Kettle's Yard House Guidebook

Dr Inga Fraser is a curator and art historian. She is Senior Curator at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, where she has curated displays including In the presence of a common object (2025-26), Mari Mahr: Lili Brik (2025) and Barbara Hepworth: 'a work of mine in your house' (2024-25). Prior to joining Kettle's Yard, she worked as a freelance Curator at Tate Britain on the current exhibition, Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. Her PhD (2016-23) was a collaborative doctoral partnership between Tate and the Royal College of Art that explored artists’ engagement with film in the first half of the 20th century in London, focusing on intermedial practices and the developing discourse of artists’ moving image. Before beginning her PhD, she was Assistant Curator of Modern British Art at Tate (2013-2017) and curated displays including Paule Vézelay (2017) and co-curated exhibitions including Paul Nash (2016) and Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World (2015). Gilbert McCarragher is an artist and photographer, and author of Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House, published by Thames & Hudson. McCarragher is known for his refined architectural and design photography. His images are characterised by their quiet stillness, clarity and use of natural light. Over the past two decades, McCarragher has collaborated with some of the world's leading architects, designers and artists. His work has been published in numerous books and international publications, including El Croquis, Domus and John Pawson Plain Space (2010). As an artist, McCarragher works in multiple photographic mediums and has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Jerwood Space and the Wapping Project.

• Table of Contents:IntroductionA History of Kettle’s YardHouse Guidebook:Entrance HallKitchenSitting and Dining RoomJim Ede’s Bedroom and BathroomBechstein RoomHelen Ede’s Bedroom and BathroomAtticBridgeDancer RoomLinkLandingGalleryLibraryGround Floor 1Ground Floor 2Ground Floor 3Ground Floor 4Ground Floor 5Artist BiographiesAcknowledgements