Curator’s blog
/ Kettle's Yard House / Tuesday 29th May
The man from Istanbul brought our rug back today. (Literally, he flew over with it under his arm). He’s been restoring it for a whole year and it looks amazing. He uses vintage yarn to preserve the antique colours and works with traditional weavers from Anatolia to help us keep our rugs in the best condition to resist the daily wear and tear of visitors’ feet.
Next time you visit, don’t forget to look at what’s under your feet. And tread carefully!
Alfred Wallis, Steamboat with two sailors, lighthouse and rocks, n.d, reserve collection
Andrew Nairne
/ Director's Blog / Monday 14th May
Hello and welcome to our development blog site – we want this to be an active online space where you can find out about the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff, especially at this time of great development for Kettle’s Yard (for details about the new Education Centre that we are building, read more
here
).
All the formal information about what’s on and what’s open can still be found on our main
website
. This site is a more informal space where we’ll invite comments from artists, educators and audiences who we are working with to contribute.
There will be opportunities to find out more about our four Associate Artists who will be working with us during 2012 /13: Mate Bejanru, Matthew Darbyshire, Lorna Macintyre and Jeremy Millar.
Over time this website will grow and a bigger and richer picture of all the activity that Kettle’s Yard is involved with during the building works will emerge.
This is new for us so please do give us feedback and let us know what’s working or not and what you would like to see more of.
To illustrate my first post I’ve chosen one of my favourite paintings from the current
Alfred Wallis exhibition in the gallery
here, a different version of which will go on tour from July.
