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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).

Elina Brotherus
Exhibition

Face/Off: a portrait of the artist

9 November 2002 – 5 January 2003

Face/Off bought together work by a number of contemporary artists to extend the idea of the self-portrait and to get away from the orthodoxy of the self-portrait being synonymous with the face.

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Although many of the works in the exhibition were never intended to function explicitly as a self-portrait, they nevertheless reflected upon the changing identity and role of the artist. As the title suggests, there were no faces in the show, and the exhibition consisted of works in many different media that confronted each other rather than attempt to resolve themselves into any one coherent alternative.

Artists in the exhibition include:

Elina Brotherus, Kate Davies, Keith Edmier, Tracey Emin, Tom Friedman, Peter Harris, Emma Kay, Scott King, Sean Landers, Michael Landy, Marc Quinn, Paul Noble, Jemima Stehli, Stuart Taylor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Amikam Toren, Gavin Turk, Gillian Wearing.