death

sjr81 — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:48:43 +0000

Gaudier-Brzeska moved permanently to London in January 1911. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern sculpture as one of the key members of the Vorticist movement and by influencing a later generation of sculptors.

His precocious artistic talent was cut short by his death at the age of 23 while fighting for the French army in Neuville St Vaast, France, in 1915. As Ezra Pound wrote in 1916: ‘A great spirit has been among us, and a great artist is gone’.

̽��ֱ��exhibition, NEW RHYTHMS Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Art Dance and Movement in London 1911-1915, is the first to explore the artist’s engagement with dance and movement. New Rhythms brings together sculpture, drawing, photography, film, and archive material, combining the strengths of Kettle’s Yard’s sculpture and drawing collections with important loans from national and international institutions.

̽��ֱ��exhibition includes work by Gaudier-Brzeska’s contemporaries David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein, Percy Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Auguste Rodin, Helen Saunders and others who engaged with the subject of dance.

Kettle’s Yard holds one of the largest collections of sculptures and drawings by Gaudier-Brzeska, acquired by the creator of Kettle’s Yard, Jim Ede in 1929. Ede went on to write the first seminal biography of Gaudier- Brzeska ‘Savage Messiah’ in 1930, using the letters that were exchanged between Gaudier-Brzeska and his partner Sophie Brzeska.

New Rhythms takes as its starting point Gaudier‐ Brzeska’s two contrasting sculptures Red Stone Dancer and Dancer. ̽��ֱ��exhibition looks in detail at the inspirations for the two sculptures of 1913, using them as studies for a wider exploration of the artist’s interests in the subject and the cultural milieu in which he was working.

For example, his engagement with the dynamic performances of the Ballets Russes is brought to the fore through his bronze Firebird (1912). As well as exploring dance, New Rhythms will investigate the artist’s wider fascination with motion, the physical dynamism of bodily movement, and wrestling.

̽��ֱ��new dance trends that exploded onto pre‐war London stages and screens such as Apache dance from Paris and Tango, and performances by the Ballets Russes, will be represented through photographs, printed sources and film.

̽��ֱ��show culminates by asking how Gaudier‐Brzeska’s dancers can inspire new rhythms now, through a contemporary dance and music commission. ̽��ֱ��work by Malgorzata Dzierzon, performed to new music commissioned from emerging composer Kate Whitley, will feature in the exhibition through film.

This will be the final exhibition at Kettle’s Yard before closing for a major development of the site and offers a chance for visitors to enjoy the house and an exhibition intimately linked to it and the permanent collection. It closes on June 21, 2015.

For more about the development plans and off site activity visit www.kettlesyard.co.uk.

̽��ֱ��exhibition will tour with selected works to Harewood House, Leeds, from 11 July to 1 November 2015 and is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.

From March 17, Kettle’s Yard will present a major exhibition to mark the centenary of the death in the First World War of the French-born sculptor and draughtsman Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915).

A great spirit has been among us, and a great artist is gone.

Ezra Pound

Kettle's Yard

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Black & White poster (aka Boxers), 1911

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