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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard house and the Garden Kitchen café will be closed as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard house and the Garden Kitchen café will be closed as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

Photo: © Kettle's Yard

Painting

Fishes and lobster pots, c. 1936

Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
220 x 460 mm
KY00676.EH
On display

About the artist

Born 1855 – Died 1942

Wallis was born in Devon. He worked as a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives, Cornwall. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness.

Read the full biography