Kettle’s Yard is the modern and contemporary art gallery belonging to the University of Cambridge. It is unusual in that it is housed in a large house, offering very intimate displays. Small rooms mean you can find yourself having to wait to move from one room to another.

It is a journey of discovery, as Kettles Yard contains many amazing contemporary art works including sculptures by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and paintings by Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Joan Miro.

Kettle’s Yard is the vision of Jim and Helen Ede who lived here between 1958-1973. It still retains a very homely ambiance. A former curator at the Tate Gallery, London; Jim Ede set out to postion his chosen artworks beside ceramics, furniture, glass reflecting what he referred to as ‘a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in whic stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability.’