LOOK, MAKE, TALK Tuesdays after school for 8-12s 7 week course – booking essential £62 course, all materials and refreshments provided. 3, 10, 17, 24 June; 1, 8, 15 July 4.15-5.45pm Our weekly after school art club continues with artists Alex Hirtzel and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs. Explore the themes of Gustav Metzger: Lift Off! and create an exhibition of your own.
STUDIO SUNDAYS
Gustav Metzger, Drop on a Hot Plate, 1968
Free drop in practical art workshops for families with children of all ages 8, 22 June; 6, 20 July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August, 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. As part of Summer at the Museums our usual fortnightly sessions will run every week during August.
KETTLE’S YARD FAMILIES OUT AND ABOUT THIS SUMMER In addition to our onsite programme, you can find artists from the Kettle’s Yard Learning Team at events and celebrations across Cambridge this Summer. Catch us at the Big Weekend, the Arbury Carnival and the ChYpPs Summer Daze programme. See our website for further information.
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
FOR ADULTS
CIRCUIT: A National Youth Network for the Visual Arts
Kettle’s Yard at night
Wednesday meetings 5.30-7.30pm 15 to 25 years old? If so then come along to Circuit! Circuit is a group of 15 to 25 year olds who commission artists to work with them on a diverse range of projects. We organise workshops and run events with Kettle’s Yard and Wysing Arts Centre. Whether you like making art, organising events or engaging with the community then Circuit is for you. There are also opportunities to shape a new Arts Festival in 2015. Circuit is a great way to meet new people, get more involved with galleries and gain skills. If you like the sound of this then e-mail us circuit@wysingartscentre.org or find us on twitter @circuitcambs facebook Circuit Cambs
Friday 16 May, open until 8.30pm, free Experience the sun going down in the house at Kettle’s Yard with pop up talks about the collection and live music. A Museums at Night event.
THE ART PARTY! Free but booking essential 21 August, 6-8pm Join us for a special screening of The Art Party! A new film from Tim Newton and Bob and Roberta Smith. Part documentary, part road movie the film champions the importance of art and it’s place in education and modern politics. The film is being released simultaneously at nationwide art parties to coincide with the day of GCSE results. Distributed by Cornerhouse Artist Film.
5 June ~ Curator’s Tour of Gustav Metzger: Lift Off! with Elizabeth Fisher 12 June ~ see below: part of Universities Week 26 June ~ Contemporary artist C. J. Mahony discusses the challenges of re-making and re-staging artists’ work and her experiences of re-creating work with Gustav Metzger for Lift Off! 10 July ~ Vicken Parsons paintings with Director Andrew Nairne 24 July ~ Collection Highlight: Kenneth Martin with Senior Curator Jennifer Powell
Universities Week 2014 Discover the Archive & Evening Opening Wednesday 11 June, 6-8pm, free Introduction to Gustav Metzger by Director Andrew Nairne at 7pm. Drop in and explore the archive – come and discover the story of Kettle’s Yard through original documents from our archive with archivist Frieda Midgley.
MUSIC FREE Friday Lunchtime Concerts 25 April - 13 June Concerts begin at the earlier time of 12.15 (doors open at 12.00). Hear music performed by students from the University of Cambridge.
Presented by New Music Associate Richard Causton 12.15pm, coffee served from 11.45am, £8 (£5) 11 May ~ Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart presents a selection of his electroacoustic works including the world première of his newly commissioned work in memory of Richard Orton. Wishart is a true pioneer – an artist who has consistently ploughed his own furrow never shying away from tackling complex contemporary issues. 25 May ~ Kreutzer String Quartet with cellist Bridget MacRae Priaulx Rainier: String Quartet, Jeremy Dale Roberts: String Quintet, Leosˇ Janácˇek: Quartet no. 2 Intimate Letters 15 June ~ Errollyn Wallen – Songs with piano The final concert in the series features composer and singer-songwriter Errollyn Wallen MBE, who was recently the recipient of an Ivor Novello award. Wallen will present a selection of songs from the Errollyn Wallen Songbook. Booking and more information: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music or call 01223 748100, tickets also available on the door.
Admission Free cover: Gustav Metzgar, Liquid Crystal Environment, 1965, remade 2005, Tate
FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Sunday New Music
LUNChtIME TALKS Thursday talks are free and now start at the earlier time of 12.30, they usually last 30 mins.
lunchtime talk Thursday 12 June, 12.30, free Robert Stockill, a doctoral experimental physics student from the University of Cambridge, discusses the science behind Gustav Metzger’s works.
