Top British artists – including Barbara Hepworth, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Bridget Riley – contribute to fundraising sale at Kettle’s Yard
This article titled “Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor donate works to Cambridge gallery” was written by Maev Kennedy, for The Guardian on Monday 21st March 2011 18.54 UTC Work by some of Britain’s best-known 20th-century artists, including Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Barbara Hepworth and Bridget Riley, has been donated by the artists, their estates or collectors to raise funds for an extension to Kettle’s Yard, a small gallery and museum in Cambridge with an international reputation out of all proportion to its size. Hirst has donated a skeleton sculpture, St Avertin Syndrome Charity Spin, and work by Anthony Caro, Maggi Hambling, David Hockney, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Augustus John and Eric Gill is also included. Kettle’s Yard was the home of the late Jim Ede, a curator at the Tate in London who acquired a startling collection of contemporary work, including pieces by Henry Moore, Hepworth and many members of the St Ives school, as gifts from artist friends, or bought cheaply from their studios. He placed the paintings and sculptures among natural objects including driftwood, pebbles and shells, and kept open house every afternoon of the university term, guiding visitors around the works of art which filled every room of his home. One of the visitors was an economics student called Nicholas Serota, now director of the Tate, who has credited Ede with converting him to a life in the arts. In 1966 Ede gave the house and all its contents to the university, and in 1970 an exhibition gallery was added, but a fuller expansion is now planned, including for the first time museum-quality shops, an education centre and a cafe. All the donated works are for sale and are on display at the gallery until 8 May, in an exhibition entitled Artists for Kettle’s Yard.
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