Five years of the new Kettle’s Yard.
It was with great pleasure that last Friday I attended the fifth year celebration of the opening of the new galleries and learning centre
@kettlesyard
I was joined by our client, the director
@andrewnairne (seen in the first photo) in speaking about this wonderful place, so dear to so many. It was great to have so many supporters and artists present. And particularly, for me, the wonderful Jennifer Lee and curator Sarah Griffin with whom I worked on Jeff’s exhibition in 2019 (see photo 3)
I spent a blissful hour alone in the House, created by Jim and Helen Ede and designed by Sir Lesley Martin and David Owers in 1970. Jim’s ability to bring objects together is brilliantly seen in my last image, where he places a rare Lowery ‘lonely landscape’ ‘Mountain Lake, 1943’ next to Lucy Rie’s ‘Bowl, 1971-74’. While most would never see a link between these two artists, Jim saw a formal and tonal connection.
No amount of time spent in this place is wasted time. The magic never stops unfolding.
Many thanks to
@mylinhlephotography for the speech photos.
Ps. It’s not normally pink. That was just party lighting.
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