Alfred Wallis
Portraits of Place: Works from Kettle’s Yard and Richard Long
Sat 5 November 2016 - Sun 15 January 2017
Downing College
This exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, collages and works on paper by leading twentieth and twenty-first century artists who have been inspired to make artworks that respond to the places in which they have lived and worked. The exhibition includes an array of intimate depictions of British landscapes from the Kettle’s Yard Collection, ranging from early paintings of Cumberland and Cornwall by Ben Nicholson and Alfred Wallis, to evocative textual and material compositions that engage with ‘place’ by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Selected collages, paintings and photographs responding to rural and urban sites by non-British artists such as Italo Valenti and Helen Frankenthaler are also on display.
The Kettle’s Yard Collection particularly highlights how artists have drawn on the emotional, visual and physical sensations of their engagement with ‘place’. Reflecting the continuity of artists’ engagement with this subject today, Portraits of Place also includes works by British artist Richard Long (b. 1945), lent by the artist. By gathering together and using materials such as natural forms, images, words, and employing and recording his own physical gestures, Long continues to respond to the feelings, scale and textures of places and journeys.
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Website Email: mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 748100
Timing
10:00am-6:00pm Wednesday and Saturday-Sunday every week from Saturday 5 November 2016 until Sunday 15 January 2017
All times
Sat 5 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 6 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 9 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 12 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 13 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 16 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 19 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 20 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 23 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 26 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 27 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 30 November 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 3 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 4 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 7 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 10 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 11 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 14 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 17 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 18 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 21 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 24 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 25 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 28 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 31 December 2016 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 1 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 4 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 7 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 8 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Wed 11 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sat 14 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sun 15 January 2017 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |