Art & Ideas at Home: ‘Kettle’s Yard and Cornwall’

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As the Alfred Wallis Rediscovered exhibition comes to an end, this short online course will explore the connections between Kettle’s Yard and Cornwall. Above Jim Ede’s bed at Kettle’s Yard hang two paintings by Alfred Wallis – Five Ships (Mount’s Bay) and Houses at the water’s edge (Porthleven) while near the window is a small oil painting by Ben Nicholson called 1928 (Cornish Port). These works are the most obvious examples of these connections. Other Kettle’s Yard artists also spent time in Cornwall including Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. Later, Jim Ede championed the work of the St Ives artist, Bryan Pearce. 

Sarah Burles will tell the story of Kettle’s Yard’s Cornish connections which began when Jim Ede went to study at the Newlyn School of Art before the First World War. Later, his friends Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood discovered the work of Alfred Wallis on a visit to St Ives. They introduced Wallis to Jim who went on to acquire more than a hundred of his paintings. During the Second World War, Ben Nicholson returned to Cornwall with Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. 

This accessible short course will put these artists and their connection with Kettle’s Yard and Cornwall into a broader historical and artistic context.

Course dates:
Thursday 28 January, Thursday 4 February and Thursday 11 February, 5-6pm

£30 per person for all three talks, booking required

Your ticket covers all three dates.

Click here to book your place now

Ticket holders will be sent joining information nearer the event. If you have not received anything by 27 January please email sarah@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk or susy@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk.