Join us for a day of CUBG special celebrations with free tours, family activities, live music, stalls, food trucks and more…
As we celebrate 175 years of the Garden being on this site, we’re delighted to be hosting a day of activities for visitors:
A twist of the hand is an exhibition of wall drawings informed by the use of pattern and colour in ancient Greece and Rome. Preserved architectural details, remnants of colour, geometric mosaics, and objects all serve as points of departure for the creation of new works, carefully sited among the Museum of Classical Archaeology’s cast collection. James Epps evokes the colourful worlds from which the ancient sculptures derive, inviting new relationships of pattern and colour.
This summer we are going to be keeping the gates and Café open a bit later for you to enjoy the beauty of the Garden on a summer’s evening.
Every Thursday in June and July the Garden will be open until 8pm.
We hope that you will join us to enjoy the summer evenings and find a spot for a picnic or to catch up with friends and family.
Join art historian Sarah Burles for an online afternoon talk on the artist Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981). The talk will put Nicholson’s work at Kettle’s Yard into a wider context as well as discussing her friendship with Jim and Helen Ede.
Zoology Live! 2021: Land, Sea and Sky
Join us for the Zoology Live! Online Festival 2021. We have three fantastic livestreams lined up for you, broadcast live from the Museum of Zoology at 7pm on Wednesday 30 June, Thursday 1 July and Friday 2 July. This year we are exploring animals of land, sea and sky. Sign up here for reminders for these three livestreams, and details of where to find more information about this online event.
Art Critic Martin Gayford’s new book Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art’s capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between the artist David Hockney and Martin Gayford, who are long-time friends and collaborators. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney’s new Normandy drawings and paintings, many previously unpublished, alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others.
Join us for an online conversation exploring the life and work of Alfred Wallis, inspired by our current exhibition Alfred Wallis Rediscovered.
Alfred Wallis spent most of his life as a seaman and fisherman in Cornwall, only turning to painting at the age of seventy. Although he painted from memory, his evocative images of ships, fishing vessels and the Cornish landscape were based on a lifetime of direct experience.
Plants have been used in the beauty and fragrance industry for thousands of years, from ancient times up until the present day.
The exhibition features watercolours from the our exceptional botanical collection. Works include those by Nicolas Robert (1614–85), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–70), Joseph von Plenck (1735–1807), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) and Henriette Knip (1783–1842). They are displayed alongside a range of perfume vessels from ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as scent bottles from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief, our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect.
Drawing on works of art spanning four thousand years and from across the globe, this exhibition explores the fundamental role of touch in human experience, and offers new ways of looking.
Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Untitled: art on the conditions of our time. This exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists with a focus on how their innovative practices ask important questions about some of the most important cultural and political issues of our turbulent times. The exhibition will feature new commissions by Barby Asante, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom and NT, as well as new and recent work by Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Phoebe Boswell, Kimathi Donkor, Evan Ifekoya, Cedar Lewisohn, Harold Offeh and Ima-Abasi Okon.
