Handpicked: Painting Flowers presents works featuring flowers by artists spanning the 20th and 21st centuries.
When Jim and Helen Ede opened Kettle’s Yard in 1957, one of the key elements of their interior displays was fresh cut flowers. Their flower arrangements created visual correspondences with the forms and colours of artworks in the Edes’ remarkable collection. Handpicked: Painting Flowers will feature artists for whom painting flowers was a lifelong preoccupation, as well as those for whom it represented a brief but intense period of making.
Alongside works by significant figures of the 20th century, including Vanessa Bell, Henri Rousseau, Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood, contemporary artists such as Lubaina Himid, Jennifer Packer, Chris Ofili, Caroline Walker and Alison Watt will breathe new life into a much-loved subject. There will be one artwork from each artist on display.
This exhibition has been organised with the help of The Kettle’s Yard Community Panel: Bryan Johnson, Abi Moore, Jade Pollard-Crowe, Alan Soer and Jenny Wood.
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Visitor information
Address
Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ
01223 748100
Opening times
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-5pm
House, galleries, café and shop are open. You can pre-book your visit online, or come along for walk up tickets (available first come, first served) for the house and gallery. Last entry to the House at 4.20pm.
If you wish to visit the house, you will need to book a house ticket, which comes with a 50% National Art Pass discount. House tickets include entry to current exhibitions. If the house is fully booked, you can still visit the exhibition galleries by booking an exhibition ticket or coming along on the day you wish to visit.
Exclusions and safety measures
Please check the Kettle’s Yard website for any one-off closures.
