Kemp-Welch has been inspired by Cambridge pioneering company Pye Electronics, their history and remaining impact on the local community as well as Kettle’s Yard’s founder, Jim Ede’s own experiences of public broadcasting in the UK and USA.
This informal afternoon is an opportunity to use our exhibitions of women artists to explore motherhood both behind the work, as part of women artists practise and the subject of the work itself.
Accompanying children welcome.
FREE, booking required
Supported by MothersWhoMake.
The meeting is an opportunity to share local LGBTQI+ knowledge, histories and connections. It is a chance for interested locals to help plan a queer walking route in and around Cambridge to happen in spring 2019 and to suggest formats for a post-walk social event.
Kettle’s Yard has been selected by Ian Giles and Open Ramble East as a site with queer heritage.
This event is free, all LGBTQI+ people, friends and families are welcome. Booking is recommended
Refreshments provided
About Julie Mehretu
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970, and now resident in New York, Julie Mehretu is among the most highly regarded artists working today. A recent painting by the artist, Ghosthymn, was included in the exhibition Actions.
Explore ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Watch out for the spider!
These self-led drawing activities are designed to develop your drawing skills to discover new perspectives. Pop in for 5 minutes or stay all afternoon! Take you work home or display it for us, and other visitors
Drawing activities are suitable for all ages and abilities.
Over the past few months Lucy Steggals has been collaborating with community groups in North Cambridge. Through this collaboration they have devised creative activities for all ages to enjoy in this free event.
Join artist Sarah Evans to develop your drawing practise and strengthen your ideas and skills for developing your portfolio for GCSE, A-Level, Foundation courses or Degree.
We will also be joined by Chris Draper, Head of Illustration and member of the admission team at Anglia Ruskin University, and Rosalind Harrison, Sector Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Cambridge Regional College. They will give two short talks on Foundation courses and degree course and spend time with you to help shape your portfolio for successful submission.
Using a variety of materials, create your own layered work like Mehretu does in some of her large scale pieces. At Kettle’s Yard, explore the House and new building, thinking about these spaces as a starting point for your own collage. Work with artist Stephanie Hartick on your own artwork to take home.
Participants will be encouraged to think about the environment around them, at Kettle’s Yard, and in Cambridge, in new ways.
Tickets are £30 (£25 concessions), booking required
With Jennifer Powell (Head of Collection and Programme), Kyle Percy (Researcher) and Alessandro Rubin (Researcher), chaired by Donal Cooper (History of Art). In association with Jesus College on the occasion of their exhibition ‘Congdon: An American Modernist Abroad’, West Court Gallery (15 January–3 March).
Find out more about the project and hear from our curator about how and why Tobin brought it to Kettle’s Yard.
Made in 1986 during a performance in which Rose Garrard transformed a corner shop into a plaster casting studio, these sculptures juxtapose images of historic women artists and page three girls from the Sun newspaper. They are both a document of the gender politics of the 1980s, and a protest at the exclusion of women artists from the history of art and the objectification of women in the British press. This is the first time the works have been exhibited since 1994.
