Read the latest in our blog series about the display 'Ivorypress at Kettle's Yard'. This fourth blog post explores artist Blanca Miró Skoudy, who's work can be found installed in the attic in the Kettle's Yard House. ✨ Read the full post by clicking the link in our bio and heading to our 'Blog'. 'Ivorypress at Kettle's Yard' closes on 3 April. To see the display you will need to book a House ticket. #KettlesYard #Ivorypress @ivorypress #VisitCambridge

Throughout March we're sharing a series of blog posts in which we meet some of the makers that you can find in the Kettle’s Yard Shop. In this week's #MeetTheMaker we spoke to the artisan knitwear brand @sprig_knitwear 🧵🧶 "When visiting the House I felt drawn to a lot of the textures and repetitive patterns and it was amazing how the space was filled with these qualities. Whether it be playful dashes painted on windows to imposing self portraits, textiles have seeped into all aspects of the House. I was particularly drawn to three works of art; - Christopher Wood’s Self Portrait, 1927 - Ben Nicholson’s princess (kings and queens), 1933 - Italo Valenti’s Nr 145; Laguna; Lagune, 1968 I found these pieces resonated with my own textile practice in some way. Wood’s jumper in his self portrait is a huge given – who wouldn’t want that jumper? How Nicholson uses just two colours and repeats pattern, which I also do in my own work. Then the composition of shapes in Valenti’s pieces too, links to the way in which I create patterns." Find out more and buy Kettle's Yard inspired Sprig Knitwear by clicking the link in our bio and heading to our blog 💖 #SprigKnitwear #ArtisanKnitwear #Knitwear #MeetTheMaker #MarchMeetTheMaker #KettlesYard #MuseumShop #ShopSmall @kettlesyardshop

Colourful blooms in the Kettle's Yard House 😍🌺🌼

Join Cambridge based architect Rolfe Kentish on 29 March for an online talk organised by the Friends of Kettle's Yard, and find out more about the restoration of Anchor Studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. This talk will illustrate the historic cultural significance of the building and the architect’s award-winning conservation, repair and renovation project, working with the late M J Long. There will also be the opportunity to hear contemporary artists’ reactions to working and living in the space since the building reopened. These will include ceramicist Julia Ellen Lancaster, visual artist Emma Smith, and painter Renée Spierdijk. Book now by clicking the link in our bio and visiting 'What's On' or visit www.kettlesyard.co.uk/friendsevents @artistemmasmith @reneespierdijk @juliaellenlancaster_ceramics @rolfekentish

Have you noticed this book of poetry on the table in Helen Ede's bedroom? To celebrate ✨#WomensHistoryMonth✨ Kettle's Yard curator @habda_ tells us more: When entering Helen Ede’s bedroom you’ll notice, placed on her bedside table, is Kathleen Raine’s 'Fairwell Happy Fields: Memories of Childhood'; a book from the Ede’s collection. A remarkable poet and scholar Kathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) read natural sciences, including botany and zoology, at University of Cambridge’s Girton College, receiving her master's degree in 1929. A visionary poet whose work probed the intersection of science and mysticism, Raine bridged elements of Jungian psychology and neo-Platonism in her work. Alongside her poety and research in to the subject, while a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, Raine also began to publish her critical studies of William Blake. In 1981, with Brian Keeble, Keith Critchlow, and Philip Sherrard, Raine founded the literary journal Temenos and the Temenos Press. With the support of Prince Charles, she also founded the Temenos Academy. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Raine received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Literature, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Chapelbrook Award, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Smith Literary Award and a Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was also granted honorary doctorates by Durham University, Leicester University, and Caen University. She died in London at the age of 95. Paradise Seed By Kathleen Raine Where is the seed Of the tree felled, Of the forest burned, Or living root Under ash and cinders? From woven bud What last leaf strives Into life, last Shrivelled flower? Is fruit of our harvest, Our long labour Dust to the core? To what far, fair land Borne on the wind What winged seed Or spark of fire From holocaust To kindle a star? 💖 #KettlesYard #Poetry #WomensPoetry #WomensHistory #UniversityofCambridge @cambridgeuniveristy @girtoncollege #Alumni #CambridgeUniveristyAlumni #KathleenRaine

Earlier this year we were delighted to welcome British fashion designer @paulsmith to Kettle's Yard for a talk in the House with journalist @aimee_farrell. Read our latest blog post to find out more about this event, organised by the Friends of Kettle's Yard, and listen to a recording of the talk. Speaking about Kettle's Yard, Paul Smith said "I fell in love with the place straight away. As soon as you walk in the door, you feel completely at home. The way in which an object that has no monetary value is placed next to something of value, next to something beautiful – that’s the way my home is, and the way my shops are.” 💖 Click the link in our bio and visit the 'Blog' to read the post and access the recording. 📸: @jasperfry #PaulSmith #SirPaulSmith #KettlesYard #BritishFashion #Design #BritishDesign #PaulSmithDesign #Cambridge #VisitCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Interiors #InteriorDesign