Alfred Wallis, Steamboat with two sailors, lighthouse and rocks, n.d, reserve collection

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.

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Comment

Binnie Macellari / Monday 2nd July

This Wallis whilst not my favourite (it makes me feel seasick!), is extraordinary in the way the sea is depicted = a heaving, white mass showing menace and danger to the little fishing boat. The exhibition is wonderful – for those who have not been – and your talk most enlightening.

admin / Wednesday 4th July

Thank you so much, I’m so glad you enjoyed the talk!