Kettle's Yard

File:Kettle's Yard.JPG as it looked before the 2018 redevelopment]]

Kettle's Yard House and Gallery lies on the west side of Castle Street, between Northampton Street and St Peter's Church.

It was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen.{{cite web |url=http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/house/index.html |title=Kettle's yard house |access-date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731152318/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/house/index.html |archive-date=31 July 2008 |df=dmy-all }} Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages with the help of Winton Aldridge into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection of early 20th-century art. Ede maintained an 'open house' each afternoon, giving any visitors, particularly students, a personal tour of his collection.

In 1966, Ede gave the house and collection to the University of Cambridge, but continued living there before he and his wife moved to Edinburgh in 1973. The house is preserved as the Edes left it, making a very informal space to enjoy the permanent collection and live music.{{cite web |url=http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music/subs.html |title=Kettle's Yard music - chamber concerts |access-date=2011-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518083739/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music/subs.html |archive-date=18 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }} In 1970, the house was extended, adding an exhibition gallery in a contrasting modernist style by Leslie Martin.

The house and gallery temporarily closed in June 2015 during a major building project to create a four-floor education wing, improved exhibition galleries, a new entrance area and a café.{{cite web|url=http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/development-plans/|title=Development plans – Kettle's Yard}} A series of gentle additions by Jamie Fobert Architects offers greatly improved support services for visitors, including a new courtyard and welcome area and a new shop.{{cite web|title=Work; Kettle's Yard|url=http://jamiefobertarchitects.com/work/kettles-yard/|website=Jamiefobertarchitects.com/|access-date=2 February 2018}}{{cite news|last1=Wainwright|first1=Oliver|title=Kettle's Yard's rebirth: 'A magical sequence of spaces worth the 14-year wait'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/02/kettles-yards-rebirth-a-magical-sequence-of-spaces-worth-the-14-year-wait|access-date=2 February 2018|work=The Guardian|date=2 February 2018}} The project cost £11,000,000 including £2,320,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2011032902|title=Latest news|access-date=30 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401012503/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2011032902|archive-date=1 April 2011|url-status=dead}} and £3,700,000 from Arts Council England. The interior of the house has been left untouched.

During the closure, there were displays of the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.

Kettle's Yard is part of the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.{{cite web|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/visit-us/our-museums|title=Our Museums|first=Jo|last=McPhee|date=6 August 2013|website=www.cam.ac.uk}}

File:Diet sayler5.jpg in the gallery in 2000]]

File:Christopher Wood Autoportrait 1927.jpg Self-portrait (1927){{cite web |title=Self-Portrait, 1927 |url=http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/collection-item/self-portrait/ |website=Kettlesyard.co.uk |access-date=27 December 2018}}]]

The permanent collection is composed of paintings, sculptures and objects collected by Ede. It is largely based on associations and friendships formed when Ede was a curator at Tate Gallery, and as such it is biased towards works from the British avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century.

Ian Hamilton Finlay described Ede's "fusion of art and found objects" on an inscribed pebble as "the Louvre of the pebble".Exhibition catalogue 'Beauty and Revolution: The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay' Kettles Yard, Cambridge 2014

Notable artists represented in the collection are:

• Constantin Brâncuși
• William Congdon
• Helen Frankenthaler
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
• Ian Hamilton Finlay
• Barbara Hepworth
• David Jones
• Joan Miró
• Henry Moore
• Ben Nicholson
• David Peace
• Winifred Nicholson
• Alfred Wallis
• Christopher Wood

• Primavera Gallery on King's Parade, has put on several exhibitions at Kettle's Yard
• Wysing Arts Centre, a research and development centre for the arts, west of Cambridge in Bourn

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• [http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/ Kettle's Yard Gallery website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080731152318/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/house/index.html Kettle's Yard House]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080607212918/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/house/collection.html Kettle's Yard Collection]
• [http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/coldwell_images/coldwell_vid.html Video conversation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215111747/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/coldwell_images/coldwell_vid.html |date=15 February 2012 }} between Roger Wilson and Paul Coldwell to accompany the exhibition [http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/coldwell.html 'Paul Coldwell: I called while you were out'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005065712/http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/coldwell.html |date=5 October 2012 }} 2008/9
• {{youtube|QMtz9ciE9M0|"The Analysis of Beauty" by Disinformation at Kettle's Yard}}

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