Over the last year, Inga Fraser (Senior Curator of the Kettle’s Yard House & Collection) and I visited various university sites that house works from the wider collection and photographed them in these surroundings - inspired by Louise Lawler, one of the pivotal members of The Pictures Generation. During these visits we were greeted by the works of Hans (Jean) Arp, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Gerard Hemsworth, Elisabeth Vellacott, Alfred Wallis Ethelbert White and more.
© Sid White-Jones - House Bulletin cover.
© Sid White-Jones - Editors note.
For this issue, we sought out Levity 1 (1978) by Tim Head at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, where the large-scale work was out on loan, before it briefly travelled back to Kettle’s Yard for In The Presence of a Common Object, an exhibition of photographic works from the Kettle’s Yard collection exploring ‘how artists have used photography to see the world anew’ with work by: Constantin Brâncuși, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Bohm, Hannah Collins, Craigie Horsfield, Roy Hammans, Sharon Kivland and Nigel Henderson.
Tucked into a small hallway, with just enough room for a table and chair, the image felt especially fitting. Its upturned table and ambiguous rotation echoing the corridor’s compressed proportions.
© Sid White-Jones - 'Tim Head’s ‘Levity 1’ (1978) photographed at CRASSH, 2025.
© Sid White-Jones - An Arrangement of Pictures, page 13.
The third issue of the House Bulletin also featured new texts, each focusing on the archive, from Paul Zuckerman, Rachel Rose Smith, Beth Darbyshire and Mark James.
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