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We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that on Wednesday 26 February Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 3.30pm for a private event. Last entry to the house will be at 2.15pm. Thank you.

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that on Wednesday 26 February Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 3.30pm for a private event. Last entry to the house will be at 2.15pm. Thank you.

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

Euan Uglow - Jana, 1996/97
Exhibition

A Measure of Reality

9 March – 28 April 2002

Time, distance, size, speed. From earliest times people have tried to come to terms with the ‘real world’ – to locate themselves in time and space – by measuring. Through painting, photography, video and installation this exhibition took an unusual variety of art from the last thirty years which had measurement as its basis.

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Among the artists exhibiting – Euan Uglow’s Root Five Nude measured the geometry of a life model in a meticulously organised setting. In a specially commissioned ‘impingement’ Gary Woodley explored the architectural spaces of the gallery at Kettle’s Yard. Richard Long recorded and evoked the actual experience of mapped and pre-measured walks in the natural landscape. By contrast, Lizzie Hughes’ sound piece was emphatically urban – relentlessly ascending as she telephoned each consecutive floor of the Empire State Building – while Mona Hatoum’s video, Measures of Distance, charted the dislocation of exile and separation.