In the gallery: Gustav Metzger: Lift Off! Errollyn Wallen MBE
Events
May - August 2014
In the house: one of the UK’s most remarkable collections of 20th century art & Vicken Parsons paintings
Gustav Metzger: Lift Off!
Visitors to Lift Off! will be submersed in Gustav Metzger’s world of creative experimentation and activism between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, this ambitious exhibition focuses on Metzger’s auto-creative work – the alter ego of his better-known auto-destructive practice.
24 May – 31 August 2014
would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory aspects of my being.”
The exhibition gallery provides wheelchair access and disabled toilet facilities. Limited wheelchair access can be provided to the house. Entrance via the path off Castle Street.
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A special publication documenting the exhibition Painted Objects in St.Peter’s Church is available in the shop, price £7.95.
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SAVE THE DATE, CASTLE HILL OPEN DAY: 18 OCTOBER 2014 Explore the history, heritage and art of Castle Hill, with free events for all ages.
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Gustav Metzger: Lift Off! is curated by Elizabeth Fisher in collaboration with Gustav Metzger and Kettle’s Yard.
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Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house that contains a remarkable collection of modern art. In the house you can find paintings and sculptures by great names of early 20th century art including Miró, Henry Moore, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Christopher Wood and ceramics by Lucie Rie and William Staite Murray.
The exhibition includes a new film of Metzger in conversation with curator Elizabeth Fisher, reflecting on this aspect of his practice. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.
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Following her recent Kettle’s Yard exhibition in St. Peter’s Church, we have invited Vicken Parsons to display a number of her paintings and sculptures among the permanent collection in the house. Born in 1957, Parsons studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her most recent exhibitions were held at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London and at Christine Koenig in Vienna.
range of cards, prints, gifts and art books.
House open Tuesday-Sunday 12-5pm Open Bank Holiday Mondays Tuesday-Sunday 11.30am-5pm Open Bank Holiday Mondays
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The show highlights Metzger’s close connections with the city of Cambridge. Born in Nuremburg in 1926, Metzger came to Britain as a refugee in 1939. He began his education as a student at Cambridge School of Art in the 1940s and lived in East Anglia throughout much of the 1950s. Two of his most significant lecture demonstrations, in which Metzger presented his ideas around auto-creation and auto-destruction, were staged at Cambridge University in 1960 and 1965.
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Gustav Metzger practicing for a public demonstration of Auto-destructive art, by Ida Kar © National Portrait Gallery
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The exhibition includes Metzger’s landmark piece Liquid Crystal Environment (1965 remade 2005) on loan from Tate. This hypnotic environment is composed of projections that create constantly shifting psychedelic patterns. The exhibition will also showcase works that use air, water and heat that Metzger first made in a university laboratory in Swansea in 1969 and which have not been seen since.
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Travel By road From South: M11 exit at junction 13. From North: from A14 take the A1307 to Castle St. Parking is limited; we recommend the Park & Ride service, 01223 718167.
ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM White Heat: art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain 26 July, conference fee £20 (conc. £15) includes refreshments Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Gustav Metzger: LIFT OFF! LECTURES
Kettle’s Yard is grateful to the following: Arts Council England, The Heritage Lottery Fund,
Gustav Metzger’s writings
The Higher Education Funding Council, Cambridge City Council, The Isaac Newton Trust,
A one-day conference exploring the relationships between art, science and society in the 1960s. 50 years on, key figures from this period will join speakers from the fields of art and cultural history, the history and philosophy of science, contemporary art, science, activism and popular culture to revisit one of the most intense periods of intellectual and cultural ferment. See: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/whiteheat
Mathieu Copeland, curator and writer 5 June, 8-9pm, £8 / £6 Friends of Kettle’s Yard with special opening of the gallery and shop before the talk from 7-8pm
Gustav Metzger in Conversation: Music and Art in the 1960s 26 July, 5-7pm, £8 (conc. £5) or free if attending the conference above
Automata in history: the Kinetic Arts of the Enlightenment Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge 3 July, 7-8pm , £8 / £6 Friends of Kettle’s Yard with special opening of the gallery and shop before the talk from 6-7pm
The PRS for Music Foundation, The Holst Foundation, EY, The RVW Trust, The Radcliffe Trust, The Faculty of Music, The Ede Circle, The Friends of Kettle’s Yard, Dr Shirley Ellis, and other individual donors.