✨ Faces from Sutapa Biswas: Lumen ✨ Here are some details from our current exhibition #Lumen, which spans the artist's extensive career. The exhibition demonstrates the richness, diversity and conceptual continuity of the artist’s extended practice through the display of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video. Click the link in our bio to book a FREE ticket to the exhibition, or you can book your visit at Kettle's Yard on the day you wish to visit. Open until 30 January 2022, Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm 💖 @balticgateshead @bristolmuseums @filmvidumbrella @bradfordmuseums

Our favourite rainbow has been making an appearance in recent weeks. 😍 Normally appearing in November, it can be found on the piano by Brancusi's 'Prometheus' (1912). Have you spotted it before? 🌈🌈

The film 'Lumen' by Sutapa Biswas, which is part of our current exhibition, draws upon the personal experience of the artist's family, and their departure from India in the mid-1960s. The film explores themes of migration, dislocation, longing and belonging. "My mother must have been filled with fear of having to leave India. She was leaving everything - the love of her people, the love of her family, the love of her home, the love of the landscape - to go to the land of the same people who were responsible for bankrupting and violating her own place of birth. So, she must have been really ambivalent about making that journey. Had it not been for the fact that she had five children, I've often wondered whether she would have ever left India. I don't know that she would have." - Sutapa Biswas Visit 'Sutapa Biswas: Lumen' until 30 January. Click the link in our bio to pre-book your visit, or you can book your exhibition tickets on the day at Kettle's Yard. 'Lumen' was co-comissioned by Kettle’s Yard, @filmvidumbrella, @bristolmuseums, and @balticgateshead, supported by Art Fund through the Moving Image for Museums programme. @hummingbird_biswas 🌙✨

📣 LAST WEEKEND of Friends Membership Week! Come into Kettle's Yard and find out more about being part of the Friends of Kettle's Yard, our membership group. Speak to current Friends at our information point in the welcome area. Join the Friends this weekend (26-28 November) and you will also receive a FREE Kettle's Yard tote bag or tea towel from the shop. As a Friend you receive advance notice of Kettle’s Yard activities, invitations to exhibition openings, access to special Friends events, and discounts in the Kettle’s Yard shop. Being a Friend is a great way to support Kettle’s Yard, develop you own interest in art and meet new people. See you soon! 👋

Find out more about our current display 'Ivorypress at Kettle's Yard' in our latest blog post. In this blog series, we’ll be taking a closer look at each of the artists included in Ivorypress at Kettle’s Yard. In this first post, find out more about artist Fernando Casasempere. "The artist describes his work as ‘an acceleration of natural geological transformations, such as mineral sedimentation’, seen here in the compressed layers of clay and minerals." Click the link in our bio and visit our blog to read it now. @ivorypress

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's 'The Dancer', part of the permanent collection at Kettle’s Yard, is a bronze cast made from the original plaster sculpture in the @tate collection. It was commissioned by Jim Ede. Gaudier-Brzeska beautifully captured the movement of The Dancer by showing her at the point where the she switches from one static pose to another. While he didn't focus on anatomical or facial specifics, it has been suggested that the model for the sculpture was the painter Nina Hamnett, who posed for Gaudier-Brzeska on various occasions. Others have commented on the likeness of The Dancer’s face to Sophie Brzeska’s, Gaudier’s life-long companion. In the winter months, the shadow of The Dancer moves across the wall, creating two dancers in the The Dancer Room 💃✨ #KettlesYard #CambridgeUniversity #InstaCamb #AutumnLight #HenriGaudierBrzeska #Dancer