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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.

© The Estate of John Acland. Photo: Kettle's Yard

Sculpture

Carving, c. 1960

John Acland
Slate
120 x 40 x 4 mm
062 1987 M
On display

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Acland carved this small piece of slate while on holiday in Cornwall. He gave it as a present to Jim Ede, who wrote of it: “Acland was a sports fiend and may quite subconsciously have thought of the Olympic Games sign. If you hold it in your hands, or pull gently or twist, it seems to move.”

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