Following the latest Government guidance, Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery is temporarily closed to help protect visitors, staff and the wider community. If you have booked a ticket for a future date we will be in touch as soon as the situation is clear.
House, galleries, café and shop:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
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Circuit is a group of 18-25 year olds who work on creative events and projects with art galleries Kettle’s Yard and Wysing Arts Centre.
If you’re 18-25 years old, like being creative and want to meet people and learn new skills, Circuit is for you.
Circuit is an opportunity to:
Circuit meets on alternate Tuesday evenings from 5-6.30pm via Zoom.
To join the online sessions, please email circuit@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk for the Zoom link.
Tuesday 12 January
Tuesday 26 January
Tuesday 9 February
Tuesday 23 February
Tuesday 9 March
Tuesday 23 March
‘I come to meet other people, different people that have similar interests.’
‘It feels privileged to get to be in the galleries after hours. It’s also nice for me to be doing something creative with other people as normally everything I do is self – led.’
‘I’ve done a lot of volunteering but Circuit is one of the places where I’ve felt more valued and welcomed. It’s GREAT getting food and snacks. I really enjoy taking part in Kettle’s Yard Lates and getting involved in events.’
‘I’m so chuffed by this project – I can’t believe my work is in the galleries next to Louise Bourgeois, and we mixed it, recorded it, edited it.’
Email circuit@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk to join the Circuit mailing list or get in touch with any questions.
Find out about our past projects at the bottom of the page, or at the Wysing Art Centre archive.
You can also check out our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.
Watch the video below to experience our Circuit Unlocks Festival – a day-long festival of digital art workshops created by the Circuit group in 2016.
Click through below to hear Circuit’s alternative guide to the Kettle’s Yard ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois exhibition (22 January 2019 – 24 March 2019).
Click here to view a full screen version of Louise Bourgeois: An Alternative Guide.
Watch Actions Artists Interviews, the film Circuit made for our reopening exhibition in 2018, Actions.
Check out this opportunity for photographers aged 18-25: Photoworks are partnering with English Heritage to offer an exciting new commissioning opportunity for photographers aged between 18 and 25. Four successfully commissioned artists will be invited to select an English Heritage site to use as a creative springboard. Using that site, artists will then create a new body of photographic work exploring alternative narratives and new voices of England, drawing out ideas around identity and its relationship to ‘Englishness’. They are interested in presenting a diversity of perspectives on heritage, and the notion of heritage sites as places of significance and meaning, where past and present can interact. A fee of £2,400 (inc VAT) is available for each artist and the residency will take place from March to May 2021, including research, development, site visits, contact time with a mentor, and production of the artwork. https://photoworks.org.uk/opportunities/artist-commissioning-opportunity-photoworks-x-english-heritage/
Happy New Year! We're meeting every other Tuesday online this term, starting on Tuesday 12th Jan. Get in touch if you'd like to join! You'll catch us on circuit@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk ** Image description: a group of young people stand around a table of objects, holding poses.
Check out some of the results of the activities we tried out on Tuesday. We posted them out to each other to test them out. Do you want a creative boost? Complete the form in the link in our bio by TUESDAY to get our activities posted to you to try at home for FREE!
There's less than 1 week left to submit your proposal to create work as part of an upcoming exhibition @BabylonArts in March 2021. Called 'No Frost at Night', the exhibition will be curated by Baylon Arts Young Curator, Sid White-Jones. Find out more here: bit.ly/No-Frost-At-Night. Apply by 5pm on Monday 14 December 2020. Image Description: a greyscale image of a diary with a drawing of flowers on the left hand side. Across the dates of the diary you can read handwritten text that documents the daily weather: 'very cold' 'snow on ground' over 28 days. Under the image is black text on a white background which reads: 'No Frost at Night' CALL FOR PROPOSALS Babylon ARTS is seeking proposals from East-Anglian based artists and creative practitioners for five new commissions that respond to source materials from 'The Soham Weather Diaries', a collection of archival records currently held within the care of Heritage for All CIC. Find out more about this opportunity at - bit.ly/No-Frost-At-Night #art #commission #artist #artists #CreativePractioner #creatives #Creative #CreativeIndustries #artistopportunity #opportunity #opportunities #opportunitiesforartists #artistcallout #CallOut #proposal #EastAnglia #eastanglianartists #artineastanglia #exhibition #BabylonGallery #NoFrostAtNight #BabylonYoungCurators #BabylonGallery 4d
Circuit Cambridge member and @Wysing.Arts.Centre studio artist Olu Taiwo has been busy putting together an open call for the new exhibition 'I Matter'. Submit your work by 31 Jan for an opportunity to be included in the exhibition at Babylon Gallery in April 2021. Black Curator and Artist, Olu Taiwo, is seeking innovative creative responses to the theme of ‘I Matter’, specifically aimed at artists and groups from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and communities residing in the UK. Check out the link via @BabylonArts Instagram page, or go straight here for more info: www.babylonarts.org.uk/projects/babylon-young-curators/i-matter.htm Apply by 5pm on Sunday 31 January 2021. Image Description: a photograph of a hand with the words 'I MATTER' painted on the hand. #IMATTER #art #commission #artist #artists #CreativePractioner #creatives #Creative #CreativeIndustries #artistopportunity #opportunity #opportunities #opportunitiesforartists #artistcallout #CallOut #proposal #exhibition #blackartists #asianartist #ethnicminorityartists #ukartist #BabylonGallery #BabylonArts #babylonartsely
The next postcard from our virtual visits to places we can't currently visit is from @freyapryceart Freya says of the process: 'Because the satellite image was so sunny and bright, I wanted to take the picture to the extreme to exaggerate how it was how I wanted it to be. I then added my own photographs I had taken at the location to show the elements that made me love it and that weren’t visible from the satellite image.' Image description: A landscape image by water where the colours have been altered to look unusual, creating a light blue mass of water, orange sands, black clouds and a lime green hill in the background. Over the top of the image are three greyscale images that appear to show the texture of sand and long grasses. White text is overlaid over the main image that reads: 'Walking alongside the sea, jut outside of its grasp, for miles and miles. It hits you so suddenly, the openness, the freedom.'