Here you can find a large range of digital resources and material that you can explore and enjoy at home.
Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso
Find out more about exhibition artists Paul Dash, Errol Lloyd and John Lyons in these filmed interviews.
Interview with Paul Dash
Interview with Errol Lloyd
Interview with John Lyons
Art To Go: Carnival Masks with John Lyons
Have a go at making Carnival Masks with artist John Lyons in our latest Art To Go film.
Ivorypress
Watch a Guided Tour of Ivorypress at Kettle’s Yard, a display which celebrates the 25 anniversary of Ivorypress.
Watch an in conversation between Ivorypress founder Elena Foster and Kettle’s Director Andrew Nairne
UNTITLED at Home
On this page you will find a collection of resources relating to the UNTITLED: Art on the conditions of our time exhibition, that can be explored at home.
Reflections from Home
What are artists thinking and doing?
During the first lockdown Andrew Nairne, Director, invited artists that Kettle’s Yard has worked with in the past to offer their reflections from home, through images and text, at a time when millions around the world were homebound.
Week 1: Oscar Murillo, La Paila, Colombia
Week 2: Vicken Parsons, Norfolk, UK
Week 3: Rana Begum, London, UK
Week 4: Antony Gormley, Norfolk, UK
Week 5: Sohrab Hura, Delhi, India
Week 6: Callum Innes, Oslo, Norway
Week 7: Jennifer Lee, Peckham, London
Week 8: Seher Shah, New Delhi, India
Week 9: Harold Offeh, Cambridge, UK
Week 10: Anna Brownsted, Cambridge, UK
Christopher Wood’s ‘Flowers’ (1930)
We’re pleased to share with you a short introduction to ‘Flowers’ (1930) by Christopher Wood with Andrew Nairne, Director, filmed just before Kettle’s Yard’s closure in March.
Three Questions
During the first lockdown Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Acting Head of Programme, invited artists that Kettle’s Yard has worked with in the past to offer their reflections on these exceptional times by answering three questions with a short video.
- What are the best of times now?
- What are the worst of times now?
- What would you like to hold on to that you have learnt in these times?
Tangier Days
Read our series exploring the years Jim and Helen Ede spent living in Tangier, Morocco, from 1936 to 1952. It includes a selection from Jim Ede’s writings and photographs from the Kettle’s Yard Archive.
Alfred Wallis at Home Activity For Families
Have a go at our new activity for families ‘Alfred Wallis at Home’. Download the resource to find out more about Alfred Wallis and join in with creative activities inspired by his work and our Alfred Wallis Rediscovered exhibition.
North South East West: Sarah Wood in conversation with Gareth Evans
To accompany Sarah Wood’s new film for Kettle’s Yard, Here is Elsewhere, we invited independent film curator and writer Gareth Evans to speak to Wood to discuss the film. You can download a transcript here.
Correspondence
Following the Here is Elsewhere commission, Wood has made a short film that brings together archive footage and imagery taken around the Cornish coastline to reflect on issues of care and responsibility in art, curating, and making art during lockdown. The scripted voiceover in Correspondence takes the form of a letter written by Wood to her fellow artist Alfred Wallis.
Correspondence lasts 7 minutes and 30 seconds.
Pebble Challenge
Get creative with a month’s worth of activities for families and children in our Pebble Challenge.
Alfred’s Adventures in the Children’s City
Watch the recording for this interactive children’s event with Cambridge Literary Festival. The event was first broadcast on 31 March 2021, and is now being shared as part of Cambridge City Council’s ChYpPS programme for children and young people.
Schools Film
This video from the Kettle’s Yard learning team allows you to explore Kettle’s Yard together from the virtual classroom.
The film takes you around the House and invites you to look, talk and respond creatively – as a class or together at home. There are lots of moments within the film for in-class or at home interaction, as well as links to follow up more in future lessons.
Campaign for Empathy
Enni-Kukka Tuomala was our Open House Artist in Residence for North Cambridge, 2020/21.
Enni created a Campaign for Empathy for North Cambridge, with several activities you can download.
Find out more and download the activities
Watch our latest film with Enni and find out what she’s been up to in the first six months of her residency.
Music at Home
We were very sad to have had to cancel the remaining concerts in our Chamber Music series and our New Music series. We hope that you can enjoy some music resources from home. We look forward to welcoming you back to Kettle’s Yard music soon.
Chamber Music
We’ve drawn together a Spotify playlist of ‘Music-in-Lieu’ for each of the cancelled Chamber Music concerts, comprising recordings by the same artists or of the same pieces from their programmes, plus a few extras that we think you’ll enjoy.
Click here to listen to the playlists
New Music
New Music Curator Tom McKinney has been in contact with the musicians whose concerts couldn’t take place, and we’re pleased to share with you some films and music from them.
Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Personages’ (1965)
Alfred Wallis’ ‘Sailing Ship and Orchard’ (1935-37)
Linderism at Home
In February 2020 we were delighted to open our exhibition ‘Linderism’. Explore Linderism at home, including a filmed exhibition tour and recordings of talks and performances.
Visit the Linderism at Home page
Blog
All of this activity and more is being shared on our blog.
Alfred Wallis at Home
Whilst we are closed, you can explore Alfred Wallis at Home. On this page you will find a collection of resources relating to the Alfred Wallis Rediscovered exhibition, that can be explored at home.
Keep in touch using #AlfredWallisRediscovered on social media, and by signing up here for our weekly Kettle’s Yard newsletter.
Meet the Maker
Throughout March we shared a series of blog posts in which we met some of the makers whose work you can find in the Kettle’s Yard Shop.
Week 1: David Stonehouse
Week 2: Brie Harrison
Week 3: Cambridge Imprint
Week 4: Join
Week 5: Rosie Flo
Shop
The shop is currently dispatching online orders and includes many activities you can do at home as well as a range of books.
Other resources to enjoy from home
Stay in Touch
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