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Our Work of the week is Spiral of Stones, one of five objects featured in our new online resource A Handful of Objects.
Spiral of Stones is an arrangement of 76 circular limestone pebbles, found on the beaches of Norfolk and carefully positioned by the creator of Kettle’s Yard Jim Ede. Jim felt that we make personal connections to the colour, shape or pattern of pebbles or stones that we pick up. He was fascinated by our individual choice about what makes a perfect pebble, writing;
‘I will discard 10,000 in my search for one whose outward shape exactly balance my idea of what a pebble is … you may search a wide seashore or the reaches of many rivers and never find one, and then suddenly it lies before you – an ordered unit, shaped of this order from the countless vicissitudes of nature’s course… We find a perfect pebble once in a generation and once in a continent perhaps.’
Watch the time-lapse video below to see how natural light creates patterns across the spiral of stones.
vimeo.com/142524859
Discover more about Spiral of Stones here:
www.kettlesyard.co.uk/handfulofobjects/spiral-of-stones/
Looking forward to the "fiery, precise" playing of Krysia Osostowicz & Daniel Tong tomorrow night. It's the second in a series of four concerts that features all ten of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano. Krysia and Daniel’s close collaboration on these sonatas has led to the project, Beethoven Plus, in which they have invited ten composers to write a five-minute companion piece to each of the sonatas.
Tickets are still available online, via phone or on the door (£16/£6)
www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/krysia-osostowicz-violin-daniel-tong-piano-2/
Krysia Osostowicz, violin & Daniel Tong, piano – Events – Kettle's Yard
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F minor, op. 2, No. 1 Peter Ash: A Major Chase (programme note) Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin in A, op. 12 No.2 Philip Ashworth: Air (programme note) Beethoven: Son...
Help our friends Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft & lots of artists create huge prints on their steamroller printing tour BIG STEAM PRINT!
The ambitious project will turn a 12.5 tonne 90 year old steamroller into a giant printing press and take it on tour so that 1000s of people can see this extraordinary spectacle. Over 30 artists are set to make their biggest ever prints including Rob Ryan, Angie Lewin, Anthony Burrill, Jonny Hannah, and many more from all over the country. The museum is crowdfunding aiming to raise £12,500 by 23 February through the Art Fund’s Art Happens website. Support the Big Steam Print and receive your choice of brilliant awards, including postcards, tote bags and limited editions designed by our artists. You can see a film about it here:
www.artfund.org/get-involved/art-happens/big-steam-print
Our work of the week is Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, n.d by Tony Giles, currently on show at the University Library as part of the display The Horizon is the point of No Return. The display features two lenticular prints by Georgie Grace (prints that move as the viewer moves past them) and works chosen by the artist from the Kettle’s Yard collection. Through her selection of curious landscape paintings and sculptures Grace explores the idea that a landscape can act both as a static image to look at and a window to look through into the outside world.
Tony Giles (1925-1994) was born in Taunton, Somerset. Hia father was an engine driver for Great Western Railway and as a child Giles would often travel in the leading coach as his dad brought the London train down to Penzance. He never lost the magic of those trips and in 1959 he was able to move to Cornwall. In his spare time he painted compulsively; the local landscape, the railway lines and viaducts of the county, its harbours and chapels.
Journalist Frank Ruhrmund said that Giles was 'one of Cornwall's most powerful and prolific, and strange as it may seem, still most under-rated artists.'
Today we're delighted to share the news that we have launched a new online resource for Kettle's Yard. It explores key works from the collection by artists such as Lucie Rie, Ben Nicholson and Alfred Wallis through film, sound, images and 360-degree views.
You can start exploring it here: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/handfulofobjects/
Or find out more about how it was created here: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/news/a-handful-of-objects/