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Megan Rooney: Echoes & Hours
22 June - 6 October 2024This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world.
About Kettle’s Yard
We are the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house with a remarkable collection of modern art and a gallery that presents modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
Chamber Music Concerts
Castalian Quartet and Tim Posner, cello
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with the Castalian Quartet and Tim Posner, cello, in the Kettle's Yard house.
Sterling Elliott, cello, Gabriele Strata, piano
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Sterling Elliott and Gabriele Strata in the Kettle's Yard house.
Trio Chagall
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Trio Chagall in the Kettle's Yard house.
Alessandro Fisher, tenor, and Simon Lepper, piano
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Alessandro Fisher and Simon Lepper in the Kettle's Yard house.
Kathryn Stott, piano
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Kathryn Stott on piano in the Kettle's Yard house.
Upcoming Events
Local & Global: Collection Spotlight Talks
Join our curatorial staff for three 10-minute spotlight talks about works on display around the Kettle’s Yard house
Studio Sunday
Unlock your creativity at our free, artist-led workshops for families in the Clore Learning Studio.
Wild Seed Sculptures: Adult Workshop
Join artist Kelly Briggs to create your own unique, small-scale sculpture which will disintegrate over time and become a patch of beautiful wild flowers.
Meet the Artist: Megan Rooney
Join us for an in-conversation with Megan Rooney to celebrate the launch of the Megan Rooney: Echoes & Hours exhibition publication.
Exhibition Visit: Nigel Hall RA at Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College
Join the Friends for a visit to see Nigel Hall’s new exhibition at Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College.
2024 Exhibitions
Coming up at Kettle's Yard
We are delighted to announce our 2024 programme of exhibitions: Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive (2 March – 26 May 2024), Megan Rooney: Echoes & Hours (22 June – 6 October 2024) and Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa (22 October 2024 – 16 February 2025).
Explore the Kettle’s Yard House and Collection
Jim Ede's Sitting Room
Attic
Dancer Room
Downstairs Extension
Alfred Wallis
Ben Nicholson: 1934 (relief)
Lucie Rie
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: The Dancer
Now Available: Artist Buttons
Ten leading artists, Ai Weiwei, Jonathan Anderson, Rana Begum, Edmund de Waal, Antony Gormley, Callum Innes, Jennifer Lee, Cornelia Parker, Vicken Parsons & Caroline Walker, have created limited edition sets of buttons in support of Kettle’s Yard.
