Megan Rooney’s paintings have an irresistible life and energy. Each work tells a compelling story, poetically recalling the real, the remembered and the imagined – inviting visitors into their restless and pleasurable worlds. This exhibition includes an immersive mural across all four gallery walls, along with a display new paintings.
This tour is suitable for blind and visually impaired visitors. The tour is delivered in person by members of the Kettle’s Yard Learning Team and will include time within the exhibition spaces.
Through art, fashion, film, photography and more, Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body looks back on the pivotal moment when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a breakthrough that forever changed attitudes towards sporting achievement and celebrity, as well as body image and identity, nationalism and class, race and gender.
It's our second Saturday opening at the Whipple!
Explore a vast array of scientific instruments used to understand the world around us, from the Middle Ages to the present day. See fascinating tools used in astronomy, navigation, surveying, drawing and calculating – including sundials, mathematical instruments, early electrical apparatus and even a microscope bought by Darwin.
Free entry, Free School Lane, Cambridge
Recent understandings of the impact of human activity on the systems of the planet have highlighted the ways in which nature and humans are deeply entangled, calling the often extractive character of our relationship to the Earth into question.
Taking these ideas as her starting point, artist Rona Lee has created two new works, informed by research in the Sedgwick Museum’s archives and installed in the Whewell Mineral Gallery, that challenge the ways in which we normally view the items displayed there.
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world.
In June 2024, Rooney will spend three weeks making a new ‘mural’, painting directly on the walls of one of Kettle’s Yard’s two galleries. In the other gallery a group of new paintings will be exhibited for the first time.
The Butterfly Effect is the culmination of an engagement project to connect young people with University of Cambridge climate scientists. It is the first time the Museum has connected past mass extinctions with the current climate crisis, in the galleries.
During their residency at Kettle’s Yard as part of 20/20, Faramawy has been exploring the dynamics of hospitality by examining the relationship between the roles of host and guest.
Kettle's Yard are pleased to announce A G E N D A, a new series of artist projects that respond to global events and address pressing issues of our time.
The series aims to show how a single work of art can offer insight and understanding beyond the 24-hour news cycle.
The first project displays the photograph ‘Deti’ (2023) by Ukrainian artist Yevheniia Laptii (b. 1992, Kharkiv) on the second floor of Kettle’s Yard, outside the Research Space.
Enjoy exploring a selection of stunning, winning images from the 17th International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition (IGPOTY). These will be displayed in large format, outdoors, near the Grass Maze.
The exhibition will feature a selection of photographs from across the competition’s main categories as well as a selection of higher-placed winning photographs images from the ‘Discovery in Cambridge University Botanic Garden’ competition, run in partnership with IGPOTY.
Did you know that the word ‘posey’ means both ‘a little flower’ and ‘a little poem’? Explore the Botanic Garden in this self-guided trail and see how many poems you can spot. Student writers have joined with the Garden to give a voice to plants that people tend to walk past or overlook. Each little poem serves as a new kind of label, speaking to those of us who don’t understand much from a Latin scientific name alone. There is a link on the poem label that invites the reader to reply with their own poems.
