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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that the Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard will be closed from Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 April inclusive for essential maintenance.

Kettle’s Yard house will close at 4pm on Friday 24 April with last entry to the house at 2.45pm. Please note the shop at Kettle’s Yard will remain open as usual to 5pm.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that the Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard will be closed from Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 April inclusive for essential maintenance.

Kettle’s Yard house will close at 4pm on Friday 24 April with last entry to the house at 2.45pm. Please note the shop at Kettle’s Yard will remain open as usual to 5pm.

Rachel McGivern

Rachel McGivern is a visual artist exploring hands-on processes and everyday materials. Rachel is interested in tactile exploration, play and design. How to learn through creativity or express an idea or emotion through art making. Her practice combines printmaking, drawing, design, ceramics and photography.

My favourite object is the found sculpture of a broom handle without any bristles that sits on the windowsill in the cottage sitting room. Soft worn grey wood, punctured with holes, it is a visually pleasing object, totally obscuring its original purpose, and positioned with as much value as artist-made paintings and sculptures in the room. I like its surprising origins and playful reinterpretation.