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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).

Image: Seam Vase Photo credit: Hamish Dobbie.
Friends

Studio Visit: Silversmith Hamish Dobbie

Saturday 6 July, 10.30-11.15am or 2.00-2.45pm

Join the Friends of Kettle’s Yard for a visit to Hamish Dobbie’s studio, a local silversmith.

Due to popular demand, a second date has been added on Saturday 27 July. Please book tickets using this link.

This event has passed. £10 Friends, booking required

In 2021, St John’s College, Cambridge, commissioned six custom-designed silver beakers from Hamish Dobbie as ceremonial gifts to exceptional students, thanks to a bequest made by Sir Joseph Larmor. His work features in the collections of The National Museum of Scotland, The Pearson Collection as well as The Goldsmiths’ Company. More recently, the Contemporary Art Society, for which Jim Ede served as the secretary during the 1920s, acquired two of his silver beakers, Heavy Quarried Beaker and Misty Mountain Beaker (pictured below), for The Usher Gallery in Lincoln. During the studio visit, Hamish will discuss and demonstrate a variety of techniques, ranging from chasing, repoussé, engraving, and 3D printing, using finished pieces and works in progress. A key item that will be shown and discussed is a commission of a silver pineapple. On show will also be the variety of beakers that he produces in silver.

Further Information

Hamish’s studio is in his garden shed, which is why he can accommodate only five visitors during each of the two visits. We will meet at the Urban Larder (9 The Broadway, Cambridge CB1 3AH), from where he will take us to his studio.

All proceeds support Kettle’s Yard. Refunds are not possible, unless the visit is cancelled by Kettle’s Yard. Should the visit be sold out, please email friends@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk to join the waiting list as we may organise additional visits.

Image: Quarried Silver Decanter. Photo credit: Hamish Dobbie.
Image: Quarried Silver Decanter. Photo credit: Hamish Dobbie.

Access

The studio has one step and is not wheelchair-accessible.

Please email friends@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk if you have any access requirements.

Join The Friends of Kettle’s Yard

This event is for the Friends of Kettle’s Yard. To join the Friends of Kettle’s Yard either click on the link below where you can join online on a secure site run by the University of Cambridge, or call us on 01223 748100.

If you have any queries please email: friends@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk

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