The lived-in beauty of Kettle's Yard
As summer comes to the newly opened Kettle's Yard we visit this unique home for a tour around the rooms and amongst the exquisite works of art...
As summer comes to the newly opened Kettle's Yard we visit this unique home for a tour around the rooms and amongst the exquisite works of art...
I had a rather unique childhood. I grew up on a farm, off grid, in Lancashire. My father sunk a well where we got our water, and we had no electricity for a while, but later he bought a small wind turbine. A wash would be a heated bucket of water via the well, thrown over our heads from the top of the caravan. My parents had the ‘good life’ ideals in their heads, they aimed for a more simple life and they also had jobs at the local food produce farms.
'You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. ‘This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are, and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.’ – Joseph Campbell
The first thing that got me was the buttons. Lucie Rie (1902-1995), the doyenne of British post-war pottery, had always struck me as icily elegant – more figurehead than flesh and blood.
Hole & Corner's managing editor, Jossy Smalley, traces the story of her couturier grandmother who was closely involved in making some of the robes and dresses for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Karimah Hassan creates her work from the studio, to the street, to the canvas; it moves between these spaces, questioning the delineation between street art, fine art and community art. The journey of each piece and the audience it connects to is as fascinating as the art itself.
Scottish-born artist Cavan Jayne McPherson graduated with a master’s degree in womenswear knit from the Royal College of Art in 2018. Here, she explored the agriculture and innovation in natural fibre and dye.
Alice Walton is a British ceramics artist based in Somerset. After graduating from the RCA in 2018 and winning the 'BCB Fresh Talent Residency, hosted by Wedgwood' in 2019, she was appointed artist-in-residence at Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent for 2021.
Jessica Ogden began collaborating with French clothing brand A.P.C. in 2000, and it was in 2011 that she started designing her vibrant collections of quilted textiles for the label.
Opening at Messums Yorkshire, Graeme Black’s Trunk Show is a series of paintings of trees that come from a life of looking for ways to connect what he sees with what he feels, the materiality of objects seen with the sensations of forms experienced.
Marion Hume on how she and her husband created a garden on top of their house and embraced London lockdown...