Welcome to Kettle's Yard
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends
11 November 2023 - 18 February 2024This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall.
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 hosts modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
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.
Upcoming Events
Exhibition Tour – Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends with co-curator Sarah Victoria Turner.
Creative Starting Points: Teacher CPD
Keen to spark interest in different creative approaches to artmaking? Secondary and sixth form art teachers, join artist Anna Brownsted in this teacher CPD to play games of chance, explore creative cause and effects and experiment with different creative starting points, inspired by ideas within the Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends exhibition at Kettle’s Yard.
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 (22 June – 22 September 2024) and Portia Zvavahera (5 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
