April - July 2013
University of Cambridge Admission free
In the gallery
Katie Paterson In the house
House Guests
Kettle’s Yard the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery 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 some of the great names of early 20th century art including Brancusi, Miró, Henry Moore, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Christopher Wood. Come and explore this inspiring house and collection. From 25 March parts of the house will be closed while we carry out essential maintenance work. We hope to reopen fully by the end of the year. Please call or email in advance to find out exactly what is open. KETTLE’S YARD ON TOUR Alfred Wallis: works from the Kettle’s Yard collection, Time and Tide, Great Yarmouth: 30 March - 8 September 2013.
MUSIC KATHRYN STOTT, piano A high-octane performance from one of the most impressive pianists heard here in years Washington Post Thursday 23 May 2013, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm) Graham Fitkin Haydn Franck Graham Fitkin Chopin Beethoven
Relent Variations in F minor Hob XV11:6 Prelude, Choral and Fugue Carnal Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Sonata Op.57, Appassionata
KETTLE’S YARD at the Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge Tickets £18/£15, book online, www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music or call 01223 748100
Lunchtime concerts at ST Giles Performed by University of Cambridge students. 1.10pm (doors open 1pm), last about 40 min. FREE. 3 May ~ Héloïse Werner (soprano) and Oliver El-Holiby (contralto) featuring vocal works by Poulenc, Bernstein, Messiaen, Handel and Bach. 10 May ~ Anthony Friend and Oliver Pashley (clarinet) perform a 20th-century program, including works by Berg, Stravinsky and Lutosławski. 17 May ~ Mark Seow and Maya Amin-Smith (violin) works by Beethoven, Brahms and Wieniawski. 24 May ~ Marianne Schofield (double bass) and Victoria Sawyer (violin) works by Robert Fuchs, Suk and Brahms. 31 May ~ Sasha Millwood (piano) works by Debussy and Prokofiev.
left Kathryn Stott, photo Lorenzo Cicconi Massi cover image © MJC 2013, courtesy Katie Paterson
KATIE PATERSON Kettle’s Yard Gallery & St Peter’s Church, 26 April - 23 June
“Katie Paterson’s art enables us to engage with forces that are too intangible and too immense for us to experience in other ways” Art Monthly
On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 150 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old. Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.
We are grateful to the Churches Conservation Trust and St Giles’ Church for their support. Katie Paterson’s residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is one of 6 international residencies which made up Wellcome Collection’s Art in Global Health project.
Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand, 2010. Photo © MJC, 2011, courtesy of the artist
Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the big questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.
From April to July visitors to Kettle’s Yard will have the opportunity to see ‘guests’ from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully placed amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light. The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar. “It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013 Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May. House Guests is part of the University of Cambridge Museums Connecting Collections programme funded by Arts Council England.
Faces, Luke Anowtalik, 1989, The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute, photo: Martin Hartley © SPRI
Kettle’s Yard House, 30 March - 28 July
Cairns Birdwing, Ornithoptera euphorion, 1910, University Museum of Zoology
House Guests
For Children & Families HALF-TERM FAMILY TASTER DAY For families with children aged 5-12 Tuesday 28 May Join us for a mixture of hour-long family workshops. All workshops are repeated at 10-11am / 11.15am-12.15pm / 12.30-1.30pm £6 per person per session
IN THE GALLERY Artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs slows the world down with a movement workshop responding to Katie Paterson’s exhibition
IN ST PETER’S CHURCH Examine the microscopic world of fossils and experiment with drawing with artist Jane Waterhouse
IN THE HOUSE Capture light and play with shadow with artist Janine Woods
Time Squish For children aged 5-8 and their carers Wednesday 29 May, 10-12pm Compress a day of life into a fossil with artist Lara Jones. £12 per child
Rock, Paper, Plaster For children aged 9-12 Thursday 30 May, 10am-12.50pm Discover how the history of life has inspired artist Katie Paterson’s work. Starts at the Sedgwick Museum, then, over to Kettle’s Yard for a morning of drawing and casting with artist Alex Hirtzel. Drop off: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences ~ Pick Up: Kettle’s Yard. £12 per child
Workshops must be booked in advance, unless stated otherwise. Book online at www.kettlesyard.co.uk or call 01223 748100. All under 8s must be accompanied by an adult.
STUDIO SUNDAYS 28 April ; 12 & 26 May; 9 & 23 June, 1-4pm Drop in practical art workshops for all ages Join us in the Education Studio to make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play. Free of charge, no booking necessary.
For Adults THE PRACTICE SESSIONS
Lunchtime Talks
Fridays 26 April / 24 May / 21 June, 6-8pm Drop in post-work, pre-pub £8 per session, pay on the door Start your weekend with an informal evening of art-making, short tours, music and performance. Each month we will offer a different combination of artforms and ideas for you to sample. No need to book in advance, admission includes one drink (then pay bar).
Thursday lunchtime talks are free, begin at 1.10pm and usually last 30 mins. Please note there is limited capacity for the House Guests talks, attendance will be on a first come first served basis.
26 April ~ Join geologist Annette Shelford, Education Manager at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, for a high speed journey through 3.6 billion years of life on Earth. 24 May ~ Explore the world of secrets with a digital performance by IJAD Dance Company, followed by a Q&A. 21 June ~ Reflect on the idea of collections and collectors with our House Guests project and artist Janine Woods.
Museums at Night 17 May, 6-8.30pm, free Special late opening. A chance to see the Katie Paterson exhibition and House Guests, after hours. Pay bar and discounts in the shop.
CONTACT: TACTILE ART WORKSHOP Tuesday 4 June, 10.30am-12.30pm For blind or partially sighted people and their friends. Join us for an informal session of chat and making – we’ll be exploring how Katie Paterson’s work has been inspired by time and space. Led by artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs and in partnership with Cam Sight. Free of charge, to book a place please contact Becky Cawdry, 01223 420033 or email becky@camsight.org.uk
2 May ~ Introduction to Katie Paterson by Lizzie Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions. 16 May ~ Introduction to Katie Paterson by Andrew Nairne, Director. 23 May ~ Steve Scott PhD from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute talks about Katie Paterson’s residency. 30 May ~ House Guests Dr Mark Elliot, Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and students from the Critical Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art. 20 June ~ House Guests Heather Lane, Librarian & Keeper of Collections, The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute and students from the Critical Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art. 11 July ~ Tour of House Guests with Director of Kettle’s Yard, Andrew Nairne.
Kettle’s Yard Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ telephone 01223 748100 mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk www.kettlesyard.co.uk
House Open Tuesday-Sunday 1.30-4.30pm Tuesday-Sunday 11.30am-5pm open Bank Holiday Mondays
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By train/bus The C1 bus runs from the station to Bridge Street; a short walk over Magdalene Bridge leads to the gallery, past the Folk Museum.
By road From South: M11 exit at junction 13. From North: from A14 take the A1307 to Castle Street. Meter parking on Northampton Street or Pound Hill. Parking is limited; we recommend the Park & Ride service, 01223 718167.
Kettle’s Yard is grateful to the following: Arts Council England, The Higher Education Funding Council, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Cambridge City Council, The Isaac Newton Trust, The PRS for Music Foundation, The Holst Foundation, The RVW Trust, The Faculty of Music, The Friends of Kettle’s Yard, Dr Shirley Ellis, and other individual donors.