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7/1/2005

Two exhibitions

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Mary Martin:
The end is always to achieve simplicity

Mary Martin (1907-1969) was one of the most distinguished and influential of a small group of English constructive artists of the 1950s and ‘60s. Her geometric paintings, sculptures, reliefs and drawings explore colour, line and form as basic formal elements. This is the first major exhibition of her work in twenty years.
The exhibition explores her personal and distinctive contribution to modern and contemporary British art. It draws together for the first time a selection of her early paintings and traces her move to abstraction. It also includes her first reliefs and structures and her later Perspex abstract reliefs.
Married to Kenneth Martin, whose ‘Screw Mobile’ hangs in the house at Kettle’s Yard, this exhibition is an opportunity to view their work together, united by their concern for the unfolding and evolving form. Notions of simplicity and order and the work’s affinities with modern architecture make Mary Martin the perfect artist for Kettle’s Yard.
The exhibition is organised by The Culture Company and is on show at Huddersfield Art Gallery before moving to Cambridge.
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Elisabeth Vellacott:
Rock and mountain drawings –
a centenary celebration

Alongside Mary Martin, Kettle’s Yard celebrates the centenary of another woman artist, Elisabeth Vellacott (1905-2002). Her drawings were collected by Jim Ede for Kettle’s Yard but this loan exhibition focuses on the remarkable drawings of rocks and mountains made during summer trips to the Isles of Scilly, the Welsh borders and Anglesey.

Kettle's Yard
Castle Street, CB3 0AQ
Cambridge

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