A room to live in: inside Kettle’s Yard

Part of the 30th University of Cambridge Alumni Festival.

Kettle’s Yard is a renowned house and gallery at the University of Cambridge. The house opened in 1957, created by ex Tate Curator, Jim Ede (1895 - 1990). The Director of Kettle’s Yard, Andrew Nairne, will talk about a number of the unique arrangements of art and objects which make Kettle’s Yard so special, offering insights into such questions as to how to hang art in a home, the importance of light and why pebbles matter.

Andrew Nairne OBE

Andrew Nairne OBE has been Director of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, since 2011. He is a former Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts and Modern Art Oxford. He has worked with the numerous UK and international artists. In the 1980s and 1990s, as a curator in Glasgow, he organised pioneering exhibitions with artists from Eastern Europe and supported the rise of a new generation of British artists.

Andrew led the acclaimed £11m redevelopment of Kettle’s Yard, which reopened in February 2018 with new galleries and education spaces. Recent exhibitions and publications have included Actions. The image of the world can be different, Antony Gormley SUBJECT and Julie Mehretu: Drawings and

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Wonderful talk about a wonderful place. Thank you.